Yes! More grass in church! And none of that newgrass either…play the grass that Paul played!
@Bcaves, I don’t know if Eastman offers them…I’ll have to check.
Electronics for Guitar
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play the grass that Paul played!
Duh…Not getting it. Please elaborate.
Thanks just let me know! I bet Paul did play some grass!!!
Ha! I like that “Get grassier over time”, that should be our goal with country music these days as well. We do play one hymn almost every Sunday, but it usually gets a little contemporary flair. Our last worship pastor used to love to take a hymn in 3/4 time and change it to 4/4 time. It used to drive me nuts!
Yeah for sure every church has a dynamite VOLUNTEER sound engineer!
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I’m with you Treblemaker,
Not really getting this whole conversation, including the dynamite volunteer sound enginner thing. I think maybe he means when Paul was singing in prison with Silas. Who knows, Paul and Silas may be the very first real Bluegrass group… And before Daily and Vincent, there was Paul and Silas!
BTW, I’m not fond of ANY electronics on my acoustic guitar… just me, sorry everyone. There’s no pickup system that exists that sounds like the real thing. I do realize, like Mike said, there are times that plugging in is necessary. And if you’re playing against alot of other contemporary type sounds, what’s the point of worrying how natural your guitar sounds? It’s most likely not going to stand out anyway.
So, what happened was Paul and Silas were singing bluegrass but they had to plug in cuz the jail had bad acoustics and no mics, and the volunteer prison sound guy was so dynamite, he blew all the doors open.
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They don’t teach you this stuff in history class…
Guilty as charged for at least one… I do Amazing Grace in both 3 and 4 (but not at the same time).
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I resemble that remark
And now we know the rest of the story!
The frst time I arranged amazing grace for fingerstyle guitar and harmonica, I did it in four cuz I didn’t know the song was supposed to be three 
my mom later corrected my timing and I had to rearrange it, which I managed 
Here’s the versions I can think of that I have done:
Hymn and close variations: 3
Harmonica and guitar: 3
“My chains are gone” version: 4
A rocking kind of version (Was by pastor’s request for a particular sermon series. It worked!): 4
Fingerstyle dirge version for a funeral: 4
Oddly (sadly, whatever) I have done it more wrong than right.
I have heard people start it (seemingly unaware) in 4 and change to 3 to keep up with the congregation.
Have y’all ever heard Amazing Grace to the tune of House of the Rising Sun?
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Yes, I have heard that. It’s funny though, you never hear it the other way around (House of the Rising Sun played to Amazing Grace… and that’s probably a good thing).
Yeah if it was up to me I would not install electronics either. I’m just lucky they let me play at church, so if it makes life easier for everyone concerning feedback from mics then I’m ok with installing the pickup. As long as it doesent hurt the acoustic unplugged sound…
Seriously, thank God for volunteers! Where would we be without them? I sure don’t know anything about sound, so y’all are all dynamite to me 
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I had never heard that but just googled it. Grass or not, that’s pretty catchy! That would get some chatter going from the older folks at church!
I had not. I’ll have to check it out. However, it was a tradition for a while that our caroling group would sing “o little town of Bethlehem” to the tune of HOTRS when moving from one house to another. It works amazingly well.
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I haven’t but I have noticed that amazing grace can be sung to (almost) any tune, Also (again, almost) any song can be sung to the tune of Gilligan’s island theme 
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