records we made them both live, and he really
wanted the voices to be featured. We had all
these microphones set up in the room, we’d
play live, and we had all of these people come
in and sing with us. So really the guitar, how I
would approach that and how it would teach
me about arranging would be… you’re only
going to do something that would support what
all of the voices are singing and what the vocals
are doing. That’s really been a beautiful thing
about the Christmas music, it’s been like a big
sing-along, so you want people to really feel
that and you don’t want to take away from it.
[WM] Not that you would ever say it, but
Chris really gives you a huge amount of credit
for changing the way people approach electric
worship guitar. One on hand there is the U2-
influenced approach, and then there is this
thing that you do that combines dyads and
triads often in combination with an open string.
So how do you approach adding the ‘Daniel
flavor’ to keep things fresh and exciting from
the player’s point of view, without losing the
vocals and personality of the song at the same
time?
melody of the song. Find little spots where the of “Angels We Have Heard on High” that we
[Daniel] I think the trick for me (and hopefully guitar can do something different. Or the guitar have played every single Christmas tour, and
this will make sense), but the trick for me can move in a different way that might not be a this first started with us playing at our church
is always finding a way to kind of hint at the traditional part of the song. We have a version in Texas over a decade ago. Every year around
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