Chapel Band Fun!

Because there is a special chapel at the high school tomorrow, the middle school chapel band didn't need to prepare songs to lead worship this week, which left us with two extra chapel band elective periods!  Here's what we decided to do...

Learn new songs!
I played some of Chris Tomlin's new CD ("Burning Lights") for the students, and we attempted "Lay Me Down" together.  (Check out the video below for a clip of this song!)  We also played 3 other relatively new songs together - "One Thing Remains" (Jesus Culture), "Find You on My Knees" (Kari Jobe), and "Cornerstone" (Hillsong Live).

Try new instruments!
We challenged the students to play their secondary instruments or even a totally new instrument to them!  Amazingly, they had no problem playing the new songs on new instruments.  These middle schoolers are incredibly talented!  In the picture below, I teamed up with one of our usual singers on keys.  She wanted to play the keyboard, but only knew the C chord... so she played C, and I played everything else!

"Play" the iPad!
Brittany (the other chapel band teacher) showed students how to use Garage Band to play along with the other instruments.  Each student had a turn with the iPad guitar, keyboard, drums, or stringed orchestra.

Jam together!
We have had a BLAST just playing together this week!  Take a look at the video on my Facebook for a peek at our jam session.