Intermediate Worship Keyboards - Box Set
The sampler video above covers both the Beginner and Intermediate Worship Keyboard DVDs.
The Intermediate Course will enable students to:
- Approach the keyboard as a chords based instrument and lose your dependency on the music score
- Integrate added, suspended and extended chords into your playing
- Use inversions and alternative voicings for smoother playing
- Develop left and right hand rhythm skills to fit the "groove" of the song
- Improvise using melodic fills, auxiliary and passing notes
- Use string, pads, electric piano and organ sounds
- Develop techniques for leading worship as a keyboard player
- Choose the right equipment for you
- Understand the tools that help you play by ear
Intermediate volume 1
- Chords - tones and semitones, major chords, minor chords, slash chords
- Using chords as the basis for playing featuring the song How Great is Our God
- Using rhythm featuring the song Let Everything That Has Breath
- Time signatures
Intermediate volume 2
- Melodic fills and improvisation - chord notes, passing notes, auxiliary notes
- Using songs - playing slow songs, playing fast songs including Once Again and Forever
- The major scale
- Keys
- Nashville numbering system
- Introduction to ear training
Intermediate volume 3
- Using the left hand well - featuring Faithful One, Everlasting God, Amazing Grace
- Using different sounds
- More advanced chords
- Leading worship from keys
- Spontaneous playing
- Getting the right gear
2 hours of teaching on each of 3 DVDs including interviews and advice from worship leaders Stuart Townend, Brenton Brown, Vicky Beeching, Tim Neufeld (Starfield), Tommy Walker, Noel Richards, Leeland Mooring and Andy Piercy (producer for Delirious? and Graham Kendrick).
Plus - backing tracks for daily practice and play throughs with the Musicademy band.
Songs featured include:
- Let Everything That Has Breath
- How Great is Our God
- Once Again
- Give Thanks to the Lord Our God and King
- Faithful One
- Everlasting God
Who is it for?
If you are already a relatively accomplished player (i.e. already playing regularly in a worship band - including those playing using the full musical score) or have significant classical experiece (say to grade 5 or higher) then this is the right set for you. It begins with really nice simple lesson introducing how to play using chords and then gets more challenging.
If having done the first chapter in Intermediate you then feel that the learning is progressing too quickly then jump back to Beginners volumes 3 and 4 to practice the chords based playing with relatively simple pieces. Once you are confident with these you can then return to the rest of the Intermediate set.
If you don't feel ready for the Intermediate set then have a look at the Beginners set instead. Many people who already play a little, or perhaps learned as children like to start again with Beginers volume 1 so that they learn the basics properly. This is particularly important if you have only previously played using the musical score (dots on a page) and are new to our chords-based method of playing.
What is there for people between Beginners and Intermediate standard?
Our Song Learner lessons are perfect for people that already know the basics of chords based playing and just want to practice with lots of different songs. The Song Learner lessons are online only (i.e. not on DVD) and sit between Beginners and Intermediate in terms of ability levels.
What about the Advanced Worship Keyboard DVDs?
These are designed for people who have all the musical know-how from the Intermediate DVD course but want to explore more about differen keyboard sounds. The Advanced DVDs unpack the multiple keys parts to 10 professional worship song recordings so that you can recreate those sounds in a live setting.
What else is available to help me practice?
We have a DVD called Worship Backing Band - Musicians Practice Tracks which contains 54 worship songs that you can play along with. Practice is a lot more fun with other people! You can select to take the vocals out of the mix so you are effectively the singer with a pro band. Its like high quality worship karaoke. The DVD shows on-screen words and chords so if you play an instrument you can also play along as you sing.
Will the DVDs work on my DVD player?
The DVDs are NTSC and coded Region 0 which means they will play anywhere in the world.
Can I get a refund if I don't like the DVDs?
Yes, you are also covered by our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee if having received the DVDs you do not feel they are right for you.
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(Posted on 8/19/15) - Age 77 and a pipe organist but now a keyboard player of necessity! | Review by John
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I am a 77 yr old pipe organist (now of necessity a keyboard player – no pipe organ!) steeped in Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts et al, but I also love the best of what has been written in the last few decades of which I would put the songs by Stuart Townend and Graham Kendrick among the very best.
I thought the training and playing by your team was absolutely brilliant when they cam to Christ Church Bristol many moons ago, which is where I bought some keyboard DVD’s and signed up for your newsletters.
So do please keep them coming.
May our Heavenly Father continue to bless and prosper you in your work.
(Posted on 10/16/13) - Exactly what I've been looking for for years. | Review by B.W.
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I know that I will be returning to it again and again to remind me, and inspire me.
Excellent work by everyone involved. I look forward to moving on to the Advanced set (in a few years' time, no doubt!)
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