Sunday, February 26, 2012

Friday, May 20, 2011

May 20

Well, I did some singing along with Nancy Honeytree. The song-Pioneer. Does this count as music practice? Well, if it doesn't, it should! :)

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Hmmm...

Yeah, I know. It's been a long time. Hoping to dust off the tinwhistles soon. (Cross fingers.)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Revelation Song



Revelation Song

Verse 1:
D2 Am7 C2 G
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, holy, holy is He
D2 Am7
Sing a new song to Him who sits on
C2 G
Heaven�s mercy seat


Chorus:
D2 Am7
Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord, God Almighty
C2 G
Who was and is and is to come
D2 Am7
With all creation I sing, "Praise to the King of Kings!"
C2 G
You are my everything and I will adore You


Verse 2:
D2 Am7
Clothed in rainbows of living color
C2 G
Flashes of lightening rolls of thunder
D2 Am7
Blessing and honor, strength and glory and power be
C2 G
To You, the only wise King


Verse 3:
D2 Am7
I�m filled with wonder, awestruck wonder
C2 G
At the mention of Your name
D2 Am7
Jesus, Your name is power, breath and Living Water
C2 G
Such a marvelous mystery

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Monday, January 4, 2010

Monday, December 14, 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

Yea! Music!

Tinwhistle
Morrison's
Guitar (and singing)
Psalm 62
Fiddle
Cripple Creek
Vocal
Emmanuel

Feels good to practice again!

Another good song. She has a crazy voice...

Emmanuel...

Jordan and I are singing this at church on Dec. 13. I'm hoping he'll sing the lead and I'll do the background. Good song!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

a quick practice...

My callouses are getting wimpy, but I did go through:

Beautiful Blood
Hiding Place
Take Me In
My Savior, My God

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sunday...

Guitar

Take Me In
You Are My Hiding Place
Beautiful Blood

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Doing a little fiddling...

I haven't practiced the fiddle since Sept. 21st! So...

Fiddle

Old Joe Clark
Cripple Creek
Bilem Cabbage Down
Ida Red

Well, I can still get through them, but I'm not getting anything memorized so far. I'm not going to beat myself up about that because this is just a HOBBY...for FUN! And for some reason it IS fun, even when I don't seem to make much progress.

Guitar

Take Me In
You Are My Hiding Place
Pioneer
My Savior, My God
Beautiful Blood

Just enjoying playing these contemplatively. Now I'm going to listen to "Crimson Stream" and "Psalm 62" instead of trying to play them, because I'm all played out!

Adding a video of Leeland teaching "Enter This Temple" on New Song Cafe.


Shalom!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Some progress...

I have to be content with small steps of progress. Real life just doesn't allow me time to sit and play the guitar, fiddle and whistle for hours at a time every day, which is what one must do to be a good musician. So, I enjoy the small steps...

Guitar

I was a little frustrated at the sloppy, scribbled lyrics and chords I had for "Crimson Stream" and "Psalm 62", so I took the time to find good versions online and printed them out. I found lyrics for "Psalm 62" in one place and good "chord cheats" to make it easier for me to play in another place, so I spent a good deal of time typing the chords in over the lyrics in Wordpad. It worked out really slick and I attached copies of the chord diagrams for the "cheat" chords. Ready to really practice!

Played through both of these songs several times.

Fiddle

Played "Old Joe Clark" a couple of times.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Crimson Stream by Paul Oakley...

Psalm 62...

Guitar

I began to work on the chords from "Psalm 62" by Aaron Keyes. Not easy since he has more of a classical style on this song and plays lots of individual notes rather than chords. But he did mention some chords, so I'm working from there. I may look online for chords also.

I also went through "My Savior, My God" and "Beautiful Blood".

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Sheesh! I'm gettin' pretty bad about practicin'!

Guitar

But I'm not giving up! =0)

Today I've practiced:

My Savior, My God-I watched the video tutorial and wrote down the basic chords and played it through several times in my simple style. Aaron Shust does a lot of little extra notes (and uses more fingers than I can!) but at least I'm getting a simple version worked out and I'm practicing changing chords and I'm singing my way through it.

Beautiful Blood I tried this with the capo on the 2nd fret. It's a little high on a couple of notes and a little low on a few, but it's about as much in the middle as you can get. Here again, I'm playing it very simply. You change chords just about every other word, so that's enough to think about right now. I love the message!

I started to do "Through the Motions", but I don't really think this is a song I'm going to do in "real life". Nice message, but I'll let him do it. LOL! Probably same story with "East to West". I'll listen to them a lot, but probably won't play them. Just not ready to learn all those chords with slashes in the middle. ;)


Take Me In Strummed through this to practice the chords and sang through a couple of times.

You Are My Hiding Place Strummed and sang through a couple of times. Need practice on B, B7 and Bm chords.

Pioneer Played and sang through.

I'm not learning lots of new things as far as technique on the guitar, but I want to at least "tread water" as far as practicing the chords I know and trying to figure out simple versions I can actually play. And I'm keeping the callouses tough so I don't have to start from scratch. Very important! =0)

Saturday, October 10, 2009

My Soul Finds Rest-Psalm 62 Aaron Keyes...



Like this song! Tutorial at New Song Cafe

Also practiced "Take Me In", "Pioneer", and "You Are My Hiding Place".

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Better practice before I lose my callouses!

Guitar

Haven't picked up the guitar for a few days. Since I put it in the case with the "humidifying device" (ziploc bag containing damp washcloth, bag opened slightly) I just don't pick it up like I would if it was sitting there in the stand. Maybe I'll leave it out more and put it in the case at night?

Today I played through:

Take Me In
You Are My Hiding Place
Pioneer

Trying to figure out "East to West". The chords I found are a little different for me. Going to look for a tutorial.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

East to West...another good song!



I listened to this song over and over, trying to get the tune down.

Also practiced:
Take Me In
You Are My Hiding Place
Pioneer
My Savior, My God.