Praise Team Motto

Ha! Ain't that the truth! Yesterday was a prime example. One of our lead's skipped the second verse to All Things Are Possible and jumped straight to the bridge. Our Worship Leader cut two songs short without clueing the rest of us in. And ... the final song went on way longer than expected.

Plus ... I had to do lights and that is so not my job! I was just praying I wasn't going to mess something up big time. LOL

I know the feeling - we rehearse on Saturday evening, and our current worship leader as well as our previous one will put out the order of worship the week before. We get a CD, the charts (for those who read them) sheet music (for those who read them), and a cheat sheet that tells us what the projected order of each tune will be (verse, pre-chorus, chorus, etc).

This Saturday, by the time rehearsal was done, the only things that stayed the same were the tunes and the keys (mostly - we added a modulation in one tune to go from F to G). As we were noodling around before "Let the Praises Ring", Trevor heard me goofing around with the solo line that Lincoln Brewster plays, liked what I was doing, and asked if I would do it. I said yes I could (what guitar player doesn't like a solo?), and we added it in - which meant I had to come home and do more rehearsal because I didn't really know what Brewster played by heart. I'm purely an ear player - but good enough of one that I've been called a human jukebox, as I made my living playing guitar years ago. This isn't the first time I've had to do more work, but it is the first time I brought some onto myself.

Oh, I almost forgot to give credit where it is due - I heard the term "Semper Gumby" while I was back in Virginia with my sons watching "Generation Kill", an HBO Film about the marines who were the spearhead for Desert Storm II. It fit them - it fits us :)