No, I haven’t forgotten song 165 – all will be explained tomorrow.
This song by Jesse Manibusan is very useful and is played often at our church. We have used it to frame the prayers of the faithful for special occasions and we did use it as a gospel acclamation for a long time. The very beautiful original can be heard here. It is very restrained, which is difficult to achieve with an assembly singing it, so don’t expect the subtlety heard there. This is more what your going hear in church.
It can be purchased for download at OCP.
Jesse Manibusan sings it with a preamble here where you can see and hear the fingerpicking style he uses. For more basic guitarists (ie me) capo 2nd fret.
Open my eyes, Lord
Help me to see your face
Open my eyes, Lord
Help me to see.Open my ears, Lord
Help me to hear your voice
Open my ears, Lord
Help me to hear.Open my heart, Lord
Help me to love like you
Open my heart, Lord
Help me to love.I live within you
Deep in your heart, oh, love
I live within you
Rest now in me.
© Jesse Manisuban 1988.
Hi,
At our church we have the full set of discs for AOV Volume 1 and 2. We use these when we have no singers but no musicians. However, some of our choir have suggested that rather than singing along with the vocals on those hymns, they would like to sing with only backing tracks (no recorded vocals). Thought I had found the right site but am lost. How do we beg, borrow, steal or pay for the music only backing tracks from AOV Volume 1. For next Sunday, Thirtieth Sunday, would love to get Open My Eyes Lord, On Eagle’s Wings, All the Ends of the Earth and We Walk By Faith.
Thanks
If I can interject, here’s three suggestions:
1. Use Geoff’s backings on this site: connect a device that can run a browser to your church’s sound system and I don’t believe you’ll have any problems.
2. Look at YouTube for instrumental recordings: there’s every chance you’ll be in luck for traditional and U.S. hymns, but, unfortunately, there’s little chance for any of the Australian ones. A particularly good source is https://www.youtube.com/@LiturgicalMusic.
A very talented lady plays practise tracks on piano typically with multiple versions including piano only, melody only, SATB parts and SATB together. It’s an amazing channel!
Your hymns for this week may be found at the following links:
Open My Eyes, Lord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwT5Nk9ZQx4
On Eagle’s Wings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxZzD-_1CLY
All the Ends of the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZmHL8i11sY
We Walk by Faith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykgqMLg0o2c
I believe that if you have YouTube Premium you can download the videos and not worry about Internet failure!
3. While probably too late for this week, why not record your instrumentalists alone when they are available. If someone has a better quality phone, you should be able to make quite decent recordings.