Free resources for Christmas worship services

Yes I know its only November but last year we got a few complaints that many of the free resources and ideas we were posting about in December were far too late for choir rehearsals and the planning of Christmas services. So this year, here is a brief post with a summary of the most […]

Why and how to play to a click - a guide for worship teams

Why play with a click/metronome? -In all music, but especially modern pop/rock music, playing “tight”=accurately in time is huge!  It will make almost all your songs sound better, more consistent.  Think about what happens to a song when it speeds up or slows down or just starts at the wrong tempo.  It changes the feel […]

A buyer's guide to hand drums and percussion

A buyer’s guide to hand drums: What to look for, where to buy stuff, what should be in your instrument portfolio when you are starting out as a hand drummer? By Mark Jones (Psalm Drummers) Mark Jones is the presenter of our new hand drumming and percussion DVD. Here he gives a buyers guide to […]

Merry Xmas - Are we really taking the Christ out of Christmas?

We asked an innocent little question on Facebook today: “Can anyone tell us why North Americans use the term Happy Holidays rather than Happy Christmas? And what do you think about that?” The whole “Happy Holidays” thing sounds really strange to us in the UK, but that’s probably because we don’t have the same run […]

Has worship music lost its soul?

  So, you’ve been standing in the pews for about 20 minutes, and the band is showing no sign of letting up. You didn’t know the last two songs, your mind starts wandering, and a dangerous question pops into your head: ‘Could a blindfolded monkey write some of our worship songs?’ It may sound like […]