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fact that He lives! And I don’t know of a song
that expresses this wonderful season better
than Gloria Gaither’s “Because He Lives”.
And even though there’s nothing wrong with
the way the song was originally written, you
probably know by now that I like to put a little
different twist to my arrangements.
This song is normally done as a sort of choir
anthem with the big build at the chorus. I
thought you might enjoy a more intimate
arrangement for a nice change this Easter.
The chords are pretty jazzy and the fingerings
are very specific so you’ll need to work on
them for awhile yourself. Then you can hand
the chart out to the rest of the band for a
rehearsal.
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bass, chord, chord’ pattern as indicated in the
first measure of the chart below. An odd catch
to this is that you need to change chords just
before the barline instead of after it like usual.
I think it would really help if you could hear
this played in order to get the idea. So… I’ve
set up a special page at my website where
you can download a quick little audio file of
me playing this arrangement. The chords are
the same for the verse and the chorus, by the
way. I hope you have fun with this and enjoy
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I tell myself it’ll only be 5 minutes. It turns experience to the same way. You suggest
into 20. Then it’s an hour. My wife has been play this S6 sampled the chords, the arpeggiators
warned. She’s learned to expect it. We call grand piano. If you’ve do the rest. Truly astounding. Use
my home studio a black hole at times like felt like a lid was on your the faders and you can scrutinize the
this. No one’s sure when I’ll come out. The expressive potential as a killer drum part you’re hearing. Use the
cause is a big box that UPS dropped at my pianist because of the limits faders and let an arpeggiated synth part
home a few days ago, the very happy day of sampled grand pianos, the be all that you use of the four sounds. The
when Yamaha’s new Motif XF8 keyboard was lid is gone. You’ll love the S6. variety of styles contained in the library of
delivered. The sonic scope of the XF8 is difficult to performances here is staggering. Like I say,
I played the XF8 last Fall on tour with Paul summarize. The string sounds are very count on spending lots of time exploring the
Baloche, Kathryn Scott and Brian Doerksen convincing and feature multi-samples that library and playing. Lots of playing. ‘Til your
as part of Integrity Music’s seminars4worship allow you to play with great expression. arms hurt playing.
and was impressed then. But this is different. Internal voices can be brought out as Spend some time playing the Motif
No rehearsals now, no tearing down after you play. The sound of bows on strings is performances and you’ll find yourself
an event. I can finally dig deep into the undeniable as you strike keys more forcefully rearranging familiar songs and bringing
instrument, scrutinize the sounds and see in the lower register. Again, the weighted new freshness to what you contribute as a
what’s new here. The list of new features is a action helps you exploit the dynamics built keyboard player. Spend some time playing
long one. Here are some bullet points from into the great samples. the S6 grand piano and you could realize
Yamaha’s website: With well over a thousand voices at your very soon that you forgot you’re playing an
• Comprehensive high sound quality, disposal, you’ll need lots of time to listen electronic keyboard rather than a real grand
including an enormous 741MB of through them all. And you’ll want paper and piano. This instrument can remind you why
waveforms a pen on hand to note your favorites. Your it is you love playing keyboard and take you
• An additional 128 voices and 8 drums list will be long. Mine already is after just a to musical places you never thought were
kits, for a total of 1,353 high-quality few hours. possible.
voices
• Reproduction of the unique, natural, After listing your favorites from the
warm sounds of vintage instruments extensive voice library, tap the “perform”
through VCM effects button and you’ll begin to get an even
• 384 types of performances based greater sense of what the XF8 could bring
on approximately 7800 types of to your worship music. Built into the XF
arpeggiators keyboard are 7800 types of arpeggiators.
