Hey there…

I’ve finally had the time to put together a video version of our first piano worship.
This is a really basic lesson on major and minor chords.

Hopefully many more to come…
AJ

Since posting my observations about Passion, and in particular the comparison with BYPJ, a couple of people pointed out to me that it might be read as implying that the overseas team made all the difference — not at all what I meant and apologies to the local sound and AV guys if that’s how you read it.

All I was saying is that having a touring band, front of house mixer and lighting director all on the road together for months makes for a very well oiled machine by the time they get to the 17th city. (It gives you the luxury, for instance, of rehearsing everything for weeks and programming each song into your digital mixer and lighting console.)

So just to clarify: The BYPJ gig was extremely well done, especially for a one night event. Thanks to the generosity of everyone who worked on the night.

We’ve had our first two preproduction rehearsals for our 2009 album (yet to be titled).

At this stage we’re going through the 50-60 songs written for the project and choosing the ones we think will make the best album.

As many of you may remember, we started off life as a collaboration project — that meant 12 different songwriters and ten different genres for each album. Now that we’re a band, it’s amazing getting to spend days together listening to each other’s music and trying to make “a sound”. Having so many songs means we can pick not just the good ones, but also the ones which will work together as an album and that we’ll enjoy singing together for a while.

Below is our most recent video update on the process — check out the interview with Trent. He’s a nice guy.