We’re doing the song “My Redeemer Lives” for Easter service on Sunday, and I couldn’t find a decent chart for it anywhere. The original Hillsongs charts are a mess, and the other versions I found floating around weren’t much better.
So, if you’re running into the same problem, here’s a chart you can use:
I know this breaks like 5,000 different copyright laws, so don’t tell anyone, OK? We’ll be fine unless they somehow manage to get the internet in Australia.
corey 4:48 pm on 20 March 2008 Permalink
I just did a rearrangement last week. It borrows the opening riff from Mayer’s “Can’t Take That Train”, which is a B-side from the Continuum project. Thank you Pino Palladino, and thank you Johnny May-May. File is here.
Oh yeah, and thank you, God, for that whole resurrection bit. I appreciate it.
Sharolyn 5:16 pm on 20 March 2008 Permalink
Have I mentioned my church is interviewing for a music pastor?…
Stick 6:10 pm on 20 March 2008 Permalink
Ha ha… I just finished charting the band and vocals from Nicole Nordeman’s “Redeemer” for us on Sunday. Then did up a quickie gigantor orchestra track, strings, horns, ‘bones, trumpets, timpani, and and click.
Too bad our three white singers aren’t going to sound like that 20 voice black choir on the record. Sigh.
If anyone needs ‘em…
michael lee 6:33 pm on 20 March 2008 Permalink
YES! Can you zip it up and post it on your site? I’d love to use that!
Stick 10:28 pm on 20 March 2008 Permalink
Sure, I’ll do it first thing tomorrow.
Do you want the string track? It’s pretty roughed in, but once you get everyone singing at the top of their lungs you probably can’t hear it much anyway. HA!
michael lee 12:25 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Actually, I think we’re set. The service came together as is.
Chad 1:03 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
I’m anti Hillsongs. Too many damn words.
michael lee 1:42 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
yes.
simone 4:39 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Australia?
We had a change of government recently and the new guys got in by promising us the internet. We’re looking forward to it.
michael lee 8:32 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
You’re gonna love it!
It’s like a Vegemite sandwich at the Anzac Day Footy, with a Tooheys Old in one hand, and Didgeridoo in th other (I’m assuming that’s every Australian’s idea of the best thing, ever, no?)
Chad 9:33 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Mike, I think you meean, “Best thing ever, eh?”
corey 9:51 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Mike,
It’s , “You’re gonna love it, mate“, dumbass.
Otherwise, they can’t understand what you’re saying.
corey 9:56 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
And I’ll have to respectfully disagree on the Hillsong comments. This song is pretty amazing. The most tastiest gretch-n-vox goodness you’ll ever take in. It’s hard for me not to drool while I listen to those guitar tracks. And the bass doing 16th stuff didn’t translate on the studio version, but here it works just right.
corey 9:57 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
sorry, that’s gretSch…
corey 9:57 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
and, yes, three comments in a row.
corey 9:58 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
I mean, four.
corey 9:58 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
crap.
michael lee 10:05 am on 21 March 2008 Permalink
wow man, drop the caffeine, and back away from the clicky keyboard, please.
Chad 1:18 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Corey – That’s a pretty cool tune, but I see your call and raise you “All Things are Possible.”
Action’s on you. Oh, how I hate – hate – hate that song.
corey 1:33 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
um.
This is where I struggle with thought. Standing at the crossroads between being accepting of those whose faith is different than mine and being an ass towards those whose faith is different than mine.
I couldn’t get to the halfway mark of that video. And now that I’m back here, I can’t erase the memory of having suffered through the first half.
I thank God that His kingdom is large and colorful.
This is the soundtrack to my trouble with AmeriChurch. (Yes, I know, Hillsongs is down under.) But this kind of sugary, gaudy, kitschy, saccharine style of faith is so far outside of my world. Especially since today is Good Friday, and the whole matter of sin, faith, resurrection, and redemption seems so much heavier than conventional CCM.
