By Guest Blogger | May 24, 2013
When it comes to training musicians and leaders for Concerts versus Church Worship Services, both of which can be useful in the Kingdom of God, many of the required skills are the same, but here is my list of the main differences in emphasis. Do you agree? Have I left some out? Give me some […]
By Guest Blogger | May 23, 2013
Ben Rea from New Zealand asks: “We have just started live streaming our services online. Do you know anything about the copyright implications of doing this or is a regular CCLI licence OK?” Rich Burrough from CCLI reponds: Some churches now make their services available on the internet, either as a downloadable audio or video […]
By Guest Blogger | May 21, 2013
We had an email from Dave at Cheam Baptist: “We have been wondering how best to provide sheet music for our musicians and are looking for an alternative to using numerous different songs of fellowship books. One option is to gradually build up a library of individual sheet music for each song then create an […]
By Marie@Musicademy | May 20, 2013
40% off flash sale. Learn to play by ear, without sheet music or chord charts We are offering our Play By Ear DVD set at a huge 40% off until the end of May. The course teaches you how to play by ear as well as gain a deeper understanding of what you can do with […]
By Guest Blogger | May 17, 2013
Creativity in Worship (Why I use loops) A few years ago I moved to a new house situated along the flight path into Manchester airport, one of the busiest airports in Northern England. The first few weeks consisted mainly of broken sleep and sudden shock as yet another noisy plane would cut through the air […]
By Kenny Lamm | May 16, 2013
Part 7 in our Transitioning to contemporary worship series. As East City Church transitions its worship service to a unified style of worship (see links below to previous articles in this series), they will need to identify people to serve on the vocal team in worship. ECC already has vocalists that sing in their contemporary […]
By admin | May 14, 2013
There is rarely one quick fix to improve the musicianship of your worship team. Individual tuition so that each musician can play competently as well as an emphasis on practice both as individuals and as a group will help hugely. But there are also plenty of more subtle and often overlooked issues to be […]
By Marie@Musicademy | May 10, 2013
Band Skills Seminar #3 The traditional rock band set up with the drummer at the back and the lead singer at the front is often adopted by church worship teams. Why is this so wrong and what alternatives are there? Andy Chamberlain and Tim Martin demonstrate in an interactive band skills seminar. Please note, we […]
By Guest Blogger | May 9, 2013
When does expression of passion go too far into performance instead of worship? One topic I get asked about a lot is the whole question of performance versus worship. Even this morning I received a email from a friend who posed the question “when does expression of passion go too far into performance instead of […]
By admin | May 8, 2013
Other posts you might like: Graham Kendrick on worship leading Graham Kendrick on the leadership role of musicians other than the worship leader Graham Kendrick on Psalm Surfing – his “how-to” guide Graham Kendrick on lyrics, the impact of the pop song in worship and choosing songs by theme Interview with Graham Kendrick – on […]
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