Worship Fertilizer
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Rehearsal Coaching
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Whether it's your worship band, garage band, or touring band, you can have Ad Lib Music come to a rehearsal and help you get to the next level!
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Guest Blogging
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It was super fun to write a guest blog on Jon Nicol's amazing site: worshipteamcoach.com
I'd love to do that for your blog too!
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Coaching Moments
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A moment in time with a seasoned coach who will listen well, speak into your situation and life, and give you new energy to tackle your challenge can make all the difference.
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Worship Team Retreat
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"What Dave presented was practical, timely, and God-inspired - we are still talking about what an awesome time we had together!"
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Communicate!
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How does your church communicate? Use the same affordable tool we use and we both get 30 bucks!
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Feed my Sheep!
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Strengthen the people in your worship ministry with these great weekly devotions
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Practical, common-sense answers to your questions. You'll like it!
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November 3 at 9 AM
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Every other month, worship leaders in Harrisburg and the surrounding areas gather to enrich, educate, and encourage each other.
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Greetings!
52 Worship Training Events? What?!
So when you went to your worship team rehearsal this week, what skill did you plan on working on with your team? Did you just learn the songs or did you learn how to play music together?
Because it's the prefect lab for growth really: Two hours, five songs, and six (or three!) musicians PLUS the desire to learn and just a smidge of intentionality, and BAM! you've got a mini-seminar. And you can have 52 of them every year...at YOUR church with YOUR people! And it's stinkin' free!
Or you can just get the songs learned for this Sunday. (bleh!)
Sure, your team might accidentally get a tad better (or they might stay relatively the same for the next year). Look behind you to see how far (or short) you've come. Do you have the same nagging musical irritations over and over?
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How do you actually start doing this?
Simply and one small step at a time. Hey, this is the real world. You may be struggling to just put your song list together, or you may be doing all you feel you can do just to get there and strap on your bass, let alone prepare.
So this challenge is going out to worship leaders and to team members...since you're each responsible to double your talents. Seriously (don't get Matthew twenty-fived). That's part of why God gave them to you to manage. And let me ask you this: If you were managing someone else's talents the way you're managing your own, would you fire yourself? (thank you, Dave Ramsey)
Choose one skill to work on in one song for that week. Relax and play what you know for the others, but intentionally focus and stretch in this one song. Consider doing it first so that it has the potential of influencing all the other songs.
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Skills? What skills?
Dynamics, listening, groove, steady tempo, build, tuning, blend, accents, different styles, listening (you're right, I did already say that), playing in fractions, memorization, improvisation, listening (yep), modern sound, you get the idea. Here are some samples:
- Work dynamics with 10,000 Reasons - play the chorus super loud, the verses super quiet, and use the musical interludes at the end of each to set up the next section.
- Take a familiar song, like Our God, and play it once together, once with just the bass and drums (having the piano and guitars listen), then once with just the piano and guitars playing (having the bass and drums listen), and then all together. Then talk about what each of them heard.
- Get the metronome out (oh boy), and play Be The Centre at the typical 67 BPM. Then at 87 BPM. Then at 107 BPM. Or take a song you always do at 90 BPM, and try doing it at 83 BPM.
- Use a remade hymn like Jesus Paid It All and have all the singers circle up tightly and sing it without mics to really focus on blending and owning the words.
- Use a song born from the river (Bethel, IHOP, Life Center...O Taste And See, My Soul Longs for You, Faithful) and "plan" for spontaneous improvisation at the end of the song. Have a different member of the band pick the chord progression to use.
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The bottom line is this:
If your only growth plan is Ad Lib Music's Rehearsal Coaching (which is great) or going to seminars and conferences (which are awesome), you're missing the biggest opportunity for growth. Really. It happens weekly. At your rehearsal.
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Tomorrow, Saturday November 3rd at 9 AM, worship leaders in Harrisburg and the surrounding areas gather to enrich, educate, and encourage each other. Join us and find out more on Facebook!
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Ánimo!
Dave Helmuth
Ad Lib Music...coaching and resourcing for the worship arts
962 East Orange Street, Lancaster, PA 17602
Phone - 717.468.6428
www.AdLibMusic.com
Ánimo: courage, refresh, transform, bring to life, encourage,
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