Music To Pray By

This podcast, I used the songs, "Came to My Rescue" and "I Will Exalt". Since I actually recorded this podcast over a month ago, I had to refer to planning center for the song names. Interesting fact: this podcast contains 16,782 notes, and I probably touched 80-90% of them during the editing process. :-) I either need to learn how to play better or be less picky about timing issues. I hope you en...

It's finally finished! The songs used are mostly original. I did play a familiar melody at the tail end. Most of it is a little more fast-paced than the norm. May you continue to be inspired to pray through my offering of worship to our wonderful Creator. To Him be the glory!

This week we had Wednesday Night worship at The Connection Church so I used quite a few songs from that service - "Mighty To Save", "Came To My Rescue", and "Awakening", a new worship song by Chris Tomlin that is pretty awesome. Be sure to check it out if you haven't heard it yet. A couple originals are included as well. One was from a previous podcast. I'm still on a quest for the perfect piano m...

I used only one song this podcast. It’s by Robbie Seay, and it’s called “Crazy Love”. The rest is original. This podcast is actually a second take since the first didn’t record properly. I always thought recording to MIDI would eliminate having to re-record podcasts, but not true. I did learn that the Disklavier does not like any kind of MIDI signal coming into it when recording so hopefully this...

I used two songs from last week’s service for today’s podcast – “Forever Reign”, and “God You Reign”. The rest is original. I used a different acoustic piano sample for editing the MIDI this week, and it actually disguised a lot of the small timing issues which is good and bad. The good is it took me half the time to edit (~4 hours instead of ~8). The bad is I notice them when playing back on the...

We did a new song called "Our God" by Chris Tomlin in church last week, and it's a beautiful song so that's what I started this podcast with. The rest is somewhat original. A familiar melody came to mind towards the end, but I couldn't pinpoint where it came from. Feel free to leave a comment if you recognize it.

This week I used a new song we played at church called “Came to My Rescue”. It is a wonderful worship song and it would be worthwhile to check out the lyrics if you haven’t heard them before. I also played “Amazing Love” and “You are My King”. The rest is original. Even though I didn’t spend as much time fixing timing issues as the last podcast, I did spend most of the weekend editing. I hope and...

I used new mics and new mic placements for this podcast, and have to say, this may be the best podcast yet in my opinion. God is so good! It is such a huge blessing an honor to be serving Him in this way. Everything but the beginning of the last song is original. Pray without ceasing!

It seems like ages ago that the last podcast was posted even though it's only been 4 weeks. The piano was recently tuned and is sounding wonderful. I've had this podcast ready for a while now. There were some issues with the sustain pedal after we got the technical problems resolved so I had to fine-tune the sustain MIDI data in a number of locations, which may be noticeable in some places. You'll...

Merry Christmas! Well, this is the place to come when you're burnt out on all the Christmas music being played everywhere. I had planned on adding a Christmas song or two, but that didn't work out. Everything this week is original.

This week is all original since the church set list is pretty much all Christmas music. There were a couple that weren't Christmas songs, but they weren't really appropriate. Well, maybe one was. I guess I might do it for the next podcast since the set lists for the rest of the month are going to be full of Christmas songs.

A podcast subscriber suggested recording without the usual increase in dynamics so I gave it a shot. My wife has actually suggested this as well a while back. I hope you enjoy it. I used the following songs: "Real", "I Will Rise", "Healer", "None but Jesus", and one melody I don't recall the song it came from. It wasn't really planned. I hope you have a wonderful Thanks Giving!

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...