What’s our goal? [Part 1 of 3] Hi! I’m Sacha. Let me introduce myself and share my reason for writing about this topic. I have had a heart for worship for a while and I’ve led in a variety of different styles of church. I’ve been a modern worship leader for only three years, whereas […]
Here’s a free lesson from Musicademy’s Beginning Worship Guitar Course which is available both on DVD or as downloads. This is quite an early lesson in the course and teaches the chords Cadd9, G and Em7 and how to use these in sequence. The lesson also covers using a pick, bars and counting. This is […]
Christmas Carols: MultiTracks and Split Tracks We have a huge 22 carols in our backing tracks library now. Click through below to listen to audio samples and to buy: Angels We Have Heard On High/Angels From The Realms of Glory Christmas Offering Hark The Herald Angels Sing Joyful Joyful Joy To The World O Come All […]
New electric guitar video series by Matt Isaac Welcoming guitarist Matt Isaac to our team of bloggers with the first of a series of videos exploring ways of creating electric guitar parts in worship. This first video is quite “talky” but those coming up in the future are a lot more hands-on. Space and dynamic […]
Two stories: Christmas carol service, doing “Silent Night”. I had set it on mandolin with a very simple strummed guitar background, very few chords, very gentle and folksy. The keyboard player kept twitching and saying it wasn’t “Christmassy enough” so we had a chat, and he set up a nice big church organ sound, and […]
(Being the pianist/organist, part 1: The GOAL) Hi again, You may recall my first post on this subject a few weeks back? We established that our goal was to enable the congregation to be present with God. So that’s our aim. Now we need to work on exactly how we achieve that. For me as organist, […]
A singer in your congregation has a passion for worship, and has approached you about joining your music team. You have a heart to use people’s gifts, and this person is clearly well-trained musically, has a genuine faith, and is keen to serve. But it soon becomes clear that their singing style is very ‘classical’ […]