Music To Pray By Podcast 85

Fifteen weeks in. Podcast 85 is up.

Six Selahs this week, pulled from the morning streams as always — and a behind-the-scenes update I’m genuinely excited about, for the curious among you.

In This Episode

Six spontaneous pieces, drawn from two mornings — May 21 and May 25. The timestamps match the YouTube chapters, and each link goes back to the full morning the piece came from:

0:00 Selah in B — from the 5-21-2026 stream, Song 1

5:05 Selah in F — from the 5-21-2026 stream, Song 4

9:23 Selah in D — from the 5-21-2026 stream, Song 6

16:51 Selah in D — from the 5-25-2026 stream, Song 3

22:07 Selah in C — from the 5-25-2026 stream, Song 4

28:12 Selah in C — from the 5-25-2026 stream, Song 5

Teaching a Machine to Hear Tempo

Here’s the update. When I play live, I breathe with the music — speeding up, pulling back, sitting in a moment. That’s the life of it, but it’s also the hardest part to clean up afterward. The editing software (Logic’s Smart Tempo) tries to map all that ebb and flow onto a grid so the notes line up, and it gets it mostly right — which means I spend a lot of quiet hours nudging the rest of it back by hand.