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9 Keys to Maximize Rehearsal Time

March 4, 2013 by 4 Comments

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You’ve worked a hard day and would love to just get home for a hot meal and some R&R. You’re feeling tired and it seems the day should be winding down but there is still one more important meeting to attend: the weekly praise team rehearsal.

Most praise teams are staffed with volunteers who have busy lives. Although our primary objective should be preparing our teams so that we can lead effectively, getting our volunteers through rehearsal in a reasonable time frame is an added bonus.

Every rehearsal is different but there are certainly some steps we can take as leaders to honor the time of our devoted praise team members. By being prepared you can have a more effective, productive rehearsal which will potentially take less of your team’s time while still preparing them to lead with excellence and confidence. [Read more...]

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Custom Chord Charts in PlanningCenterOnline

March 1, 2013 by 15 Comments

Custom Chord Charts in PlanningCenterOnline from Fred McKinnon on Vimeo.

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Description: Using PlanningCenterOnline.Com, Fred McKinnon (Founder of TheWorshipCommunity.Com and blogging at FredMcKinnon.Com) shows how to make extensive use of the “Create Chord Chart” feature of PlanningCenter. Ideas on spacing chords for rhythm and using HTML tags to add band, vocal, and arrangement notes.

This tutorial will enhance your chord charts, arrangements, and cut down on rehearsal time.

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Proclaim Wants to Give You an iPad Mini: Enter Now

December 22, 2012 by 8 Comments


We’ve gotten wind of a great giveaway opportunity from Proclaim and wanted to pass it along to you! This is a time-sensitive giveaway so ENTER NOW!!

From Proclaim:

“Take control of your presentation with the free Proclaim remote app. You’ll navigate your notes and your slides side by side—all from your new iPad Mini. Get the app for the device you’re using now—iPhone, iPad, or Android device—and enter below to win the new iPad Mini!”

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Practical Resource: How To Record Sermon Audio

September 14, 2012 by 2 Comments

How To: Record Sermon Audio

There are several ways to approach this.

  1. A dedicated digital recorder set up to record sermon audio (from your sound board – or a mic running directly into the recorder).
  2. A direct line from your sound board into your computer.

1. Running directly into a digital recorder and then later importing into your computer might be the route you take if you don’t have a laptop or computer for audio capture to run at church. Many smaller churches don’t have a lot of resources and need an economic option to fill their needs. A small, affordable digital recorder might fit the bill for you.

2. Running a direct line from your soundboard into your computer is probably the most efficient way to do this if you have an available laptop or computer and can run a direct line from your soundboard.

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Turning A Battleship

September 7, 2012 by 7 Comments

Thanks to Travis Paulding, (Tech Director) at St. Simons Community Church for sharing these great insights with us today.

I was a chaplain for a high school soccer team for a few years and one season there was a kid on the team that was great at a few things but none of those things included making a cut on the soccer pitch. In the midst of a game the coach yelled at him “You turn like a battleship!” As you can probably imagine, he earned a new nickname that night. I also had a vision that stuck with me. A battleship is designed to do a lot of things well, changing direction is not one of them. They are big, strong, awe-inspiring war ships but they don’t turn on a dime.

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On Instagram? Join Us For Worship Photos & Discussion!

June 26, 2012 by 4 Comments

We’ve got an Instagram account set up (@theworshipcommunity).

What’s Instagram? Well, it’s a nice little niche social network devoted to sharing photos with/on your smartphone. We’ll be using it to post images related to worship: music, tech, gear, rehearsals, gatherings, sunday setlists, etc.

Also, if you want to add a layer to your Sunday Setlists experience, make sure you’re following @theworshipcommunity and using the hashtags #worshipcommunity and #SundaySetlists in your photos of your gatherings, stage sets, series graphics, actual setlists, and/or anything related to your worship experience each week! [Read more...]

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Confusing Worship Lyric Disorder

June 25, 2012 by 34 Comments

We’ve all been there – the room is still, the lights are dimmed, and the Worship Leader has pulled out the “just-the-voices” card. The atmosphere is electric and everyone is feeling it – but you have one problem: you don’t have the slightest clue what that last line of the song was supposed to mean.

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Tech Resource: Worship Band In Hand

June 14, 2012 by 13 Comments

Review – Worship Band In Hand – Musicians in a High Tech Box

I am not a ‘worship techie’ as much as some people, but I do like to look at technologies to arm the small church and small group gatherings, because this is where I do most of my worship leading time and where I like to target our worship resources.  I recently got the opportunity to review Worship Band in Hand, another iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app technology for worship leaders to use.

As the name implies, Worship Band in Hand is really geared to augmenting missing pieces of your band with individual parts.  It does so by providing a simple interface, which is really just a multi-track volume control, for every track on the recordings.  Since the source for the recordings are the record labels themselves, you essentially get the entire label recording (minus lead vocals) broken down into individual parts and individually controllable. [Read more...]

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Leading Worship With Scripture

April 11, 2012 by 37 Comments


Thanks to Gary Durbin for sharing this with TWC. Originally published at: http://garydurbin.blogspot.com/2012/04/leading-worship-with-scripture.html

About 10 years ago I started my first job as a worship leader in a church. I was 24, green and eager to grow. I went to my first music conference shortly after, and it wasn’t that great. It was pretty old school and very irrelevant to the vision God had given me regarding worship ministry.

But just like most things in life, you can always learn something. As bad as the conference was, I walked away learning something that has been very vital to my ministry. I attended one of the workshops they offered, and the teacher said something that stuck with me. He said that the most impacting thing we could give our crowd every week, during the music, was scripture. He challenged us to make sure we used scripture, somehow, someway, during every worship set we lead.

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Practical Resource: Beefing Up The Band With Digital Musicians

March 19, 2012 by 22 Comments

Thanks to Matthew Starner for sharing this article with The Worship Community. Originally published at matthewstarner.com

First a few key things to understand:

Generally speaking, I’m not in favor of replacing key instruments digitally. Our normal team consists of drums, bass, electric guitar and keyboard. Even if one of them were missing, I wouldn’t be comfortable replacing any of them with digital musicians because they’re too important. However, this does depend largely on your circumstances. If you’re just starting out and you have only a guitar player and vocalist (and they’re both you) then you’re going to have to find a way to enhance your sound. There are options for this such as Worship Backing Band. [Read more...]

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