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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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