• improvement of usability thanks to the Start listening through the banks of patches
use of a new GUI in the performance mode and this is when
• Cubase AI – a DAW software application the odds increase that you won’t see your
from Steinberg family for a while. It is mind-boggling to hear
• Scalability through standard-equipped AND play the variety of sounds and effects
USB and Ethernet and the FW16E and textures you’ll find here.
option In the performance mode, 4 distinct sounds
Many of you are like me in that, while are accessible at once. For years I’ve used the
impressed by these and other tech specs performance mode in my live playing setup
of a keyboard, your first question might be so that I can easily fade in and out between
“How’s the piano sound?” Well, the answer the four sounds of my choosing, typically
has two letters. S6. Though there are many grand piano, pad, organ and Rhodes. By
acoustic piano sounds resident in the XF8, using the faders, these four sounds can
I’ll be gravitating toward the S6. Yamaha easily be layered as well, without any sort of
has sampled their exquisite S6 grand piano, cut off in the sound as you change sounds.
and the resulting sound is stunning. I’d been So helpful in live worship.
satisfied with grand piano sounds in the But performances that use arpeggiators
previous models of the Motif, but this S6 take you way beyond what four basic
sound achieves a new level of realism. The sounds can provide. Each of the four sounds
hammer action of the weighted keyboard can trigger arpeggiations to result in super-
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Couples In Ministry: Double
Blessing or Double Trouble
Part 1 - by Rick & Diana Cua
the end all, be all, but a tool to gain greater DON’T BE TERRITORIAL
understanding. And no one test tells it all. So Always remember, you’re a team, not flying
as you choose which test to use, remember solo. There will be times when responsibility
it’s not the sum of who you are. that is usually yours will need to be taken
KEEP YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT care of by the other. Or, you may think you
Not long ago Diana and I had the privilege God has prioritized what is important and can do better in a certain area, but its not
of teaching a class on Couples In Ministry at in what order. He comes first. In Luke 10:27 your responsibility. It happens both ways.
the Christian Musician Summit in Redmond, Jesus says “You shall love the Lord your God Whatever you do don’t turn into Smeagol
Washington. Judging by the turnout, and the with all your heart and with all your soul, the Gollum from Lord of the Rings crying,
questions we were asked, we realized that and with all your strength, and with all your “precious, my precious”.
there was much interest in this topic. With mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Jesus ALWAYS HAVE YOUR SPOUSE’S BACK
Bruce’s invitation we decided to do it for the is quoting Deut 6:5. God really means what Don’t throw your spouse under the bus.
magazine, in two parts. Here’s Part 1: He says. So the Lord God comes first. In Not only is it not a nice place to be, but
fact, isn’t that why you are doing what you you don’t want to be thrown under the bus
are doing; to give glory to God, to walk in either.
Before we talk about some challenges and obedience to His calling for your life, and to
guiding principles related to this topic here be an instrument to advance the Kingdom There is power in agreement. Ecc 4:9-12
are some of the wonderful benefits of couples of God. says “two are better than one because they
working together in ministry. First, you will have a good return for their labor.” How
have a lot of time together. For most of us, Your second priority is your spouse. much more is this true for the two who are
our work/ministry takes us away from home Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the married!
and many times from our spouses and family. church. Wives be subject to your husbands
as to the Lord. (Eph 5:22) Love one another. Working together requires trust. Trust that
Working together we have the opportunity
Ministry never comes before your marriage. you will do your part, trust that the other
to share many experiences while gaining
If it does, there will be a high price to pay. will do their part, and trust that God will do
many mutual memories. We also get to share
Your third priority is your children, who are His part. FYI: God always does His part, so
a common vision and work together toward
gifts from God. it’s really on you two. When you trust each
the same goal. It is very rewarding. OK…here
other, then you have peace of mind and
we go… THEN, it’s ministry. If you do not live in peace of heart. You will get much further
TAKE A PERSONALITY TEST God’s order, then you are out of order and down the road of ministry together than
your life and your work will suffer for it in alone.
