I’m back from vacation and let me tell you it was glorious!!

So, upon returning, I find that Daniel over at Avant Garde Faith has finished the promo video that I wrote the song for.  Since all of you have been so patient, I thought I’d Link it.   

It’s not the whole song, it’s cut to fit the promo, but I’m stoked about it.  Let me know what you guys think!

http://avantgardefaith.blogspot.com/2008/06/creative-chaos-film-promo.html

Last week, we went into the studio and finished the song.  Our Engineer/co-producer was Joel Piper and he was awesome!  Because of injuries and scheduling, Joel ended up laying down drums, bass and the leads.  He was great to work with and I’m excited to work with him again.

 I went in by myself all day Tuesday and laid down the acoustic and then we worked out the bass and drums parts.  Jill and Tim came in on Wednesday and did the vocals and strings.

 The song turned out great!  I’ll post it here once I have a final mix down.

This is the last night at Dana’s project studio.

Jill and Tim came in and threw down some Backing vocals and Keys/strings.

Enjoy!

On Tuesday, we went back into Dana’s studio to work on this project.  We had Tim come in and put down a piano hook with some strings and Jill do some background vocals.  It was awesome! 

A lot of great ideas circulating and I think we’ve got some cool stuff.  All that’s left is for Franklin, to put down some bass and guitar and we’ll be good. 

We go into the studio on Tuesday and Wednesday to record the final product and I’m really excited.  This week I’ve been ironing out the logistics and by Thursday of next week, we’ll be in post production. 

Because of the time frame of this project, we’ve had to keep the number of musicians relatively small, but this process has reminded me of just how much talent there is in our ministry.  What a cool thing it is to be able to just hand a song to people and have all of these ideas flying. 

There’s video of this session coming and the final product will be up here as well at the end of the month.

We are currently in the process of putting together a song for the California Missions Video, which highlights many of the mission opportunities here in the Golden State.  I’ve been asked to write a song for it and decided that it would be fun to put together this little video diary of how it all comes together.

 Part 1 is here, and this is part 2, which is Dana adding in drums.

Normally, Dana would be ripping away on the kit for all to see, but as his wrist is currently injured, it’s all computerised.  take a look.

Daniel Rhoten is putting together a video for the Southern Baptist Convention that will go out to all the churches in the state.  The video is designed to highlight opportunities within California for missions.  As a part of this video, I’ve been asked to write a song.

 So over the next several weeks I’ll be recording a lot and last night was the first opportunity to do that. 

I went over to Dana’s and we worked out some structural parts of the song, and then recorded a “scratch” recording of vocals and acoustic guitar.  From here, I’ll give it to some of the peeps here to develop bass lines, drum parts, lead parts, keyboard parts and background vocals.  In May we’ll go into the studio and record the final product. 

It’s a fun process, collaborating with all of these talented people and it’s always fun to go over to Cool-mo-Dee’s place and laying stuff down.  Last night he shot some video and I thought I’d share it with you.