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Giving Your Worship Team Options
I don’t like having to decide before a service exactly how I’m going to lead a song, how we should start it, how we should end it, or what (if anything) we’ll repeat. Until I’m actually leading the...
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Using a Capo Isn’t a Sign of Weakness (British Version)
My friend Matt Blick recently shared my video from last week about how “using a capo isn’t a sign of weakness” with the readers of his blog. Matt happens to live in England, so this means two things:...
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Not Hitting People with a Wall of Sound
On most recordings of congregational worship songs that you find these days, every upbeat song starts with the entire band playing all at once. There might be a measure or two of an electric guitar or...
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Waiting Until the Song is Really Finished
There are two extremes when it comes to leading songs in corporate worship. One extreme is to spend too much time on a song and sing it for so long that people are sick of it. Another extreme is to...
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Just Because That’s the Way They Recorded It…
I wrote a post a long time ago called “Just Because That’s the Key They’re Recorded In” which encouraged worship leaders to feel free (!) to change the keys of songs to make them more singable for the...
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Praise My Soul the King of Heaven
Having grown up in the Episcopal/Anglican church, one of the hymns I grew up learning to sing and love was “Praise My Soul the King of Heaven”. The first time you hear it the melody is a bit tricky....
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