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hey, i'm the pastor's son of an english speaking church in la paz mexico. good to meetcha.
basically, i'm the most frequent guitarist, and i was wondering if anybody knew of some easy, upbeat, contemporary (or however you spell that) songs we could try playing some sunday. it really seems to me that we only have MAYBE half a dozen upbeat fun songs that we cycle through. i'm kinda getting sick of some of them :P
so, if anyone has any suggestions...
P.s. oh yeah, i suppose having some leadsheets or tab or something like that would be necessary. and it would be nice to have th original sound track. i might be able to get it off limewire though, the important thing is if you know of any fun songs.
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I can only think of one good, lesser known, song right now. When I come up with some more I'll add them.
Charlie Hall-Marvelous light

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thanks man, i'll look it up. i thought i'd never get a post...
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Well my favoriate 'simple songs' are ones you may have heard of.
"Open the Eyes of My Heart"
"Every Move I Make"
"Meet with You"
"All Who Are Thirsty"
all of which are easily accessible on this site. Look in the tab search.
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Take me in,
I don't know who wrote the song but kutless has a sweet version of it.
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Originally Posted by Blade84135 Well my favoriate 'simple songs' are ones you may have heard of.
"Open the Eyes of My Heart"
"Every Move I Make"
"Meet with You"
"All Who Are Thirsty"
all of which are easily accessible on this site. Look in the tab search.
Good suggestions!
Days of Elijah is one of my favourite 'upbeat' songs.
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thanks guys, we do "open the eyes of my heart" and "every move i make" often enough, although i think we could use more of the later.
i don't think i've ever heard of "meet with you" or "all who are thirsty", so i'l look into that. i think i've heard "take me in" though i'm not sure...
never heard of "days of elijah either, but this is exactly what i wanted, a bunch of songs i'd never heard of
thanks a bunch
p.s. blade, you sure the song isn't meet with me? i couldn't find meet with you on the site...
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Here's a list of some of the more upbeat tunes we do:
Again I say Rejoice
Amen
Ancient of Days
Arise
Awesome God
Be Glorified
Better Than Life
Blessed Be The Name
Celebrate Jesus
Come, Now is the Time to Worship
Days Of Elijah
Friend of God
Forever
He Is Exalted
I Am Free
Joyful, Joyful
Joy of the Lord
Let It Rise
Lord, I Lift Your Name On High
Lord Reign In Me
Majestic
Meet With Me
Mourning Into Dancing
On Our Side
Only A God Like You
Open the Eyes of my Heart
Praise Adonai
Sing
Sweeter
There is a Rock
To God be the Glory
Trading My Sorrows
Turn it Around
We Wanna See Jesus Lifted High
You Are Good
You Are Holy
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Fields of Grace - Big Daddy Weave
Blessed Be Your Name - Look at the Tree63 version
Cry Holy - SonicFlood
Jesus You Alone - Pop Songs for God Project
Look What You've Done - Tree63
Open Up The Sky - Lindell Cooley
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Originally Posted by irtrogdor hey, i'm the pastor's son of an english speaking church in la paz mexico. good to meetcha.
basically, i'm the most frequent guitarist, and i was wondering if anybody knew of some easy, upbeat, contemporary (or however you spell that) songs we could try playing some sunday. it really seems to me that we only have MAYBE half a dozen upbeat fun songs that we cycle through. i'm kinda getting sick of some of them :P
There have been a number of good suggestions. I actually wanted to address something else from your post.
I totally understand about getting sick of songs, especially when you are one of the main players in a worship team. New songs are a good thing and expanding what you can play is great. HOWEVER, IN my years of serving and now leading worship I've learned some lessons from other leaders, from leadership above me and from my congregation. By the time the team is tired of a song, the congregation is finally really learning it and being able to start to worship with it. Remember, they haven't been listening to it and practicing it all the time for a couple months. IT takes time for them to learn the new songs; keep in mind most are not musicians and take longer to pick up new lyrics and tunes.
New songs are great, just remember that you are there to serve your congregation and to facilitate the musical part of the worship service.
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i perfectly understand passinthru, and it wasn't exactly that we were getting sick of the songs, just that we don't have enough upbeat songs in our arsenal. it's like a 10 to 1 ratio. so i was longing for some fun stuff to do to wake people up in the morning
and i REALLY like days of elijah, great suggestion
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yeah it's probsbly called meet with me. Righto.