One of the best things couples can do some way, shape or form.
before starting to work together is to take a We are imperfect human beings living in
personality test. I’m sure you both know what These priorities are all worked out as the a fallen world. We will mess up! Know it,
your personality is and that of your husband motive of your hearts, being in agreement remember it, and make a plan to deal with it.
or wife. But taking the test may dig out as a couple and as a family.
In the next issue we will continue with more
something you didn’t know about yourself Have a statement of purpose for your thoughts on how to make working together
or your spouse. Taking the time to answer ministry. This helps to keep you on track. wonderful!
questions about yourself makes you take a
Everything you do in ministry should
good hard look, which we all need from time
revert back to this mission
to time.
statement. If you don’t have
As we mature, the things we thought of as a one, work on it together.
weakness may actually be strength when seen Keep it simple and make
from a different perspective. sure it covers what you both
Something happens when you look at believe you are called to.
things on paper. The results can give you a You will use it for years to
springboard to discuss and understand each come. It may need tweaking
other’s strengths and weaknesses. Then when from time to time based on
you are working together you are not likely what new revelation God is
to expect your spouse to be responsible for giving you. And don’t fret
something where he/she is the weakest. You if it changes….Proverbs
both will find greater productivity with less 29:18 says “Where there
friction. That does not come by just taking the is no vision, the people
test but by taking the results of the test and perish…” Some translations
unpacking it together. say, “Without revelation, or
without prophetic vision,
Also, keep in mind a personality test is not the people perish.
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and he had politely asked me if it was OK for him to stop by
and pay a visit to Phil while he was in the area. I asked Phil
and he replied,”Have you ever seen Benny play his special
guitar?” I replied, “Nope, I’m sorry. I have never heard of the
guy”. Phil wanted to see him, so sure enough later that day
this small statured Indian looking man can up and introduced
himself to me. He had a humble spirit about him and he was very
courteous. I checked out his guitar too, wow, it was wild. He had cut holes
in his guitar and had implanted small bongo like drums into the guitar’s top. What I
carry with me though from that encounter is Benny’s friendly smile. Read on about this
remarkable “musicianary”.
CM: First, how did you come to know useless I still need you. I can transform your system was failing, and I started to develop
the Lord in India? That seems rare in life and make you a New Creation.” I heeded rheumatoid arthritis. Today, although these
itself. the call and asked Jesus to come into my life, physical ailments still are a challenge, God’s
I was born in a Christian family, but going to even though I had nothing to offer other grace has been more than sufficient for me
church was only a tradition. I grew up going than my broken and shameful life. That’s to face them, and He has sustained me each
to Sunday school and church meetings. when I really started to walk a Christian Life. day, for His power has been made perfect in
Part of the Indian Culture was that, being CM: You had some serious health my weakness.
the first born in the family, I had to try and challenges when you were younger. Tell My desire to travel was never my plan. In
live up to my father’s expectations. My Dad us how that has affected you, and how it fact, due to being a failure academically, I
was an aerospace scientist and I failed all has impacted your desire to travel and was told that I would never fly. It was in 2002
his expectations, and very soon I became share your music and your story. that God gave me the vision to travel to
the shame and curse of my family. At 16 I was born with asthma, and when I was 2 every nation and share His love through my
years old, feeling hopeless and depressed, years old I was given the wrong medication Testimony and Music. I heeded the call, and
I contemplated committing suicide. During and ended up taking high dosages of He has provided everything for me to make
that time I attended a Christian Youth Cortisone steroids for 14 years. At age 16 it through.
Retreat and on the second day I heard the I found out that due to the steroids, 60% of Yes, health concerns have restricted a bit of
voice of Jesus saying, “Even though you feel my lungs had been damaged. My immune my travels and music ministry, but honestly,
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there that makes you think, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
This year my top 5 picks were pretty easy to select because I was so excited about each one
of them. I try and do a mix of items across the board but sometimes the products just about
select themselves because they are, in one way or another, breaking new ground in and of
themselves.
