MATT MCCOY

Acoustic Guitars part 1

// April 14th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blog

We started recording acoustic guitars tonight for the new record.  We still have more drum tracks to record (about 5 more songs) We’re making progress though and it’s coming along well.

Acoustics used tonight:

Avalon A25
Collings OM2H 

Here’s a little video I recorded tonight. Nothing fancy, but it gives you an idea.

On my way home, I stopped at Wendy’s and ordered a crispy chicken and 5 piece nuggets (which seems to have gone up in price by the way). I consumed that within a couple blocks, and then stopped at Taco Bell to satisfy the hunger… Cheesy Double Beef Burrito. I’m not sure why i told you that, but it was delicious.

Video below… –>

Old Vineyard Song – “It’s Your Blood”

// April 10th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog

One of my very favorite (top 5) old Vineyard worship songs is “It’s Your Blood”, written by Michael Christ. This song was written around the year I was born.

I’ve looked everywhere for an audio file of this song, but can’t find anything. If anyone has it, let me know. The only thing I could find was this kinda cheesy ’sing-a-long’ YouTube video… but Hey – at least you can hear the song…. and maybe sing a long too. So beautiful… and very appropriate for Good Friday today.

I’ve been singing this song all day. Check out the video below.

iPhone Speaker Interference

// April 9th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog

Today marks the day of finally eliminating the most annoying sound in my life.
Everyday, while sitting at my desk, my iPhone would cause some crazy interference in my speakers.
Buzz buzz buzz bz bz buz buzzz bzzz bzz buzz bzz buzz bzz zz bz bz buz buzzz bzzz bzz buzz b zz bz bz buz buzzz bzzz bzz

You know what I’m talking about? 

This would happen literally all day, until I couldn’t stand it anymore and throw my phone down the hallway. (not really).
But it would cause inner turmoil inside of me.

Well – today, I found a solution. Aluminum foil. I cut a little piece of aluminum foil and and let my iPhone sit on top of it.
No more interference!!!!  WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I may not ever receive phone calls again, but at least the buzzing is gone.

Flying a blimp

// March 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

see video below…

Drums – Session 2

// March 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

{for those of you getting this through RSS, there is a video attached to this blog}

Elevate Snapshot

// March 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

Here are a few pics that my good friend Jennifer O’Connor took from Elevate at Willow Creek.

Drum Session 1

// March 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

Nothing too exciting about this video. I’ll try to do better next time.

Learn This Song #1

// March 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

“When I Think About The Lord” by Shane & Shane, from Pages

CLICK HERE to download from iTunes

CLICK HERE for guitar chords

Lost Generation

// March 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

I saw this on my friend Robin’s blog (http://robinperko.blogspot.com).

Conspire Conference

// March 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

UPDATE / Friday 6:30 pm :

Great time with the student band this morning at Conspire Conference. Also fun hanging with Brandon Grissom (http://www.brandongrissom.net) and band. We discovered a new iphone app. “Dog Whistle”. You’ve gotta try it. Let’s you play a tone at different frequencies. Check and see how high you can hear. I scored at 19,750 Hz. I can’t wait to bring it into a meeting with me and see how long it takes for people to notice a high pitch ringing sound.

This week Willow Creek is hosting the Conspire Conference – a conference for children’s ministry pastors and staff. I’ve been able to poke my head into a couple of sessions. Phil Vischer was here  (the Veggie Tales guy), as well as Sara Groves. During the morning session, Lakewood Church (Houston, TX) brought their student worship band in to lead worship. It was really cool. Very talented and energetic. Tomorrow morning, one of our students bands and I am leading a song to close out the conference. Hopefully I’ll have some videos or pics to post of that later. It’s started to get a bit warmer here in Chicagoland. Warm, Sunny… there’s nothing like sitting in the park with a book and some bubble tea. I have to run, but I’ll post more soon.

TCTC Song List

// January 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

For those of you who have asked, here are the songs we sang at the Tennessee Christian Teen Convention.

Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) – Chris Tomlin
Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Redman
Dancing Generation – Matt Redman
Everlasting God – Brenton Brown
From the Inside Out – Joel Houston
Marvelous Light – Charlie Hall
Mighty To Save - Reuben Morgan (Hillsong United)
Revelation Generation – Matt McCoy
Unchanging – Chris Tomlin
What If? – Matt McCoy
Your Grace Is Enough – Matt Maher
You’ve Given Everything – Matt McCoy
You Never Let Go – Matt Redman

TCTC 09 Video!

// January 12th, 2009 // 9 Comments » // Blog

I’ll write more about TCTC 09 later…stay tuned.