“ Keep my heart burning ”. I think it ’ s almost like a prayer that we recognize we ’ re not capable of a steady love without His presence sustaining it . Even in my best attempt , I ’ m not capable of a steady love , but I can pray , “ Would you keep my heart burning ? And so , I think that part of the song just carries this cry that it ’ s like , certainly you can do this , but I want to position myself for a love that continues to burn .
[ WM ] I ’ m just curious but I must ask you that as a worship team , are you in regular communication with the senior pastor ? Do you know in advance what will be preached on Sunday and does this impact your set list each week ?
[ Jessie-Rose ] Yes . So , with our rostering system , we roster three months in advance , and the senior pastors will usually have our preaching series and who ’ s going to preach also in advance . So that will be in our rostering system . We ’ ll be able to go on each week that we are rostered on team and see who ’ s preaching . We can see what they ’ re preaching about , and then also have the option to message whoever ’ s preaching and ask if they have any song requests that they feel would set their preaching up for that Sunday . Or what would just compliment what ’ s happening in the series . But yeah , our senior pastors are very involved , and I think they pitch the vision . We are there for it , but they ’ re also close enough for us to ask questions and get on the same page .
[ WM ] That ’ s good . It ’ s a tag team , isn ’ t it ? It ’ s supposed to be that way ! Brett , do you have a keyboard of choice ?
[ Brett ] It ’ s all a MIDI setup these days , so we just use a MIDI controller into MainStage . I ’ m a very nerdy musician , so I do a lot of sampling my own pianos in the studio . I ’ ll sample each note and create piano instruments or even I ’ ll record electric guitar swells and then trigger them via mini-keyboards and things like that .
So yeah , we use MainStage to host all of our sounds and then just a MIDI keyboard .
But for an upcoming recording , we ’ re actually recording everything on real piano . It ’ s going to be “ live in studio ”. And so , we ’ ve got two roller acoustic pianos . Plus we ’ ve got saxophone , cello , violin , mandolin , banjo , acoustic guitars , dulcimer and a harmonium with the real percussion . So , everything will be live . We even have a pump organ . Everything will be live and organic in our next recording .
[ WM ] As a drummer . I love your drummer . He ’ s great . He ’ s a really good . Listen , thank you so very much for this time . I know you have a busy day ahead of you . God Bless .
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