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First up is the Gen 16 cymbals made by team / band to mix their in-ears to their the signature patch via the mini-USB
Zildjian. These were so unusual that Zildjian liking. What is ground breaking about as new patches are added. Way cool!
even had a different booth for them across this new product is that some of the Hall of Fame Reverb: $149
the aisle from their regular exhibit space. same guys who designed the popular Shaker Vibrato: $129
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quieter than usual. Why is this so important onto something. Not only that but it is see full-length product reviews of
to many of our drummer buddies playing in made in America! each of my “5 Cool Things I Saw
churches? Well, because 50% of all digital PM-16 mixer price: $399 @ NAMM”. Already in the March/
drums (electronic kits) sold go to churches. IM-16 input module: $599 April issue of Worship Musician you
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hitting a rubber cymbal just doesn’t do it for Grand Theatre acoustic guitar. An
drummers. My third item was found almost by offset sound-hole, cantilevered
mistake. I was hanging out in the neck and high end tone-
TC Electronic booth and I saw a woods make this guitar more
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what these new effect pedals can see why it made my list.
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The Gen 16 cymbals look as cool as they well. This gives you two settings
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Aimee Herd: Kirk, just so we can get a By the time I was in high school, I was taking metal band up in New York City, so I moved
picture of where you’re coming from, can every drug I could find. I was drinking a up there and played with those guys—
you give us a little background of the events lot and stealing money from my father for getting even deeper into all types of drugs.
prior to, and leading up to the time when drugs. I was constantly picked on. Even There are things I did that I don’t even want
God really got a hold of you? teachers made fun of me—I was the joke to talk about, but I had gotten myself in
Kirk Martin: Well, it’s a little hard to of the school. At one point, some jocks trouble to where I needed to leave New
pinpoint. I was raised in a good Lutheran cornered me and smacked me around. I York right away or I was going to end up in
home with parents who did everything they was so humiliated that I went home and got a pine box.
knew to be right; they did the best they my father’s gun and brought it to school—I I moved back to Michigan and cut my
could with what they were given. There was going to shoot those boys in the head. hair. I went to work at a store stocking
were just some unfortunate circumstances Strangely enough, just before the third hour, groceries, because I was afraid for my life.
that put me in a position where I started another kid who was also a drug dealer After a while, I met some more guys who
making bad choices. There was always a came up to me and said, “Man, I heard that had already started a metal band, but their
big rift between my father and myself. I was you brought a gun to school; the principal singer/guitar player was a flake. So, I joined
the fourth child in the family. I think he was and vice principal are on their way right the band in the winter of 1989, and within
done after child #3, but then I came along. now to pull you out of this next class with an just a short period of time, we became one
I was a very rambunctious, off-the-hook officer. Is it true?” I said, “Yeah,” and traded of the biggest bands in Michigan, for our
kind of kid. He was struggling with some him some drugs for the gun, which he put in genre. The deeper I got into the music, the
things himself (like making peace with God) the trunk of his car. To this day, those jocks darker I became, with more and more hate.
but unfortunately, his frustration and anger have no idea how lucky they are that they’re The music morphed from what it had been,
came out on me. I ended up taking that out still alive. into me singing about “stealing souls from
on myself as well as others. I went down a very dark road and began God.”
At one point, when I was young, a couple living a very hateful and perverse lifestyle. One of our most popular songs was called
of boys who were much older than I was, Y’see I used to think that God was behind “Molded Mind”. There’s a line in it that says,
molested me. They told me I’d better not all the bad things that happened to me. I “...alone it seems the only thing that I can
tell my parents because they [my parents] joined the Army and was kicked out with an feel, and the dreams will pass in vain of the
would hate me, and that God would be honorable discharge my 6th week, because I many souls that I will steal.”
mad. Shortly after, I went to church and was mentally unstable.
