Beyond the Beat - Fall 2012

Beyond the Beat

Music Newsletter for the USA Southern Territory

Fall 2012

Greetings!

Welcome back to Beyond the Beat - a newsletter from the Salvation Army's Southern Territorial Music Department.

I hope you enjoy the articles below. If there is something that you would like further information about or that you would like to share with other musicians around the territory in a future article, let me know.

God bless you!

Robert Snelson

Territorial Music Education Director

In This Issue

The Contemporary Guitarist

Singing Company Competition
Auditions: Territorial Band, Songsters, & Creative Arts Ensemble
Music Publications

Finale Tips

Feature Articles

The Contemporary Guitarist

Methods for the Worship Musician

For 26 years now, the Southern Territory has produced quality music and educational material designed to enhance worship. With the inception of Vision 2020 where we are striving to have live music and arts in every Corps by the year 2020, there is also a renewed effort to create resources that reflect the variety and breadth of worship mediums used in our services today.

To that end, the Territorial Music and Creative Arts Education Department, in cooperation with the Arkansas/Oklahoma Divisional Music and Arts Department, is proud to announce the release of our newest resource, The Contemporary Guitarist: Methods for the Worship Musician.

Written by Jimmy Cox, Divisional Corps Youth Worship-Evangelism & Outreach Director for the AOK Division, The Contemporary Guitarist is a complete guitar method series for those who wish to become an effective worship musician! This course is for anyone, even if you've never touched a guitar before. The book includes a CD containing all songs and exercises and an accompanying DVD, featuring Marty Mikles, Jimmy Cox, and Adely Charles. Using the DVD is like having your very own instructor for every lesson!

Level 1 includes: how to play all common open chords, complete with diagrams, photos, and exercises; songs by transMission, one of the Salvation Army's premier praise bands, as well as other classic hymns; suggestions for other popular songs that can be played at different points in the book; and QR code links to extra online content. By the end of this book, you will have a basic repertoire of songs you can use for worship. Once you finish with Level 1, you'll want to continue with Level 2 which is slated to be released next year and then Level 3 which will follow soon after.

In its draft form, this resource has already been used in regular Corps music programs; School for Performing Arts (SPA) programs; and Divisional Music Conservatories. A few divisions, in supporting Vision 2020, have even had full weekend retreats dedicated to teaching this curriculum to participants that represent every corps in the division. It has now been revised and published, making it available to everyone!

The Contemporary Guitarist: Methods for the Worship Musician is a great addition to the list of resources made available by The Salvation Army USA South. Through this book, we hope that you will become a skilled worship artist, so that you can bring your very best to the Lord with the music that you play!

For more information or to order you can contact the Southern Territory Trade Department (1-800-STORE-SA). The book is also now available through J. W. Pepper.

~ Leon Kirkpatrick

TMI 2012

The Southern Territory's Territorial Music Institute, otherwise known as TMI, is an 8-day intensive music & creative arts camp held annually at the end of each summer. With a lengthy history, TMI has helped to produce quality music and creative arts leaders across the Southern Territory and around the world for the past 60 years. With a wide range of instrumental, vocal, and creative arts instruction, and a variety of music and arts leadership seminars, TMI has been blazing the trail for Salvation Army music and creative arts leadership and instruction globally.

Special guests James & Marge Curnow joined the staff and delegates from around the territory and beyond for a wonderful week of music, creative arts, & worship at Camp Hoblitzelle in Midlothian, Texas. If you want to see what happened at TMI, check out the webcasts of some of our programs!

Solo Night

2013 Singing Company Competition

The USA Southern Territory Music Department is hosting a Territorial Singing Company Competition open to all corps singing companies in the Southern Territory. Each division will be having its own divisional competition later this year or in the spring of 2013. One winner from each division will be selected to compete at the territorial level in Atlanta during Commissioning Weekend in June 2013.

The ALM Division was the first division to host their competition, and the winner is...
Biloxi (MS) KROC. Congratulations!

Every singing company in the territory is encouraged to participate at the divisional level. If you don't have a singing company, now is the time to start one!

See your Divisional Music Director for details about your divisional competition. Click here

for full rules of the 2013 Territorial Singing Company Competition!

Auditions
Territorial Band, Songsters, & Creative Arts Ensemble

All Territorial music and arts groups (Band, Songsters, and Creative Arts Ensemble) are currently holding open auditions for the 2013 season in the fall. All auditions are due to arrive in the Music Department by October 22, 2012, so get them in soon!

For audition details and registration, click below:

Territorial Band

Territorial Songsters

Territorial Creative Arts Ensemble

Music Publications

Movement Training Resource

Moving with the Spirit

Moving with the Spirit is available through Trade nationwide for $24.95! It is designed to be a lasting resource for your movement ministry in the years to come. Get your copy today!!

Email here for more information!

Hallelujah Choruses

#191-200 Now Available!

Hallelujah Choruses, Volume 18 (#191-200) is now available through our Trade Department.

Call Trade to place your order today:

1-800--STORE-SA (1-800-786-7372)

Titles include:

#191 Be thou my vision
#192 Somebody prayed for me
#193 Soldier's hymn
#194 Every nation under heaven
#195 Hear our praises
#196 Take me life/ I am yours
#197 A mighty fortress
#198 In Jesus' name
#199 I stand in awe
#200 You are all around

Tips & Resources

Finale Tips: Expression Categories

Beginning in Finale 2009, the Expression Tool was redesigned to incorporate Expression Categories. This simple redesign can allow you to work much faster and with better looking output, yet many people still do not use this tool effectively.

Because most text expressions share many characteristics, the categories are an excellent upgrade. For example, if you want all dynamics to look the same, put all dynamic markings in the "Dynamics" category. This allows you to set the font and alignment rules for all dynamics in one place, keeping you from manually aligning dynamics as you had to before.

To set the font and alignment rules, select the expression tool and double-click anywhere on the staff. When the Edit Selection dialogue box appears, click "Edit Categories" in the bottom left corner.

Certain categories (Tempo Marks, Tempo Alterations, & Rehearsal Marks) include a special command called "Score Lists." These allow you to create lists of which parts or staves that the mark appears. For instance, on the score, you only want the initial tempo mark above the top staff (and maybe one or two others), but it must appear on every part. With a staff list, you only need to input the marking once, and it will appear everywhere you defined at once (top of score and all parts).

If you want to make an exception for individual items within a category, click on the expression and then click "Edit." In the new dialogue box, uncheck the box by "Use [Name] Category Fonts." Then you can change the font in the drop down menu underneath the check box.

If you always use the correct category for a text expression you can save yourself hours of work. Don't simply dump everything in the miscellaneous category!

Save customized expression lists in your templates, so you don't need to update them each time. Expression lists can also be saved (File>Save Library & check "Text Expressions") and loaded into other files. For full instructions on how use the Expression Categories, check your user manual.

Send Us Your Stories

Has your corps or division found a creative way to further the 2020 Vision? Share it with the territory!

In each upcoming issue of Beyond the Beat, a corps or division may be featured with how they have caught 2020 vision. Are you teaching someone new to play the guitar or piano? Do you have any budding drama or dance groups? Have you started a Singing Company or Beginner Band?

Send your stories to Robert Snelson, and you might be featured in the next issue of Beyond the Beat.

Upcoming Events

Territorial Band Recording

October 17-21

Atlanta, GA

Territorial Creative Arts Ensemble

October 17-21

Augusta, GA

Territorial Music Committee

January 14-16
Camp Happyland, VA

Territorial Band & Songsters

January 17-20

NCV Division

Territorial Creative Arts Ensemble

January 17-20
Atlanta, GA

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