22 Essential Traits of a Great Worship Musician These are in no particular order but are all important when auditioning a new potential band mate: 1. Is a member of the church and attends regularly 2. Takes direction well 3. Humble 4. Easy to work with 5. Skilled at one or more of the following: [...]
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22 Essential Traits of a Great Worship Musician
Posted: May 18, 2012 in Praise BandTags: Contemporary Christian music, Contemporary worship
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You’ve warmed up your voice, got through sound check, your strings are in tune, now it’s time to get your heart in tune. By: Laying your sins at your savior’s feet before leading the congregation in song. Be at peace with yourself, your fellow band members and the Pastor. Spend a few moments alone in [...]
Interviewing a New Candidate for the Praise Band
Posted: September 20, 2011 in How to Start, Praise BandWe ask: Do you practice your instrument on a regular basis? We should ask: Are you committed to God and to a life of worship? We ask: Do you have any band playing experience? We should ask: Can you control your temperament? We ask: How long have you been a member here? We [...]
Guitar Level: Intermediate As a guitarist who has been playing for almost 35 years, and playing in a three piece band that has another guitarist who has been playing for 3 years, I will do a little more than strum the basic chords. I need to leave this job to the less experienced guitarist, because [...]
Why Your Guitarist Needs to Know How to Read Music
Posted: August 9, 2011 in Praise BandTags: Guitar
I’ve heard the arguments before; “Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and David Gilmore don’t know how to read music, why should I have to?” First of all, I don’t know if that statement is true but I will say this, I’ve seen some of these guys play before, I’ve studied some of their music, and I’ve [...]
Where have all the choirs gone?
Posted: April 5, 2011 in Choir, Messiah Lutheran Church, Praise BandTags: Choir, Contemporary worship, I Choose You, MLS Choir
Actually and thankfully, many WELS churches still have choirs while a few have relied more heavily on “praise bands” to lead the congregation in musical worship. My church makes use of both, but the most important musical group is the congregation itself. As God’s people we are to lift up our voices in a unified [...]
Worship Prep
Posted: July 27, 2010 in Praise Band, Sing, Worship Idea, Worship MusicTags: Worship Preparation
As a musician, how do you prepare for worship? At our recent Branches Concert, I happened to step into our worship sanctuary about an hour before the concert and each musician was sitting alone quietly in their own corner of the room. One or two had a bible open, and others just sat quietly, I assume [...]
Guitarists …
Posted: April 30, 2010 in Book II: 42-72, Music, Praise Band, Worship MusicTags: Guitar, Psalm 45:8
When you approach a piece of sheet music; those chords are your world for the next 3 to 4 minutes and the hours that you will spend practicing the piece. But the interesting thing is that the musical arrangement does not tell you how to strum the chords. Will you strum, or fingerpick? Will you [...]
I had stated in an older post that when considering new church musicians, that heart was as important as skill. Last night I came across a scripture passage that just helped me on this subject so I wanted to share. “And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.” – Ps 78:72 [...]
I chose music for our blended worship services about two months in advance. If the song is new, there is a process that I follow to learn it. Up until now, this was an unwritten process and I suppose most of it is intuitively obvious; but if this helps just one person reading this BLOG, [...]
