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Podcast Seventy from 2016-01-23T21:07:42
This podcast is made up of the songs left out of the Music To Pray By album “My Father in Heaven”, which is coming very soon. This is the first podcast recorded on the new Yamaha DC7XE3 Grand Piano...
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Podcast Sixty-nine from 2014-06-25T03:31:47
The last podcast to be recorded on my Yamaha DC3M4. It goes away tomorrow, and though it’s only been 4 years, I feel as though I have a tremendous amount of history with that wonderful piano. I act...
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Podcast Sixty-eight from 2014-01-02T08:15:35
Yet another all-original podcast. I did use some pretty familiar chord progressions, but I also tried out some new styles. I’m definitely looking forward to trying this podcast out tomorrow morning...
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Podcast Sixty-seven from 2013-02-24T01:45:47
You may not hear any familiar melodies as this podcast is mostly original. I’ve adopted a fairly new process to recording the podcast. Rather than attempting to record all 30+ minutes in one sittin...
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Podcast Sixty-six from 2012-11-24T22:40:13
I think this might end up being my favorite podcast to date. What God has brought me through over the past 7 months is expressed in this music since even today I fail to grasp the words to properly...
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Podcast Sixty-five from 2012-03-12T20:18:54
In this podcast, I used songs Soundwave prepared for DCYC – they are “Strong Enough to Save”, “Your Name High”, “Forever Reign”, “Always”, “Your Great Name”, and “Our God”. I think this is probabl...
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Podcast Sixty-four from 2011-11-22T06:25:38
What a crazy couple of weeks it has been! I won’t bore you with all the details, but the end result is I finally have a new podcast. You’d think after 3 years of doing this I’d have it down but I d...
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Podcast Sixty-three from 2011-10-17T03:15:39
I finished mixing the Soundwave album last week so I’m back at it – thanks for your patience. This podcast, I only used “Hosannah” for a brief period. The rest is original – some from previous podc...
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Podcast Sixty-two from 2011-08-29T15:22:50
I used quite a few worship songs during this podcast – “Give Me Faith”, “Our God”, “I Lift My Hands”, and “Mighty To Save”. In a way, a lot of this podcast sounds repetitive to me compared to previ...
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Podcast Sixty-one from 2011-08-01T08:12:26
Still searching for the best mic placement and mix, but I think its getting there. Most all the tunes are repeat or new originals. You may recognize one or two of them. I pray that every note playe...
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Podcast Sixty from 2011-07-04T07:08:26
This podcast does have familiar melodies from others, but I believe it has some uniqueness. One melody from the chorus of “Pour My Love on You” was used at the end. A couple technical notes – I use...
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Podcast Fifty-nine from 2011-06-06T07:19:35
This podcast, I used the songs, “Came to My Rescue” and “I Will Exalt”. Since I actually recorded this podcast over a month ago, I had to refer to planning center for the song names. It is nice to ...
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Podcast Fifty-eight from 2011-05-10T03:56:30
It’s finally finished! The songs used are mostly original. I did play a familiar melody at the tail end. Most of it is a little more fast-paced than the norm. May you continue to be inspired to pra...
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Podcast Fifty-seven from 2011-04-11T07:16:08
This week we had Wednesday Night worship at The Connection Church so I used quite a few songs from that service – “Mighty To Save”, “Came To My Rescue”, and “Awakening”, a new worship song by Chris...
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Podcast Fifty-six from 2011-03-28T07:22:39
I used only one song this podcast. It’s by Robbie Seay, and it’s called “Crazy Love”. The rest is original. This podcast is actually a second take since the first didn’t record properly. I always t...
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Podcast Fifty-five from 2011-03-14T04:33:10
I used two songs from last week’s service for today’s podcast – “Forever Reign”, and “God You Reign”. The rest is original. I used a different acoustic piano sample for editing the MIDI this week, ...
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Podcast Fifty-four from 2011-02-28T06:43:03
We did a new song called “Our God” by Chris Tomlin in church last week, and it’s a beautiful song so that’s what I started this podcast with. The rest is somewhat original. A familiar melody came t...
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Podcast Fifty-three from 2011-02-14T06:20:33
This week I used a new song we played at church called “Came to My Rescue”. It is a wonderful worship song and it would be worthwhile to check out the lyrics if you haven’t heard them before. I als...
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Podcast Fifty-two from 2011-01-31T06:29:13
I used new mics and new mic placements for this podcast, and have to say, this may be the best podcast yet in my opinion. God is so good! It is such a huge blessing an honor to be serving Him in th...
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Podcast Fifty-one from 2011-01-17T06:55:31
It seems like ages ago that the last podcast was posted even though it’s only been 4 weeks. The piano was recently tuned and is sounding wonderful. I’ve had this podcast ready for a while now. Ther...