Actions on me? My action is uncontrolled vomiting. Now I have to go back to my link to purge yours.
Stick 1:42 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
I gotta say, we did Tomlin’s “Amazing Grace” at the end of our Good Friday service, after communion… I can’t remember hearing the congregation sing so loud (this through my in-ears). Good stuff. Hard to add to the world’s most known song, but that chorus he added is great.
Stick 1:43 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Not that that has anything to do with Hillsong or vomiting, or whatever.
michael lee 1:49 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
I think it’s safe to say that Hillsongs is an American cultural export to the land down under.
Chad 2:04 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Oh… I hope I’m not implying something other then good natured ribbing at the expense of our Aussie friends. I have a lot of acceptance for all sorts of folks under the umbrella of faith. I tend to err, if anything, on the side of being too accepting and forgiving of our spiritual brothers, sisters, half cousins by marriage…etc.
Except for Joel Osteen. I kind of want to hit him with a bat. In love.
corey 3:27 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Stick, when we do Amazing Grace/ My Chains Are Gone (AG/MCAG, because we’re in SoCal and don’t have the time for extra syllables), our congregation does the exact same thing. It’s really powerful. In those moments, with those words, my faith in The Church as a body of believers is fully restored. It’s in those moments where I feel like the Christ of my faith is an exact clone in word and deed to the Christ of the faith of each congregant singing along.
What also doesn’t hurt is a really long analog delay trail that’s dripping in modulation and a pinch of slow, humpy tremelo during the verses. …I’m just sayin’.
Chad 3:34 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
“Slow… Humpy Tremolo.”
Nice.
Stick 3:58 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Amazingly, we did it today without the trem. In fact, we did it without any “God’s Instrument”, the acoustic guitar (now that the DX7 is no longer “God’s Piano”). Just plain ol’ piano (ok, digital piano, but it sounds pretty real), bass and drums. And a few throats.
corey 4:06 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
I’m lucky enough to be in a church that has two guitars just about every sunday, and neither of them are acoustic. We have embraced the out-of-phase-pickup-position strat as the Worship Acoustic of 2009.
michael lee 5:50 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Corey, I think God wants you to remember the old, old scriptures, about how if one man has two shredding electric guitarists and another man has none, that you should come play our church on Easter.
I’m pretty sure that’s how it goes. At least that’s how it reads in The Message.
Stick 6:18 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
That is how it goes. Therefore, you should move to Auburn and play at my church EVERY WEEK!
Stick 6:18 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
We allow tremelo.
michael lee 7:00 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
we would require it.
simone 10:41 pm on 21 March 2008 Permalink
Have you guys seen this hill$ong parody?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj6G7MC85Rw
Very funny.
Chad 9:00 am on 22 March 2008 Permalink
Yeeeeeeouch!
Daniel Semsen 12:58 pm on 22 March 2008 Permalink
Chad-the Hillsong video you posted should be outlawed.
ugh.
Daniel Semsen 12:59 pm on 22 March 2008 Permalink
Mike:
“I know he rescued by soul”?
Is that from The Message too? HAHAHA…
Chad 1:53 pm on 22 March 2008 Permalink
My 2nd church gig was at a Purpose/Seeker Driven church, and that was their favorite song. I have a deep, profound, abiding distaste for that tune. It’s actually kind of personally painful to hear it.
michael lee 2:42 pm on 22 March 2008 Permalink
crap. This is why I need an editor to personally follow me around and correct everything I do.
Chad 4:00 pm on 22 March 2008 Permalink
Is Gretchen slacking off?
Sharolyn 4:34 pm on 22 March 2008 Permalink
I had one experience with “All Things Are Possible” – ‘didn’t know it was a hit song. It’s kind of odd, musically. “My soul will bless you, Lord” is a rather large faith claim.
corey 10:02 pm on 22 March 2008 Permalink
Mos def.
michael lee 11:22 pm on 22 March 2008 Permalink
I think it’s a straight quote from the Psalms – which, of course, doesn’t diminish it being a big faith claim.