Monthly Archives: March 2008

BPM for songs

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In preparation for having our team playing more regularly with click tracks, I’ve been checking out various programs that get the BPM for songs for you. Metronome operates as advertised, as does BPM Widget. They’re pretty standard metronomes, you can click along with a song. Two even more helpful programs have been BeaTunes and Tangerine, which go through your whole itunes library and figure out the beats per minute for you. I opened the demo of both, and had BeaTunes run my whole library. There’s debates on sites about how accurate they both are, but it seems like BeaTunes did pretty well.

If you regularly play with a click track, I’d love to hear what setup (computer/metronome/in-ear) you use.

The Atonement

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Tony Reinke has a review of Shai Linne’s new album, The Atonement.

He closes with:


The Atonement
is an excellent album, not only for its content and quality, but for
modeling how one hip-hop artist is diligently transferring what he
learns about the cross from his theological mentors into his work. I
take from this album a challenge to listen more carefully to the
mentors, to let the truths of the cross settle into my own heart, and
then to strive toward transparency in faithfully passing these biblical
teachings to others.

The Presence of God

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Tonight I was reading True Worship by Vaughan Roberts, and wanted to pass along this quote on how we perceive the presence of God:

“We are all different, so different things induce the experience in us.  Some find that dimly lit medieval buildings, candles, plainsong and formal choirs do it for them.  Others are left cold by all that.  Acoustic guitars, drums, and synthesizers are what they need.  Those two settings could hardly be more different, but many devotees of each are united by the belief that the ‘buzz’ they experience is an encounter with God.  That buzz, in their minds, is the moment of true worship – when they enter the presence of God himself and he draws close to them.”…The Bible never teaches that a feeling can take us into the presence of God.  If that had been possible, God would have sent us a musician rather than a saviour.  Only Christ can take us into the Most Holy Place in heaven, where we have direct access to the Father through faith in him.”

True Worship, Vaughan Roberts, pp. 67-68.