AH: Wow... creepy.
heard how “God loves you,” but also that After more friction with my father, I went
He “sometimes punishes those He loves.” to Virginia Beach, where my car was stolen. KM: Real creepy! Well, we put some bunks
So, I was trying to sort through all of this as I ended up homeless and having to steal, in a bus and started traveling, and ended
a young man. I grew up thinking the Lord fight, and do whatever it took to survive. up in Florida. Things were starting to really
was angry with me and that I had done open up for us, but then a couple of guys
AH: Kirk, at what point did you put left the band. They didn’t tell me ‘til later,
something wrong. Later, I found out I was together the metal band you were in?
adopted, which brought more feelings of but they were literally scared. I was so filled
rejection, loss and confusion. KM: I met a couple guys who were in a with hate; I was carrying a gun everywhere
had our eyes on him during the conference. on the worship projects, and we had a baby.
KM: I kept talking about her with Jonathan But, I kept telling him, “Kirk, I think you need
Blessings and others backstage at the conference. But to work on that metal project. I really think
Raindrops
through the
when it came to talking TO her, I didn’t know God’s going to use you in that area as well as
what to say. She had me completely tongue- the worship.” It never really came to fruition
tied and I hadn’t even talked to her yet! until just recently.
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heaven?!” Marriage, three children and 8 understand what to do and why.” The music
years later, we’ve literally led thousands of [on the metal project] is solid, and the
people to Christ together. lyrics are 100 percent Christ-centered. It’s
Lesley had never even sung before, and I all about telling the world about God, and
threw her in front of a microphone... telling the metal community what God did
for me.
LM: I’d been playing keyboards for a
few years before I met Kirk. But we’d just LM: It’s not “Christian metal” per se; it’s
sit in the living room, even before we were metal about Christ.
married and play and sing...and just worship. KM: Here’s the mind-blowing thing about
AH: So, do you two write together then? it: when I had been a Christian for about
three years, I was out in Colorado Springs.
LM: Yes. Pastor Mark Cowart of Church for All Nations
KM: A lot of times, I’ll be sitting there with called me out of the congregation—I was
my guitar and something will come to me. I’ll just a visitor that night, he didn’t even know
say, “Les, grab a paper and pencil and write me. He said that there would be “millions
this down!” I write most of the music part of of young people who were waiting to hear
the songs, and I use some alternative tunings your voice.” He said that they wouldn’t
that are really off-the-hook and uncommon. listen to someone else’s voice but, when the
It makes playing keyboards very difficult for time was right, God would release me and
Lesley. they would hear my voice and my story,
and know that I’d been with God and that
LM: (Laughing) I know when it’s a “Kirk” God is with me. He said that young people
chord. would hear this and come to Christ. Now,
KM: It’s funny; you always hear the joke here it is 17 years later, and God has opened
about “you complete me.” But with Lesley, up the doors for me—besides the beautiful
it’s true. I’ll be so stuck on one thing and worship music that Lesley and I write—to do
unable to get away from it no matter what I this metal project too.
do. And, Lesley will just have that—God will
give her that moment in the music, or the
lyric that completes the song. We’ve been Kirk Martin plays Taylor acoustic guitars
told so many times that there is a “glory” that exclusively, and uses uses Kyser Musical
shows up when we minister. Products, EMG pickups, Jackson electric
guitars, and Dean Markley strings. Lesley
LM: Something tangible... uses Yamaha keyboards.
KM: We’ve seen people get healed For more information on Kirk and Lesley
physically, emotionally and mentally. People Martin, and to purchase their music, log
who, after hearing our music and my story, onto: www.MusicforHarvest.com
came up and told us that they too were
molested, but that this was their day to get
free and be healed.
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A Christian Musician’s
Legacy
By Bryan Duncan
A Christian musician before the phrase was He loved Western style swing, the kind Roy
coined, my dad, Reverend Daniel R. Duncan, Rogers might have sung. He liked inside chord
passed away at 78. I’m thinking rpm’s on an movement too with that jazz flavor.
