Amazing Grace – just the black notes

whether black or white, rich or poor, we are all connected; we are all in need of His Amazing Grace! :D wow! 

 

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28 Responses to “Amazing Grace – just the black notes”

  1. James Wilson Says:
    July 30, 2008 at 12:31 am | Reply

    I just view the Amazing Grace – Just The Black Notes, and throughly enjoyed it. There is an education to be gained from that and as well as an opportunity reach out to the Lord. Thank you for making it possible for all to veiw and enjoy.
    James Wilson

  2. PJ Bahr Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 8:52 am | Reply

    I am absolutely dazed at my computer having watched this incredible video. I think this should be broadcast on all networks all over the world…………. often!!! THANK YOU to the person who posted this. Very sincerely, PJ Bahr

  3. David B Says:
    August 6, 2008 at 3:38 am | Reply

    I saved this rendition by Whitley Phipps and it needs to be on everybody’s computer.

  4. Janet Gates Says:
    August 6, 2008 at 9:10 pm | Reply

    Watching a huge audience in complete awe says much for the presentation.
    It touches the mind , the soul, and the heart. The story behind ” amazing grace ” was unknown to me, but a wonderful revalation———————–
    This is for me the very best video I have ever seen and heard————–I pray it touches so many who suffer personal indignities, pain, suffering and all those things that make one lose heart to survive.
    It lifts up the spirit—————- and mention that mountains were they smooth could not be climbed—————- reassures us life without obstacles could not be lived.

  5. C Lynes Says:
    August 8, 2008 at 5:00 am | Reply

    AMAZING GRACE, AND AN AMAZING VOICE!!!! I enjoyed hearing the message behind the song. I’m sure many people didn’t know that bit of info given by Whintley Phipps, (former colleague of mine).

    Thank you for this inspiring clip!!!

  6. Dmar Says:
    August 13, 2008 at 8:32 am | Reply

    I am moved by the message and lifted by Mr Phipps voice and his spirit. I am so moved I am in a trance. I will remember his voice and his message always. I help thinking over and over again what a wonderful man. I will send this to everyone I know and maybe even a radio station as well so that it reaches everyone.
    What a Blessing
    dtsm

  7. Aaron Says:
    August 15, 2008 at 11:27 pm | Reply

    Whitley is the best baritone singer so rich and full very collegiate astute!!! I always believed that John Newton never wrote the this confirms my belief slaves could not own anything so the master took the credit for the song!!!! Connect the two dots and put them together its a spiritual based on an african melody!!! He almost made me cry when he imagined himself singing like the slave!!!

  8. Denise Says:
    August 23, 2008 at 6:33 am | Reply

    Beautiful, touching, loved it…..

  9. Kathy Says: Says:
    August 26, 2008 at 11:37 pm | Reply

    WOW!!!

    I always enjoy Westley singing and this is wonderful, would enjoy more!!!!

    Beautiful, touching, awsome!!!!

    All America needs to hear this. Don’t stop!!! We all would enjoy more!!!

  10. Denise Says:
    September 8, 2008 at 2:20 am | Reply

    This was very educational and a beatiful — I listened to this over and over again — Thanks for taken the time to pass this around the world. Thanks again

  11. Tim Says:
    September 8, 2008 at 2:36 am | Reply

    I would love to show my 5th grade music class this clip. We are studying the “pentatonic scale” with spirituals. Our school system blocks YouTube access. If anyone knows how I might be able to get a file of this video, please let me know! My students really need to see and hear this message.

    Thanks,

    TIM

  12. Cheryl Says:
    September 16, 2008 at 8:59 pm | Reply

    Amazing. Incredible. This needs to be shown on all major television networks.

  13. Cyndee Says:
    September 18, 2008 at 2:27 am | Reply

    Listening to this in Houston just a few days after Hurricane Ike brought me to tears. I love this song and hearing him sing it rings in to one’s soul. Just what I needed today. I wish I could broadcast it all along the coastline.

  14. Georgia Says:
    September 28, 2008 at 12:53 am | Reply

    Just beautiful, inspiring, hopeful!

  15. JAMES BUTLER Says:
    September 28, 2008 at 9:05 am | Reply

    Please, is there a DVD that I may purchase?

