Do You Speak Drum? Communicate Well With Your Drummer

Our verbal tone, punctuation, and at times body language speak on there own. And this is certainly true for musicians.

We sort of have our own language don’t we? We talk about builds and drops and dynamics. If you are a trained musician, then you have a leg up on the rest of us.

But for some of us weekend warriors, we’re just learning to fly. That’s why being able to communicate across the wide spectrum of musical knowledge is so important. We’re trying to speak a language that we may not be that comfortable with.

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Worship Music News: New Releases (May 29, 2012)

Hey, some great music available this week! Also be sure to grab last week’s new release from Delirious? as well.

If you’re an independent worship artist and you would like to be included in this list please email any information to editor@theworshipcommunity.com AHEAD OF TIME. We’ll do our best to include you in the list! [Read more...]

Sunday Setlists #201

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 27, 2012

Welcome to the 201st consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists!”

Share your experiences from your worship gatherings. How’d it go today?

What songs did you sing? What creative elements did you incorporate into your service? Any special readings, videos, or songs?

Join others from all over as we share our Sunday Setlists!

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Sunday Setlists #200 (Take A Picture!)

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 20, 2012

Welcome to the 200th consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists!”

That’s right! We’ve shared stories, insights, recaps, setlists, ideas, and just about anything you can think of for the last 200 weeks! When we started Sunday Setlists we thought it would be a neat way to connect worship leaders, musicians, pastors, and team members through a little blog link carnival.

It’s been amazing to see the different recaps and confessionals shared over the last 200 weeks!

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Keeping The Main Thing…The Main Thing

Can Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing Help Bridge the Worship Generation Gap?

Many feel the worship wars have been fought, and that our congregations destined to be divided into ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ forever.  The question is – does it have to be so?  Perhaps we should take another look at the music and the lyrics we are using and see where that leads us.

This is not a discussion of musical taste and style. I think these are definitely important, but are not the main issue. Style is something that can be easily modified to suit many listeners.  In the words of my friend Tom Kline – why do we have more participation singing ‘Sweet Caroline’ at a baseball game than in many churches?  What I mean is, a great song is a great song.  A great song, with a good hook and a catchy melody, will be sung by everyone.  Worship leaders can choose great songs and transcend musical style boundaries. It is not that hard. [Read more...]

Worship Music News: New Releases (May 15, 2012)

Hey, some great music available this week!

If you’re an independent worship artist and you would like to be included in this list please email any information to editor@theworshipcommunity.com AHEAD OF TIME. We’ll do our best to include you in the list! [Read more...]

Happy Mother’s Day! Sunday Setlists #199

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mothers Day!!

Welcome to the 199th consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists.” Hard to believe we’re only 1 away from TWO HUNDRED! The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week.

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Is Your Worship Team Too Exclusive?

Thanks to Steve Ball for sharing this post with TWC. Originally published at: http://stevejball.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/worship-bands-and-exclusivity/

From the age of about eleven I’ve always been involved in playing in a band. In the early days I was the drummer (which may surprise some as I now rarely get to play them!). Other members included bass, piano, sax and singers. After a few years together we even recorded a couple of albums which are thankfully now collecting dust on bookshelves somewhere!

As time went on and we got more involved in worship at church, I was needed to play the piano/keyboards more as we had other good drummer. I also dabbled with the guitar and flute (not at the same time) which was really good fun. I loved exploring new musical ideas and with the tight musical set up that we had, this was easy and very effective. [Read more...]

Worship Music News: New Releases (May 8, 2012)

Hey, some great music available today!

If you’re an independent worship artist and you would like to be included in this list please email any information to editor@theworshipcommunity.com AHEAD OF TIME. We’ll do our best to include you in the list!

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Sunday Setlists #198

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 06, 2012

Welcome to the 198th consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists.” Hard to believe we’re only 2 away from TWO HUNDRED! The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week.

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