LP. I’m his first born and I had the privilege He never said much about the changes
of sitting at his right hand as he struggled to in popular music, as he watched my style
finish his life. Seven years after the onslaught preferences replace his own in church. He saw
of Alzheimer’s, and two years spent recovering them fade, too. He stopped playing music
from a stroke. “Nobody should have to live like in church because his style of music was no
this,” he said just two months ago. longer the hip way to “worship.” disgruntled with the “newbies” because they
I had my questions about the final years of So what do we pass on with regard to our don’t hear a “demolished thirteen” in the chord
this Godly musician, “rewarded” by some sort passions? When the dross is burned away, structure. Thank God, you can feel His foot on
of banishment, relegated to near helplessness what still stands? Hopefully not just some label the sustain pedal of your own instrument. We
and dependency on others for the smallest of what we were into, some brand name like don’t get to choose who will resonate with
details of life. I wondered about the frightening “Pentecostal Polka.” In some circles, “Christian” what we play or how it will affect them. But
experience of slowly losing the things you are in front of “musician” tends to banish you what a gift to communicate to ourselves the
good at – in his case, assembling words and from a list of the best even without a stroke. love we feel from the master musician.
insights. But then, I trust God and follow Jesus Suspicions are that perhaps your popularity is I don’t play anything like my dad would have
Christ because my dad did! merely a plank in the party platform of another played it. I can, however, feel his influence. It’s
Alzheimer’s scrambles your thought process, agenda. Because downloads aren’t available, that classic musician’s sense of nonconformity
keeps you from communicating to anyone I’m not even sure King David would be a big to all that is unoriginal. And I know that God
but God himself in most cases. I found it draw these days as a harpist, except maybe in smiles at even the most dissonant of chords in
interesting, though, that the musical side of the Portland area! my efforts when I’m focused on resonating with
my dad’s brain was intact till the day he died. Music is a wonderful thing that God hands out the gift I have found from Him. God knows the
Just a few months ago, he sat at the piano and to anyone who receives. And He has the gall to music that is my life. And I follow Jesus because
played and sang “Heaven, I’m Going There.” give it to people who don’t even acknowledge he will resolve and sustain that music.
Him in the slightest. Does I heard a wonderful sermon once about trying
our legacy come down to identify a song when you can only hear the
to our expertise? Is it in harmony part. It’s almost impossible to tell
our ability to impress without the melody line. In fact, a harmony
the masses, or to fit in might not even sound cohesive to itself. Heaven
with the giant “cover will hold a symphony of stacked harmony parts
tune” that is blanketing the like that. Harmony’s to God’s melody. And we
mainstream? will, upon hearing it, understand the part God
has asked us to play in it.
I found myself a little
miffed that after fifty So I say here’s the legacy: Keep yourself in
years of service to God, tune, and play the grace notes God has written
my dad had little in the out and placed in front of you, trusting where
way of acknowledgement. God has placed you in the orchestra. It’s
Until God spoke to me probably off to the left in the reed section.
and said, the reward is Your part might not even make sense to you,
that I gave your dad a but man, listen to that tone! We are Christian
passion that took him musicians because we have a music director,
through his whole life! booking agent, and road manager all wrapped
It was specific and came up in one. Keep playing one gig at a time until
out in his interpretation God finishes the packaging and adds the shrink
of music. I put a melody wrap.
in his heart that never
ceased to sustain through
the worst of hardships. He Bryan Duncan... CCM artist for
worshipped me with his thirty years. With the Sweet
life! It’s the most original Comfort Band, then solo and
concerto anyone can ever now with the Nehosoul band.
write!
Owner of Red Road Records and
If you have moved Host of Radio Rehab at www.
beyond the same four radiorehab.com inducted into the Christian music Hall of
chords and seven words
we use in church, don’t be Fame in 2007.