    IN HIS NAME

    JAMES BUTLER

  16. larry broussard Says:
    October 7, 2008 at 10:28 pm | Reply

    i learned som e thing today, GOD bless

  17. Colin Baird Says:
    November 14, 2008 at 7:46 am | Reply

    Very moving indeed.

  18. Eric Alleyne Says:
    November 29, 2008 at 12:05 pm | Reply

    Great , extremely well done. Can one get it on a DVD?

  19. Terri Hopkins Says:
    January 24, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Reply

    AMEN!

  20. Chuck Johnson Says:
    January 28, 2009 at 5:38 am | Reply

    It is amazing how GOD created all things pure to reflect, point to, and cause all to acknowlege HIM.

    HIS Grace is unspeakable in accurate definition, incomprehensible in its’ tangibility, and immeasurable in its benefit to mankind.

  21. Marion Williams Says:
    February 5, 2009 at 4:56 am | Reply

    What a wounderful presentation of Amazing Grace.

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    February 10, 2009 at 1:35 am | Reply

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  23. Curtis L. Jones Says:
    March 16, 2009 at 2:40 am | Reply

    This was sent to me by my brother from SC. I knew that if he passed this on that it had to be good. But when I heard this I had to pass it on to evryone in my address book. To learn this was truly awesome. To hear him sing this was truly truly awesome. To watch the audience and their response spoke for it self. I want to know if this recording is available on CD. I would love to get more from this amazing artist. What a blessing he has. Truly god sent. At a time when we could all use some up lifting.

  24. Kate Grieshaber Says:
    March 18, 2009 at 1:20 am | Reply

    It would be great for World Music Cultures class students to tease out the number of mis-assumptions present in this video. I would hope this exploration it would lift the “scales from their eyes.”
    For example check out the following strands:
    Read about the woman music researcher who did some of the first recordings of Africans–How she tuned them up before recording them because the poor souls were so “out of tune” (according to her cultural filter of the Western scale). Not only that, but these Africans’ rhythm was really off (before realizing other culture’s rhythms could be far more complex than “ours”). Her recordings are amazing; her assumptions albeit well-intentioned, were obviously biased and serve as a “case in point” for today’s beginning ethnomusicologists.
    Read the discussion about locating a Gambian for playing kora for the film “Roots,” the different tuning systems, oral traditions, power of the griot in Jali Kunda: Griots of West Africa and Beyond.
    Find information about tuning systems prior to Johann Sebastian Bach. Why did Bach and other composers decide on the well tempered scale and use the pianoforte to advance their “cause”?
    How does tuning differ for each kora in the old African kingdoms (especially good information re the Griots of the Mali Empire)? Were African musicians familiar with instruments from the west (since AFrican empires existed long before pianos had been developed)? How familiar were African musicians to Islamic music? How do musicians trace the blues notes and other notes not fitting into a piano keyboard or western tuning system?
    Which keyboard instruments–clavichords, klavinets, harpsichords and pianos–have upper register keys that are other colors than black? Which have white “black keys” and black “white keys”?
    Why was any musical expression (singing, dancing, and drumming) banned on ships and plantations? Explore music from cakewalks and revival meetings.
    Which slave ships were taken over through insurrection and how was this achieved?
    Why was powers of musicians not spoken of by Africans?

  25. Bob Wasson Says:
    April 12, 2009 at 9:11 am | Reply

    Tim,
    Ask your system administrator to open the port to allow this as part of your course – I work in an IT unit and know it can be done. It is something that many should hear! God bless!
    Bob

  26. Shirley Seales Says:
    October 13, 2009 at 11:02 am | Reply

    I enjoyed listning to the history behind this wonderful spiritual song, played only on the Black notes,and sung by Whitley Phipps.
    GOD truely is an Mazing Grase.

  27. Diana Seixas Says:
    November 9, 2009 at 6:18 am | Reply

    Many in this country forget that we owe much of our growth and prosperity in America to the slaves that came over and tilled the soil for cotton and tobacco which were our biggest exports in the early days of this Republic. I am so glad that he not only chose the first verse but also the last verse of Amazing Grace because that is the true meaning of all the Christian scriptures. “When we’ve been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun, we’ve no less days to sing God’s praise as when we first begun.”

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