by Pastor Lindsey Seals

NOW Church band recently had the opportunity to use Yamaha’s CP4 keyboard both at our church and at the Live Events Pavilion at Infocomm, where we were the featured performers on the Technologies for Worship stage. The culture of worship at NOW Church is very important to us, as it’s the music which tends to be the initial draw to bringing people to our church. Therefore, it’s very important to us that our music sounds good and our band remains on the cutting edge. Our team likes to do things musically that are sometimes difficult to pull off, and in order to get the sound we need we have to have quality instruments. I may see a top 40 song performed on television or take a current hit from secular radio, remix it and our band can pull it off on a Sunday! Take last Easter for example. We took a popular song with a dark and negative message, “Take Me To Church” by Hozier, totally rewrote the lyrics to fi t our theme for Easter and our band nailed it! NOW is a multi-generational, multi-cultural church, and the music we play reflects that – on any given Sunday, we offer a variety of music, from Gospel to rock to hip-hop to traditional hymns – and having the right instrumentation plays a big role in allowing us to accommodate the worship needs of as many different people as possible. The main piano keyboard is one of the foundational pieces for our music. We also incorporate bass guitar, two aux. keyboards, two electric guitars, two acoustics, a drummer, a percussionist and six front liners and the lead singer into the mix to create an atmosphere of worship that can truly impact our congregants. With the Yamaha CP4, there were two things I noticed and appreciated right away: touch sensitivity of the keys, and the weight of the board.

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