KEYS
THREE KEYS SOUNDS TO GET READY FOR EASTER | David Pfaltzgraff
Spring is right around the corner and it’s a busy to approach things on a simpler level. I want time of year for the average worship leader or to help you identify three popular keys sounds The end result of that combination sounds
musician. This year Easter comes in the middle there’s a good chance you’ll need to be able more like a really bright, compressed piano with
of April which gives us all just a bit longer to to cover many of today’s most popular worship a metallic attack than a hammer dulcimer itself.
prepare our set list, practice all the new songs songs that your team may already have planned Many worship keys players struggle to dial in
and rehearse as a band. for your Easter services. this sound with some even investing in multiple
piano plugins searching for it before realizing
At the last church I was on staff at, I had a
HAMMER DULCIMER
that the addition of hammer dulcimer is what’s
horrible tendency to try to introduce tons of
bringing the sound together.
new technology around major holiday weekend The bright, metallic sound of hammer dulcimer services like Easter and Christmas. While the started showing up in modern worship music If you want to hear an example of how this
new technology made a big impact when five plus years ago (largely on the coat tails sound is often used check out the song
it worked - the high stakes environment of a of anthemic pop-rock bands like Coldplay as “Glorious Day” by Passion from a few years
holiday service meant when things didn’t work far as I can tell) and since then it’s became a ago. In that song, you’ll be able to hear those
- they really didn’t work. staple sound for many modern worship bands. big piano and dulcimer parts throughout the
The tricky thing about this sound is that it’s choruses.
Today, rather than encourage or discourage you very rarely used in isolation, but rather is often from adding new technology to your worship layered in along with at minimum an acoustic Depending on your software or hardware
keys rig as you prepare for Easter we’re going piano sound. of choice it shouldn’t be too hard for you to
158 March 2020
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