Araks Record

16/11/2018

WHO ARE U DECEIVING ?*
You got angry in church and stopped being the member of the *choir*, left *ushering* , stopped *sanctuary cleaning* and every other work you were doing in church.
Eventually you've stopped going to the *church* because someone spoke to you in a way you didn't like...
Most of the messages from the pulpit was against you from your opinion...
Nobody called you when you were *sick* because according to you, *"they do not love or care in the church..."*
But pls excuse me...
You've not stopped working for the boss who insults you most of the time, neither have you stopped work because your colleagues spoke ill of you... (Money was the reason)
When you were sick, you didn't wait for your boss to call you or look for you at work. Rather, you called and told him about your present condition. No complaint about him not visiting you (Fear of query or loss of the job)
Do you remember that at school, your teachers, your schoolmates and or even your best friends offended you, yet you didn't stop schooling..
You can easily miss Church but not lectures because the lecturer will take attendance which counts in assessment
You can be late with your appointment with God at Church but you will be extra early for your visa interview at the embassy... �
*Who are you deceiving?*
I don't blame you too much. Maybe you don't know or you don't have adequate revelation about Church...
Please, Hear Me! Church is not a *"No Offense Club"* where all things must be done to please you and you alone.
*What have you done in church for the good of others?*
According to Scripture the first knowledge everybody must have about Church is that... It's *The House Of God* and *The Gate of Heaven*...
Genesis 28:17...
Your service to God must be with reverential fear, honor and respect.
God is watching... � _
Change your attitude.
Please forward to your various platforms and let's effect a positive change for God.
* # Let_the_Earth_hear *
* # Changing _the_World_by_the_Word**

29/09/2017

28/09/2017

Rhythm Piano!
The Secret of Melting Away Your Rhythm Problems
As Fast As Butter Melts In The Sun!
Most people who play an instrument of any kind have trouble with
rhythm. It's the number one problem people mention when they
talk about learning music.
But I know a secret: It's NOT their fault!
I know, because I had major problems with rhythm too, and it
took me years before I figured out how rhythm worked and how
easy it is once you grasp the logic of it.
The fault is in the way music is taught. You learn about quarter
notes and half notes and eighth notes and dotted notes and so
on, but they are just "floating around" on the staff -- some
measures are longer than others -- some notes are crammed
tightly into a measure -- and overall it's a mess.
It's like the pilot of an airplane who can't ever see the ground
and has no instruments to guide him, so he has no idea where he
is. He has no reference point, so distances are relative to him.
He doesn't know whether he is going East, West, up, down -- and
his chances of crashing and burning are excellent.
I was just like that pilot. I crashed and burned in rhythm time
after time. Let me tell you a painful TRUE story about one of my
"rhythm crashes."
Duane crashes and burns
When I was in my late teens, I was playing for a church youth
group "singspiration". I loved chords, and I used to do pretty
well playing most songs. But when it came to the "spirited"
songs -- the ones with lots of rhythm and life, I was lost. I
overheard one of our youth leaders say "Let's get someone on the
piano with some rhythm!" Ouch! That really hurt. I knew it was
true, but it's not fun to hear if from someone else, especially
someone you respect. Right then and there I made a decision: no
matter how long it took, I was going to MASTER RHYTHM. I was
going to learn every possible beat combination, and how to use
those beats in each song, and what to do in the right hand to
compliment what the left hand was doing. My search took me to
private teachers, music schools, combos, books of all sorts,
libraries, and listening to THOUSANDS of records, tapes, and
live performances. I copied down various rhythm patterns on 3"
by 5" cards, and at night I would analyze them playing them over
and over again on the piano. It was HARD WORK for me. It didn't
come easy, like chords had for me.
Chords were a snap, but not rhythm. It was difficult to read,
and hard to play. I found myself rushing, dragging, stumbling,
and generally fouling up. But as time went by, I got a little
better. I continued to make notes of rhythm patterns, and
started a collection of books and materials on rhythm. By the
time I got my Master's Degree from Southern Oregon University, I
was starting to get the hang of it. I was beginning to
understand what rhythm was, and what made it tick. I began to
categorize rhythm patterns into different groups, such as rhythm
& blues, jazz, rock, dance patterns, marches, waltzes, fox
trots, swing, boleros, discos, ballads, gospel, bossa-novas,
beguines, rumbas, cha chas, sambas, and so on. But it's one
thing to know a rhythm, and another thing to EXECUTE it on the
piano. So I developed a system that is VISUAL -- it allows you
to SEE a rhythm while you HEAR it played.
The problem lies in the way music is taught
That is the problem with the way music is taught: rhythm has no
baseline! It's like the pilot of an airplane who can't ever see
the ground, so he has no idea where he is. Without a baseline,
how in the world can I expect to understand the rhythm of a song?
But with a baseline, it's a snap.
I wish I could show you in this article how it works, but words
don't quite convey the idea.