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		<title>You Are Entering The &#8220;NO TRANSPOSE BUTTON&#8221; Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern technology is an awe inspiring thing. When I see cell phone getting more and more sophisticated, mp3 players that can play video, and keyboards that produce sounds that can mimic a 100 piece symphony my head spins at the possibilities of such devices. This technology has allowed people to do things and communicate in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=22&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected Benefits of CCLI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 04:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After writing the article &#8220;Legally Singing Music in Your Church&#8221; , I went back to the CCLI website to explore the updates that they have made. I must say I was quite surprised to see some of the things that are truly helpful and such a blessing! As a member of CCLI, you also have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=21&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legally Singing Songs in Church Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quote form a popular music learning website for church musicians: If your church sings songs that someone else recorded and you are not paying royalties via CCLI, you are a thief and a robber. You can not legally display the words in public nor perform music without paying royalties. You really can&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=18&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being on Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 23:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As church musicians we are not hirelings. I mean we should not play for a check or for gas money. We should know that we minister to souls, and we answer to God. Do you have a Minister of Music over you? If you do then you need to make sure that you are on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=17&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have Fun Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night as I was playing the keyboard, I stumbled upon a few chords that sounded like &#8220;Conjunction Junction&#8221; from School House Rock. I kept it up and finally came up with a decent sounding rendition of this song and it was fun! I believe that you need to make sure that you just play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=13&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Most From Your Practice</title>
		<link>http://playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/getting-the-most-from-your-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I have had quite an adventure lately to say the least. I am so happy to be back to my blog now I can&#8217;t decide where to begin. I will be adding another lesson on music theory this week, so come back and have fun learning the basics of playing music. Practicing for Results [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=12&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Play To Worship HIm</title>
		<link>http://playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/play-to-worship-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who are we playing for? I think this is a question that we must ask ourselves daily just as we ask whose are we. We as Christians believe that we belong to God because we have been bought with at price we are not our own. It stands to reason then that just as God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=9&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Part of A Team</title>
		<link>http://playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/being-part-of-a-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often times I am awed by groups that sound so together and in sinc with one another. I have often wondered just how they achieve that oneness, and I found that often times they have played long enough with each other that they instinctively know where the other is going. They are able to just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=8&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Land of the INTERVALS</title>
		<link>http://playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/the-land-of-the-intervals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahh intervals; the distance between two pitches in music. These must be understood before you can really progress much further without holes in your learning. The worst thing for a musician is to have holes in your learning! When you understand intervals, you can find any chord named just by knowing the specific intervals named [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=7&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scales, Chords, Progressions, Songs</title>
		<link>http://playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/scales-chords-progressions-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That will be your rally until Jesus comes! In all seriousness this should be the way you approach learning to play by ear. It even helps your understanding when learning to read music or if you already read music. Today we will focus on scales. Scales:Everything in music is based on a scale, and there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=playtoworshiphim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3785489&amp;post=6&amp;subd=playtoworshiphim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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