Music To Pray By

I used "Jesus Saves, "All I Need is You", and "Give Me Faith" this week. Again, I had the mic / audio interface problem, but I didn't discover it till it was too late so no second-take this time. I tried to compensate by automating the pan, but it's still not like I'd like it. This issue also caused me to use a bit more compression than I'd normally use. Hope it's not too much of a distraction. I'...

I used the following songs: “Your Grace is Enough”, “King of Glory”, and sort of used the chord progressions of ”Own Little World”. Once again, there ended up being a lot of timing issues in this podcast. Can’t wait to get the Disklavier. That will make timing much less of an issue. This podcast is actually a second take. My first take got botched for some strange reason. The left channel kept fad...

Happy 10-10-10! Did you know that in some areas, the number of people getting married today is 10 times the norm! I happen to be at one of those weddings today. My best bud since the 7th grade is getting married! It was really hard to leave my wonderful wife with our 4-day-old son, Jacob, and our 2-year-old Sanban, but thankfully my mom is there to help out while I’m gone. At any rate, this podcas...

There are quite a few familiar melodies from previous podcasts in this one. The only song I sort of used was "Your Love is Amazing". I didn't spend as much time editing this week since I kind of ran out of time. Yoko and I just hit our eleventh anniversary, which is really exciting. We went out to eat at our favorite restaurant and sort of took it easy this weekend. I hope this week's podcast is a...

I didn't get to spend as much time as I would have liked editing this podcast, but I think it still turned out okay. I'll be out all day on Sunday for a Soundwave gig in Waco so I had to get everything done on Saturday. I only used the song "Jesus Saves" at the end. The rest is original - some melodies may even sound a little familiar from previous podcasts. I pray it inspires you to draw near to...

This podcast, I used "Beautiful The Blood" and "You'll Come". The rest of it is original. I tried some different editing and mixing tools so it may sound a little different than previous podcasts. I hope this isn't distracting.

The following songs were used in this podcast - "Tear Down The Walls", "Your Name High", and the Soundwave original that we just recorded in the studio, "Confidence". There are some original melodies as well. I feel like this podcast turned out really well. I hope you enjoy it.

The only familiar song used was "Glory to God", and I mixed in some original stuff. There are some pieces of some new Soundwave songs that'll be on the next album we're working on currently. The rest is original - there might be a familiar melody or two.

The only familiar song used was "Glory to God", and I mixed in some original stuff. There are some pieces of some new Soundwave songs that'll be on the next album we're working on currently. The rest is original - there might be a familiar melody or two.

The following songs were used in this podcast: "Your Grace Is Enough", "Marvelous Light", "Sing, Sing, Sing", and "This is the Air I Breathe". Throughout recording, the mic placement changed slightly so there are some noticeable variances in the tone. The next podcast will have a more consistent tone throughout since I believe I've found the "sweet spot".

Felt a little rusty recording this one after 6 months off. It's great to be back at it. There's a pretty even mix of original melodies and contemporary songs like "God You Reign", and "God Of This City".

I Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We certainly did hanging out with the family. I just realized that we didn't take any pictures. We really need to designate someone to do that next time we get together because there are so many memories to be captured. This is the last podcast of 2009, and it is all original. I hope you enjoy it.

This podcast, I used a completely different setup to record. I'll blog more about it later. I used a number of familiar tunes. It was basically our set list for church this Sunday, and I think it turned out okay. There are some sounds in the background that got picked up by my new setup in the beginning, but they shouldn't be too distracting. I hope this podcast inspires you to spend more time in...

I decided to change the naming from "week" to "podcast" since these will no longer be weekly. However, I will attempt to record one every other week. This podcast was actually recorded last Monday, but I wasn't able to finish editing and mastering till this evening. The only recognizable song used is "Revelation Song" which I think I've done a few times. I also had issues with the R-09HR so I'm ab...

This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but it has been a very busy weekend. I thought that after the exam, I'd have a lot more time to do stuff, but that certainly is not the case. At any rate, it was certainly a change in pace to sit down at the freshly tuned grand piano and worship for 30 minutes. I played a number of familiar melodies, but they're all kind of mixed together so I won't try to...

This day last year was my first post to the Music To Pray By Blog and now, a year later, there have been close to 30,000 downloads of 16 hours of recorded piano music to pray by. This is truly a God thing. This week was kind of a half-way point between when I started really studying for the CCIE and the dredded date of October 2nd so I took a break. Since mid-May, I've put in right at 300 hours of...

During this podcast, I used the songs: "Hosanna", "Mighty to Save", and a new song called "Forever". We're doing it for the first time at church tomorrow. It's a great song and it's not the one yall might be familiar with - it just happens to have the same title. Some of the songs are repeats, but we've done them recently at church and it just seemed right. It was truly a joy to sit down at the gr...

This one is a little longer than usual. I just didn't feel like stopping. I used a number of familiar melodys and chord progressions in this week's podcast. I hope you enjoy it.

The bi-weekly podcast is here. I decided to get it done today so that I can focus on studying for the CCIE tomorrow after church and group. I missed the "record" button again. I ended up playing for over an hour today so that I'd have something to post. The first 30 minutes may have been a little better than the later 30 due to a little bit of frustration after realizing the first 30 minutes didn'...

I've gotta make this quick - Don is out there working hard without me and has been for the past couple of hours while I finish up this week's podcast. I used a few songs from Sunday morning service - "You Said", and "There will be a day". I also used a Soundwave song since we had practice on Friday. Live free! Pray hard!

Sunday morning worship was awesome this morning! We had a new guitar player who rocked the house! What a great sermon by Cole too! This week, I did some familiar songs: "Revelation Song", "Love Story", "Abba Father", and "Here I am to Worship", and all I can say is what a wonderful way to end a great weekend. I had loads of fun chillin' with the 'lil one while Yoko took a much needed break with he...

Keeping it short this week - I used the songs "I Can Only Imagine", and "God of this City". I know I've played these songs before, but we did them at church today so I decided to do them again. God bless!

Sorry about getting this posted a little late. I recorded it this afternoon after church, but had to head over to the Petreas for our small group Super Bowl Bash. It was a blast, but left a little early so I could mix and post the MTPB blog. This week I used the songs "Audience of One", "Your Name", and "None but Jesus" all of which we played during this Sunday morning worship service which turned...

I don't know where to begin. This week was almost a no go because of work, but I just couldn't miss another week of Music to Pray By even though I missed Soundwave practice yesterday and church today because of the network outages and hardware failures we've been having all weekend... At any rate, this week was all original, and runs a little more than 30 minutes - I hope it inspires you to spend...

This week I used the chord progressions of some of the songs we played today for worship. I used a different position for the R-09HR, which caused it to pick up more from the sound board rather than the strings.