by Mark J Martin | Feb 26, 2016 | Archived
Note: There is a link to a demo of Wednesday’s piano arrangement near the bottom of this post. I posted an arrangement Wednesday with some mixed meter, and I wanted to offer a few thoughts about mixed meter and how to play it. [This post is a bit technical. If...
by Mark J Martin | Feb 22, 2016 | Archived
One of the great privileges of planning and leading worship in a church is to get a front row seat to how God is the great orchestrator of church life, specifically in using music to build up His church. Yesterday was another day that God put together two great...
by Mark J Martin | Feb 19, 2016 | Archived
Just wanted to plant a little thought in your mind for this Sunday, for you pianists. The piano is an awesome instrument from which to worship God without words. Ok, so really you are enhancing words – words that are familiar or projected on a screen. The...
by Mark J Martin | Jan 18, 2016 | Archived
It’s clear in scripture that the purpose of music in the church is to 1) worship God (Psalm 150:3-4) and 2) teach God’s people (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16). But when the worship pastor uses the flip-open-the-hymnal-and-point method (or the...
by Mark J Martin | Jan 4, 2016 | Archived
Clutter slows us down. The progress of elimination is that when the table is dirty, you clean it off before you set it. When the life is overloaded, you remove the excess before you move forward. “Out with the old” before “in with the new.” Do...