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Podcast Fifty from 2010-12-20T06:07:56
Merry Christmas! Well, this is the place to come when you’re burnt out on all the Christmas music being played everywhere. I had planned on adding a Christmas song or two, but that didn’t work out....
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Podcast Forty-nine from 2010-12-06T06:22:28
This week is all original since the church set list is pretty much all Christmas music. There were a couple that weren’t Christmas songs, but they weren’t really appropriate. Well, maybe one was. I...
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Podcast Forty-eight from 2010-11-22T08:07:20
A podcast subscriber suggested recording without the usual increase in dynamics so I gave it a shot. My wife has actually suggested this as well a while back. I hope you enjoy it. I used the follow...
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Podcast Forty-seven from 2010-11-08T07:29:41
I apologize for being a little late for this podcast, but had the mic / audio interface problem again, and I didn’t discover it till it was too late so no second-take this time. I tried to compensa...
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Podcast Forty-six from 2010-10-25T03:15:36
I used the following songs: “Your Grace is Enough”, “King of Glory”, and sort of used the chord progressions of ”Own Little World”. Once again, there ended up being a lot of timing issues in this ...
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Podcast Forty-Five from 2010-10-11T01:00:30
Happy 10-10-10! Did you know that in some areas, the number of people getting married today is 10 times the norm! I happen to be at one of those weddings today. My best bud since the 7th grade is g...
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Podcast Forty-four from 2010-09-27T01:24:24
There are quite a few familiar melodies from previous podcasts in this one. The only song I sort of used was “Your Love is Amazing”. I didn’t spend as much time editing this week since I kind of ra...
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Podcast Forty-three from 2010-09-13T01:00:21
I didn’t get to spend as much time as I would have liked editing this podcast, but I think it still turned out okay. I’ll be out all day on Sunday for a Soundwave gig in Waco so I had to get everyt...
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Podcast Forty-two from 2010-08-30T04:27:10
This podcast, I used “Beautiful The Blood” and “You’ll Come”. The rest of it is original. I tried some different editing and mixing tools so it may sound a little different than previous podcasts. ...
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Podcast Forty-One from 2010-08-15T23:16:51
The following songs were used in this podcast – “Tear Down The Walls”, “Your Name High”, and the Soundwave original that we just recorded in the studio, “Confidence”. There are some original melodi...
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Podcast Forty from 2010-08-02T02:49:21
There may be a few melodies in this podcast that you might recognize. One is from the original Music To Pray By album. I believe a couple of contemporary worship songs are in this as well, but list...
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Podcast Thirty-nine from 2010-07-19T05:42:17
The only familiar song used was “Glory to God”, and I mixed in some original stuff. There are some pieces of some new Soundwave songs that’ll be on the next album we’re working on currently. The re...
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Podcast Thirty-eight from 2010-07-06T05:55:09
The following songs were used in this podcast: “Your Grace Is Enough”, “Marvelous Light”, “Sing, Sing, Sing”, and “This is the Air I Breathe”. Throughout recording, the mic placement changed slight...
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Podcast Thirty-Seven from 2010-06-24T08:34:39
Felt a little rusty recording this one after 6 months off. It’s great to be back at it. There’s a pretty even mix of original melodies and contemporary songs like “God You Reign”, and “God Of This ...
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Podcast Thirty-six from 2009-12-27T00:17:36
I Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We certainly did hanging out with the family. I just realized that we didn’t take any pictures. We really need to designate someone to do that next time we...
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Podcast Thirty-five from 2009-11-16T01:18:51
This podcast, I used a completely different setup to record. I’ll blog more about it later. I used a number of familiar tunes. It was basically our set list for church this Sunday, and I think it t...
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Podcast Thirty-four from 2009-11-02T01:37:08
I decided to change the naming from “week” to “podcast” since these will no longer be weekly. However, I will attempt to record one every other week. This podcast was actually recorded last Monday,...
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Week Thirty-three from 2009-10-12T16:32:40
This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but it has been a very busy weekend. I thought that after the exam, I’d have a lot more time to do stuff, but that certainly is not the case. At any rate,...
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Week Thirty-two from 2009-07-26T04:24:46
This day last year was my first post to the Music To Pray By Blog and now, a year later, there have been close to 30,000 downloads of 16 hours of recorded piano music to pray by. This is truly a Go...
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Week Thirty-one from 2009-04-19T04:37:58
During this podcast, I used the songs: “Hosanna”, “Mighty to Save”, and a new song called “Forever”. We’re doing it for the first time at church tomorrow. It’s a great song and it’s not the one yal...
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Week Thirty from 2009-04-04T22:11:25
This one is a little longer than usual. I just didn’t feel like stopping. I used a number of familiar melodys and chord progressions in this week’s podcast. I hope you enjoy it.
