The Worship Keys Podcast

Watch on YouTube Carson welcomes back “Spooky” Scott Miller of Red Rocks Church to share how his team uses aux keys to create a fuller, more dynamic worship experience. Scott shares practical tips on using synths, pads, and keyboard layers, controlling tracks with TouchOSC, and reducing reliance on backing tracks. He also explains how churches can get started with aux keys on a budget and why comm...

Watch on YouTube  Let's talk with Micah Weber of Red Rocks Worship about Experience Conference 2026, his PT calling, and prophetic worship keys moments.  Micah recaps Red Rocks Worship’s recent pace after releasing Promised Land, touring, then taking time off before campus worship nights and Experience Conference 2026 in Orlando. At the conference, the band led a session and Micah joined a pa...

Watch on YouTube Part 2 is here with Josh Brown. In this episode, Josh takes viewers behind the scenes of building a complete keys and stems arrangement for I Thank God, walking through his production process from foundational pads to layered synths, leads, drones, orchestral elements, and other finishing touches. Along the way, he demonstrates MIDI editing and quantization techniques while sharin...

Watch the full episode Josh Brown returns to break down how he builds worship stems in Logic Pro X using Maverick City Music’s “I Thank God” as the foundation. From loops and guide tracks to transitions and arrangement ideas, he shares practical techniques to help your worship team sound tighter and more intentional. More than a production tutorial, this conversation explores why excellence is the...

Thanks to our Sponsor: Aerospace Audio Watch on YouTube Roger Ryan  Producer/arranger Roger Ryan joins Carson Bruce to discuss how the music business has shifted from label-driven support to indie entrepreneurship, with artist development now often missing as more people self-produce with laptops.  They compare the pros and cons of being signed versus independent, including owning masters but carr...

Watch on YouTube Carson Bruce continues a music theory series on the Worship Keys podcast, moving beyond last week’s circle of fifths episode into passing chords. He explains secondary dominants (the “five of” the next chord) using a memorization tool called the “musical phone number” 736-2514, derived from the circle of fifths, to help choose what chord can precede another in a progression. In C,...

What is the circle of 5ths? How is it used in context? Why is it important?  Let me teach this from a simple beginner perspective and how to apply it to piano playing in a church/worship context.  Aerospace Audio Support the show Thanks for listening! Subscribe here to the podcast, as well as on YouTube and other social media platforms. If you have any questions or suggestions for who you want as...

Watch on YouTube Carson Bruce welcomes Garrett Miller back to The Worship Keys podcast for a behind-the-scenes look at how The Choir Room captures and mixes live recordings. Garrett shares how the production has grown from a simple recording setup to larger, multi-night events with expanded inputs, advanced microphone techniques, and more detailed tracking for choir, band, drums, and guest musicia...

Watch on YouTube Join us for a full studio tour with Garrett Miller as he takes us behind the scenes of his home studio setup. From keyboards, synths, and microphones to recording workflows and creative processes, Garrett shares practical insights on building a studio that inspires creativity and serves the music. Whether you're a worship musician, producer, audio engineer, or gear enthusiast...

Watch on YouTube Let's visit The Choir Room in Nashville for a short surprise bonus Worship Keys Podcast episode!  Marcus Perry explains how each Choir Room gathering is different, emphasizes planning while leaving room for the Holy Spirit, compares the community-style format to church services, and details his live setup: CP88, Hammond B3 with Leslie, and a MacBook Pro running Logic Pro, Mai...

Watch on YouTube This new update adds an in-app click/metronome. Let's demonstrate building a setlist with different keys, pad textures, tempos, time signatures, click accents, and multiple click sounds, then test moving through songs while playing along.  Thanks for being a part!  Aerospace Audio Support the show Thanks for listening! Subscribe here to the podcast, as well as on YouTube and...

Watch on YouTube Let's unbox and demo the Aerospace Audio Atmosphere pedal Version 3 on the Worship Keys podcast, comparing it to Version 2.  Version 3’s redesigned layout has fewer buttons, two screens, USB-C power capability, an added expression pedal input, updated MIDI connection, and a microSD card slot for loading custom drone pad files.  Let's demo the new tonality options (major,...

