Gibson Robot Guitar…Changing Worship One Leader At A Time
I have lots of thoughts. But watch this first…
So I actually get to demo one of these on Wednesday.
I am pretty pumped.
But not about the guitar and its playability.
I am more excited that this invention will single handedly change worship around the world.
It will keep less worship leaders from blabbing and committing blasphemy from stage as they tune their guitars.
A blabbing worship leader can do more damage to the inerrancy of Scripture in 90 seconds of tuning than you will ever know.
An out of tune guitar is the single worst fear of a teaching pastor.
Trust me.
I might lead someone to Buddha if my strings are old.
Los
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Soon you won’t have to strum either
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Popping out of my RSS reader to LOL and Amen to this. I’ve heard some of the craziest smack from some of the best worship leaders while they fiddle about with guitars. I’m sure this will take care of eeeeverything!
I just messed my drawers.
Can I get a few more amens people!!!
“Dear Lord… We thank You for being You. And for being me…and um…for me loving me…”
Ever since I’ve seen this promo out and about, I keep wondering how lazy we’ll become in our playing. The Holy Observer even posted a funny article along the same lines with ‘The Worship Leader Guitar’ that would auto adjust for which ever key you’d like to play in so all you’d ever have to know were G, C, D and Em
HOWEVER, your point here is the first time I’ve actually thought about this in a sincere manner because I totally agree! I’ve been there/done that and have seen and heard it done before as well.
This is pretty awesome. Although… I’m skeptical about how consistent it is. Please report back.
Unfortunately… most worship leaders cant drop the outrageous bill for one of these.
I’m down with it. That was the first thing I thought about as well when I saw this earlier. Hopefully it will make transitions a little less awkward at times. However, I’m all for just letting the last song settle for a moment while the band tunes. I usually use that time to pray and sometimes a wordy worship leader can pull me away from that moment when I have to pause and ask myself “Did they just say what I think they said?”.
I was wondering when I would see the first one on stage. Guess I won’t have to wait long, eh?
this hurts my classic rock n roll heart.
que ridiculo!
as a tele player, i wish fender did it first. but hopefully they can incorporate this into the hummingbird or j45 acoustics. hmmmmm
I’ve got to add another Amen to the discussion. I used to lead worship, and now I preach on occasion. I’ve learned that in both areas, saying less is more. In my VERY humble opinion, most of the time when a worship leader decides to share a thought between songs it’s more likely to distract from worship than add to it.
Once I started preaching, i realized I’ll sometimes spend 30 hours thinking, praying, researching, and writing what I’ll say up front for 25 minutes. So for each five minutes I talk, I’ve spent hours preparing. Then someone on stage stops to share their off-the-cuff thoughts. They may be good! But you just never know
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My best example was a few years back at a church I visited, when the service was addressing people who had experienced depression and other difficult times. The worship leader had just prayed for those who had been through those times. Then, in the prayer, he transitioned, saying, “and Lord, for those of us who are normal…”
Ouch.
ha… waffling worship leader syndrome…. it affacts us all at some point
gibson robot guitar = sacrelige!!!
if a worship leader can’t tune his guitar… geez i shouldn’t get started.
some of the best advice about speaking while leading worship was from evangelist, Adrian Despres… he said: “you know God may hold you (a worship leader) more accountable for what you say up there than me. when i speak, people are seated, their minds are active and shut… they might be thinking ‘i don’t buy into what this guy is saying’… but when you, the worship leader, say anything from the stage, people are standing, their hearts are open, music is playing… they’re going to believe anything you tell them.”
so, for the next 6 months, i didn’t say anything from the stage other than, “stand and worship,” until i read the bible from cover to cover and got my theology straightened out. in my opinion, worship leaders need to be really careful about saying anything before God… not to mention that we have to know the scriptures to make sure the songs we sing actually line up with them.
