How To Pad Behind Pastors, Speakers, and Teachers In A Church Service 

Great content here! 2m is a go to for me all the time. Got a great feel when laying things down towards the end.

New studio looks great! Loved the ribeye talk over the pads lol

Tony Pollard, Ribeye, so so good! LOL. This video has so many excellent tips! I've intuitively done some of these things and haven't even thought about it -- thank you for helping articulate those so well! So awesome!! I especially LOVED the part about voice leading, too. I was very fortunate to study music composition, theory, and voice-leading rules for choral parts and instrumental ensembles. Those principles guide TONS of how I voice pads and play piano. I think the way you described it was super intuitive and more accessible than all the textbooks I had to read! Well done! This is another outstandingly helpful video. Thank you a ton! I've sent this along to our keys players and know it will help them a TON!

Thanks for the Powerful pads 👏 please do more

I feel like church in US is more of a 'full body' experience than in Sweden. Here you go sit in the bench and silently pray, listen to some words by the pastor.. maybe an organist will play some old psalm.. but not much more... ofc in some church it can be more of the fun stuff with live music and all.😊

Great!

Man loved your pads ❤

Love the vid! I was in your breakout sessions at Worship 4:24 at Cedarville OH. Love your work!

Very nice sounds!!

Hey bro congrats on the new studio! As always love the tutorials and your playing! I primarily use Omnisphere for pads but I don’t want so much of the sheen. I’ve been just closing the filter a bit for some sounds. I like the first sound you started with. Really warm and no sheen. Those fit well under a piano. If you have any advice or presets that would give me that on Omni, please share! Peace and Blessings

Hey Sam, Great video! What are you using to layer on the piano roll and score view on this video? Do you have a video that you talk more about this setup? Wondering also if you are layering these in live as your record or doing it in post? Appreciate all you do to help the community of church musicians.

Yes sir, ....the one chord, 10 seconds, .....the four chord, 10 seconds,...... rinse and repeat..... It really kills me to do... But thank God for the effects, light bells, and other sneaky passing tones.😢

Loved this video and your other on the deep breakdown! What "edition" of Nexus are you using? Looks like they have three levels: Starter, Value 10 and Complete. Have never really found a great pad other than a few from Backstage Pass by Jim Daniker and really love some of these sounds.

Hey man. I just recently did the same thing you did

I like the I wish we could part for the chords approach lo😊

Would love to hear your review on Blair Masters Signature Grand 😊

Would you be willing to make your MainStage 3 template available for purchase at some point? I plan to purchase nexus 4 and the olufar Arnold’s patches you use for my own setup. That would be very helpful as I am still pretty new to software synth setup. Thank you for all that you do!

Can you do a CCM keys flow video? I’d love to know your tips on that for transitions between songs and ending. At our church we just have a pad going in the background of the 1 chord. Then the keys noodles around quietly/simply for the end of sermon prayer.

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Man that pad sounds good. Don't have nexus but do you think i could recreate it in Omnisphere?

on Lunaris can I find this similar sound?

what do you use to capture your vides and split screens? Great stuff Sam.

Great video, thank you! Are you just playing pads for the talk-person, no piano?

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