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Week Twenty-nine from 2009-03-22T03:41:04
The bi-weekly podcast is here. I decided to get it done today so that I can focus on studying for the CCIE tomorrow after church and group. I missed the “record” button again. I ended up playing fo...
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Week Twenty-eight from 2009-03-09T21:32:02
I’ve gotta make this quick – Don is out there working hard without me and has been for the past couple of hours while I finish up this week’s podcast. I used a few songs from Sunday morning service...
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Week Twenty-seven from 2009-02-23T07:18:44
Sunday morning worship was awesome this morning! We had a new guitar player who rocked the house! What a great sermon by Cole too! This week, I did some familiar songs: “Revelation Song”, “Love Sto...
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Week Twenty-Six from 2009-02-09T00:09:02
Keeping it short this week – I used the songs “I Can Only Imagine”, and “God of this City”. I know I’ve played these songs before, but we did them at church today so I decided to do them again. God...
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Week Twenty-five from 2009-02-02T06:33:39
Sorry about getting this posted a little late. I recorded it this afternoon after church, but had to head over to the Petreas for our small group Super Bowl Bash. It was a blast, but left a little ...
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Week Twenty-four from 2009-01-26T06:56:28
I just couldn’t resist! There will never be another podcast that is Week “24”. For those of you who are 24 fans, you know why I’m so hyped up about it! Don’t worry, the theme song or the clock tick...
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Week Twenty-three from 2009-01-12T04:48:56
This week I used the chord progressions of some of the songs we played today for worship. I used a different position for the R-09HR, which caused it to pick up more from the sound board rather tha...
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Week Twenty-two from 2009-01-05T01:01:28
Happy new year! I was going to do a seperate “happy new year” post, but never got around to it. For the first podcast of the new year, I used the songs “Your Name”, and a little bit of “Thy Word”. ...
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Week Twenty-one from 2008-12-29T01:11:06
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. The songs I used this week are, “All Over the World”, “One Life to Love”, and “How He Loves”. They may not be very recognizable, and I kept wanting to go from ...
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Week Twenty from 2008-12-22T00:28:18
The only song I used this week was “Mighty to Save” somewhere in the middle. The rest is original. I kind of got in the habit of picking songs out of The Connection Church worship set list, but sin...
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Week Nineteen from 2008-12-15T01:06:06
Even though I only missed 1 week, it feels like a lifetime. It really felt great to sit down at the piano and worship today. I kept the podcast original this week with the exception of a different ...
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Week Eighteen from 2008-11-29T21:16:50
Once again, this week is all original. The same thing happened again where the recorder wasn’t actually recording for the first 10 minutes which was very frustrating since that probably would have ...
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Week Seventeen from 2008-11-23T00:38:24
This week is completely original. I didn’t use any songs. I also used a different position for the mic. It still picked up some lower frequencies better than the mids and highs, but I was able to f...
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Week Sixteen from 2008-11-17T02:42:29
The songs used this week are “You are my King (Amazing Love)”, “Enough”, and the rest isn’t really any particular song. I realize I’m a day late this week. It’s because there was a network outage y...
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Week Fifteen from 2008-11-09T01:26:31
Wow – another day of problems, but at least there is a podcast to post this time. I’ve never had anybody come to the door and ring the doorbell while I was recording, but that happened today. I hop...
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Week Fourteen from 2008-10-25T23:22:03
The songs used this week are “He Reigns” and “Hosanna”. I think I’ve done “Hosanna” before, but this should be a different variation. If you listen to the podcasts very much, all of it may start to...
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Week Thirteen from 2008-10-19T03:49:27
Today I used the following songs: Great God, You are My King, and Day after day. I haven’t been blogging much the past few weeks, which should change in the next couple months. A quick note on the ...
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Week Twelve from 2008-10-12T22:24:27
Sorry I’m a day late in getting the podcast posted this week. Yoko, SanBan, and I spent the entire day out visiting family in the Houston area on Saturday. This week I tried a different mic placeme...
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Week Eleven from 2008-10-05T00:46:51
As promised, I played around a little with mic placement and believe I found a good spot. I actually used 4 songs for the first time. They are: I Can Only Imagine, From The Inside Out, Who am I, an...
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Week Eight from 2008-09-14T04:51:14
The first recording ended up being a mess for some reason. I figured it was a bug with the limiter so I upgraded the firmware on the new R-09HR and turned the limiter off. I recorded another 30 min...
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Week Seven from 2008-09-06T22:21:56
I tried to incorporate more of the requests from a while back, but things didn’t really work out as I had planned. I did play a “Ron” version of “Somebody” which Micah requested, but didn’t really ...
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Week Three from 2008-08-09T06:47:03
Once again, there were no song requests so I picked Mighty to Save, Beautiful the Blood, and Shine. I didn’t really play Shine – maybe the chord progression of the chorus, but I really feel that th...
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