As if Les Paul’s didn’t weigh enough already. That is a pretty cool idea though. Now if they can figure out someway to adjust it on the fly when it goes outa wack when you are playing.
holy crap! this is cool. definitely could lessen the “need” for 15 guitars on stage.
i hate the idle chatter time. sure, i’ll speak up during a set here and there, but it’s usually in response to what we’ve just done, or setting up what we’re going to do … there’s not much spiritual response to tuning (another thing I HATE doing in mid-set) or filling time during “technical difficulties” … i’m just not a good impromptu communicator from the stage. my fall-back mostly always something from Louie’s Indescribable message.
this is exactly the reason why i’ve long been advocating for all worship to be led by a trombone player. trombones are constantly being tuned – every note – it’s one big tuning slide and you don’t have to worry about strings and tuners and all that guitar stuff. just empty the “water” every once and a while and it’s all good. rockin’ the trombone.
you really don’t know how serious i am about this. i’m pretty sure it’s biblical, too. i just can’t find the verse right now. know what i mean? it’s in there. i read it once but i switched Bibles and my new concordance doesn’t have it. but i’ll find it.
I know what you’re talking about. I’ve played guitar with worship leaders when they go off on some tangent. You’re standing there playing a G chord for 5 minutes.
Granted it might be some worthwhile information but dude, reel it in, don’t talk for 5 minutes on the different postures of worship while you’re onstage leading worship!
As for the guitar, it’s cool. However I’m concerned about the direction this will go. Kids are already NOT playing guitar by playing Guitar Hero. Now kids won’t even know how to tune a guitar on their own.
ok, wow.
1) i also messed my drawers.
2) i want one yesterday.
3) this won’t help the 93% of worship leaders who play taylors.
4) this won’t fix the worst problem – the worship leader who attempts to pray while gently strumming or finger picking his/her guitar for that gentle, churchy effect, then has long pauses because it’s hard to make up a prayer and play an instrument at the same time. this will probably be a feature of robot guitar 2.0, though.
5) worship leaders whose only qualification is that they can play guitar – well, that’s regrettably not going to be solved via a robot guitar. i think that’s just a case where senior leadership needs to step up and keep those folks accountable.
but then again, maybe the worship leaders can score a church-subsidized les paul out of it …
Yes its sweet, but the folks sitting in the front row get the enjoyment of listening to terminator tuning during the prayer.
Also, it’d be sweet if they sold an upgrade package of some sort for people who aren’t willing to drop $2,499 on a new guitar. That way we could simply install it on our guitars we already own.
-cD
That’s pretty cool…you still need a tuner though, or something that you can press so that the guitar is SILENT when you actually do strum all 6 strings at once to get into tune.
OR…you don’t silence it, and then proceed to windmill strum until it’s in tune. that’ll pump ‘em up in the balcony seats!
I’m actually surprised this hasn’t come along sooner.
I got no problems with that. If it works like it says it does, it’s pretty cool. I can’t imagine if the guitar started wiggin’ out though. It’d probably walk right off stage.
in response to steve28…. I wonder if the tuning button/knob automatically silences the output???
-cD
this is totally completely ghey.
also, i am guilty of saying pretty random stuff in between tuning and capo changes at times. silence is usually less damaging!
Not so sure about this one. It seems like it may have some benefits but more distractions. It seems like we cannot find enough ways to use technology to make life more complicated. Los your point is well taken but I can just see this thing going nuts on stage. Then the problem is worse than before b/c you have a guitar that has a mind of its own. I think that preparation, not only musically, is just as important for musicians as it is for pastors.
But the dentist drill tuning noise?
“Hold on while my guitar tunes itself”
“WheeEEEEEEEEeeee!!!!
And instead of mindless chatter, WPs get to yell “1,2,3!” while they push the button.
I know the guy who invented this, he’s from Germany, Chris Adams. His brother-in-law plays on out worship team. It works great for drop D stuff and alternative tuning.
So what did you think? All the peeps are buzzing.