The Capo Company
I love my Performance 2 capo
so much that I have one for each guitar ! They are easy to use , very light , and look great . In my opinion it ’ s the best capo out there !
Josh Baldwin
Songwriter and Worship Leader with Bethel Church and Bethel Music
Find out more : www . G7th . com / Performance2 tour their shop . A lot of the guys who work in the shop were like , “ Hey , we play your songs in our Church !” It was really cool to hear that there was a definite heart for ministry and worship . A lot of the guys were church players , so we immediately connected with them and had a great time . They agreed to send out a whole bunch of new guitars with us on the road .
So in the spring last year , Chris would start asking some questions from stage , like , “ Hey does anyone out there lead worship , maybe in a youth group , or a high school or college student …” And he would just keep asking questions until there was eventually some youth group jumping up and down , waving and pointing at the kid in their youth group that played guitar . Then he ’ d be like , “ Hey why don ’ t you come up on stage with us !” and of course they ’ d lose their minds . So the typically younger boy or girl would jump on stage with us and they ’ d play a song with us , of course not knowing that the guitar that Chris hands them to play on that song is something that they ’ re going to get to go home with !
So they play the song with us , and everyone ’ s cheering at the end and it ’ s really fun , and he says , “ Hey when I was your age I had someone who believed in me and prayed over me and really encouraged me , so as a way to encourage you and do the same and pray a blessing over your life and really believe in you as a worship leader , I want you to take that guitar home .” And the place would just go nuts . I mean , to watch their faces when Chris hands them a guitar and says , “ You can take this home …” it was really cool . And , it was a legitimate Taylor guitar with onboard electronics and everything . It was a really cool thing . Hats off to Taylor Guitars , they really came through to invest in all these worship leaders .
[ WM ] What pedals or preamps do you use on stage , or do you just go direct ? And if so , what DI boxes do you use ?
[ Daniel ] We use the Radial DI boxes that we ’ ve had for years . Chris , somehow discovered an LR Baggs pickup that he fell in love with for acoustics , so we put those in his acoustics . I think I put the same one in mine . Taylor makes great stuff as well . We ’ ve just become accustomed after years on tour to hearing a certain sound in our ears so we swapped out some electronics . I believe the LR Baggs pickups are what is in there now . We just use the Radial DI boxes and a couple tuners , we don ’ t use an EQ from our end . I think Chris likes to keep it simple and we have a great crew that we can trust , so we don ’ t have to worry too much . We leave the EQ up to the professionals ( laughs ).
OK , so that gets us to the end of this month ’ s installment . If you ’ re wanting to learn more about Daniel ’ s ‘ less is more ’ approach to worship guitar , we invite you to check his lesson series with Rooted Music .
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