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 ...

I totally need to finish my "Day 3" post on Band Camp. I have been so overwhelmed with processing the events of last week I have not yet come to a place where I can properly articulate a post for my 3rd and last day of camp.So, for now, here is a video of me playing at the "Open Mic" thingie we had the last night. The audio is really bad but I still it is cool :-). Enjoy it for what it is. Chad playing at "Band Camp" from chad markley on Vimeo.Oh, here ...

I am taking a break this afternoon from a workshop to make this post and digest a few of the things that have been crammed in my brain and heart the last two days.Yesterday worship was led by Paul Baloche and Bob Kauflin. We were taught by both Bob Kauflin and Charlie Peacock. We had various breakout sessions on songwriting by the likes ...

Ok, I am up in the San Jose area at Mt Hermon Confrence Center attending the "Christian Songwriters Conference". My wife Sarah and my workmate, Terry Lu, were gracious enough to make it possible for me to come up here this weekend.I embarked on this weekend not knowing what to expect. Funny thing, most of the people that are up here have ...

I was talking with a friend the other day about this YouTube video I saw about Amazing Grace. This guy in the video claims the tune had been written on only the "black" notes of the piano. I did a really poor job of explaining it how the dude in the video did so here is the actual video.It has been viewed over 3 million times. It is long ...