{"id":10659,"date":"2013-03-31T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T11:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2019-07-27T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T10:04:31","slug":"helping-the-congregation-learn-new-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/helping-the-congregation-learn-new-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping the congregation learn new songs – Transitioning – Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our last post on the challenges for a church moving from traditional to contemporary worship styles, East City Church continued its journey to worship renewal by producing a song list of known songs for the congregation and identifying new songs that will be introduced to the congregation. To fast track the worship transition, East City Church will do a variety of things to help the congregation make these new songs part of their worship vocabulary in an accelerated manner.<\/p>\n

There are several ways of attaining this goal:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a CD of the new songs for distribution. <\/strong><\/span>The easiest and most expensive way to do this is to secure copyright permission for professional recordings of the songs on the list. The least expensive avenue would be for the church’s worship team to record the songs themselves. Both projects require securing proper licenses, but the do-it-yourself project would incur less expenses for licenses. The in-house project would also insure that the songs are in good, singable keys<\/a>, which might not be the case on professional recordings. Your worship team would also give the church a recording that would sound more realistic to what they will experience in worship. No matter which direction ECC takes, they should:\n