This past Sunday, we played a Rend Collective song for the offering in Southgate church, Springfield, OH. The original has a sort of Mumford and Sons feel, and the banjo part is all arpeggios, a common modern Celtic banjo technique. The songleader wanted the song in A (not D), so I wound up using - horrors - a capo and playing G chords. Then I realized I just couldn't play the arpeggios cleanly all the way through the thing - I'm out of shape for that. So I played a folk-style bum-ditty part. Of course no one else in our 500+ congregation would realize I was playing the wrong part. Then I realized that we wouldn't have some of the instruments on the breaks that were on the original tracks. So to fill in, I added bluegrass licks several places. In retrospect, it makes the last part of the song sound more "Hillbilly" than "Celtic." If we ever do it again, I'll work on the arpeggios. But here's a listen (as per the original, I don't start picking until after the second verse):
http://creekdontrise.com/misc_mp3/build ... m_mono.mp3If you search for "rend collective" "build your kingdom" on You-tube, you'll see and hear the original. In addition to lacking the brass section in our performance, we didn't have stilt-walkers or fire-jugglers either.
But it's a great song, well done by RC.
Have a great day, all. - Paul