Church Audio: Finding Your Guitar Solo

Jonathan Umfleet

I’m the lead sound engineer at Newberg Foursquare Church in Oregon. Music has been a big part of my life from an early age. Originally a classically trained violinist, I’m now a passionate soundman who enjoys raising the roof with a full-on Pentecostal worship band. I’m a native Oregonian and I love my gorgeous wife, my three awesome kids, and more cowbell.

Finding your guitar solo. If anybody has ever had the chance to listen to Lincoln Brewster speak, his story will be familiar. He tells of when he first left the worldly music scene and was starting to play guitar in church, he played very conservatively because he wasn’t sure if the congregation was ready for “his style.” One day, he couldn’t stand it any longer and just let loose and played some amazing solo riff and thought “maybe they won’t ask me t...

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