I was asked to play a song at our Christmas Eve service at church this last week. The song I was asked to play was,”Welcome to Our World” by Chris Rice.

Chris is a brilliant Singer/Songwriter and I totally love his music! So, I obviously jumped at the chance to play one of his songs. I did this song once before at a church function and I loved it then.

The song was originally written on and for the piano but since I don’t play the piano, I had to adapt it to the guitar. I spent some time reworking the chords and the key to get it right and I really like the way the arrangement came out. For the guitar nerds out there, I am using a capo on the 2nd fret and I dropped the low E string to D. This gave it a nice “low hum” quality when I did a full strum in the D position.

A quick note about the recording. I tried to record the live performance but there was so much ambient noise it wasn’t salvageable. I made this recording in a back room at our church using my little Zoom H2 Recorder. The quality of this little device continues to amaze me! The audio is a little low and there are a couple of “bobbles” with the vocal but whatcha gonna do.

Hope you all like it!!

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