Watch on YouTube Let's welcome Otto Gross to The Worship Keys as he takes us behind the scenes of Christ Church Nashville's worship setup and shares the heart behind the gear. More than a gear breakdown, Otto offers practical wisdom on maximizing what you already have, embracing creativity through limitations, and keeping technology focused on one purpose: leading people into God's...

Watch on YouTube Join us as Carson sits down with Ryan Loche, co-founder of The Church Collective and professor at The Belonging Co. College and Liberty University, to answer a question many worship musicians wrestle with: Is worship ministry school worth it? They discuss the value of formal education, when experience may be enough, and why growing as a worship leader is about more than earning a...

Watch on YouTube In Part 2 of our conversation with Clark Beckham, we go beyond chord substitutions and dive into the heart behind worship reharmonization. Clark shares why reharmonizing worship songs should never be about sounding impressive but about drawing closer to God and expressing worship in a more meaningful way. He also walks through his unique arrangements of How Great Is Our God and Gr...

Watch on YouTube   Clark Beckham Breaks Down Reharmonization for “Goodness of God” + “Great Are You Lord” on today's episode! Don't miss it! Aerospace Audio Sponsor Clark's chord charts and resources can be found in the YouTube description!  Support the show Thanks for listening! Subscribe here to the podcast, as well as on YouTube and other social media platforms. If you have any q...

YouTube Let's talk and demonstrate the Nashville Number System, with its origins in Nashville studios in the 1950s–60s with the Jordanaires as a shorthand for quickly notating chord progressions (e.g., C–G–Am–F as 1–5–6–4).  So much value for worship teams and professional musicians, especially for transposing on the fly, improving rehearsal efficiency, and strengthening ear training.  Aerosp...

Another episode with Josh Dunn, recorded in his studio, where we discuss the real cost of producing a song from start to finish. Josh shares what goes into a music production budget, from pre-production and session musicians to mixing and mastering, and explains how a clear vision can help artists spend wisely. He also talks about common mistakes, the role of AI in music production, and realistic...

Join us as we sit down with producer, songwriter, and worship pastor Josh Dunn for an inspiring conversation on the Worship Keys Podcast. Josh shares the story behind his vintage rescued Baldwin upright piano, his sound design secrets for getting that raw authentic tone, and an honest take on AI and Suno in worship music today. We talk creativity, authenticity, and what it means to stay true to yo...

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Watch on YouTube  Join Shane and Makayla of 11th Hour Worship as they sit down with Carson Bruce on The Worship Keys Podcast for a conversation that goes way beyond music. From a calling that started in high school to a John the Baptist "prepare the way" mission, Shane and Makayla open up about hiddenness, character, and obedience as the real foundation of worship leading. They dig into...

Watch On YouTube Jeremy Caruthers joins The Worship Keys Podcast to share the wildest recording stories you have never heard. Jeremy Caruthers joins The Worship Keys Podcast to share the wildest recording stories you have never heard. From capturing an entire album in one night after a Guatemalan volcano derailed his plans, to syncing a multi-truck Arctic session using nothing but an FM transmitte...

Watch on YouTube  Carson Bruce wraps up the piano sample library tutorial series by showing how to move a finished Logic Pro X Sampler patch into MainStage for live performance. He walks through locating and copying the patch from the Logic user library, pasting it into the MainStage patches folder, and loading it into MainStage. He also demonstrates how the patch works in perform mode and explain...

Watch on YouTube Go behind the scenes with Carson Bruce as he breaks down the process of building a custom piano sample library inside Logic Pro. From organizing samples and velocity layers to programming release triggers, pedal sounds, and multi-mic setups, this episode is packed with practical tips for producers, worship musicians, and sound designers looking to create more realistic virtual ins...

Watch on YouTube  In this episode, Carson Bruce introduces his newly released piano sample library featuring five sampled pianos with both regular and felt versions across 10 unique patches. He also begins a new series showing the full process of building a piano sample library from scratch. From recording setups and microphone choices to piano selection and room acoustics, Carson shares the essen...