An easy way to learn several songs with your praise team is to use songs that use the same chords and chord structure. Teach your team a basic chord pattern like G C D C. Once they can play that consistently and in time then reveal the songs that go along with that.
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Archive for April, 2008
Working With Youth Bands- Same Chords
April 29th, 2008
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Free Song #2- Hey I Love Jesus
April 17th, 2008
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This is the second in the Free Song Series. Links at the bottom will take you a free mp3 file of the song to listen to, and a free PDF file of the chords to print and use.
Hey I Love Jesus is otherwise known as the vowel song because each line of the chorus [...]
Margin
April 16th, 2008
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Last night was our first Church League Men’s Softball game. I was pitching for our team. Now I think they let me pitch because first of all I can get the ball over the plate 70% of the time and two because I don’t have an arm to play outfield or the quickness to play [...]
Free Photos
April 14th, 2008
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I was reading browsing through one of my favorite sites called plugrug.com and came across a like to a website for free graphics called creativemyk. The cool thing about the site is that it does not only include photos but also adobe files, templates etc for you to download and use. I created my own [...]
How To- Using Google Spreadsheet to Organize Song Lists
April 10th, 2008
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We were looking for an easy, FREE, way to compile our worship library, keep track of how many times and when we used songs. We also wanted to keep information about each song like theme, key, tempo and what songs have just chords, or full arrangements etc. Finally we were looking for a way to [...]
How To – Youth Worship in a Small Church
April 8th, 2008
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Wanting to start a contemporary worship service for youth in a small church with little resources? This was just the situation a friend of mine asked me about this weekend.
Here are some suggestions:
1. Use the talents that are in your church- Find out the youth who play guitar, or piano. Even those that think they [...]
The TO-DO list!!!!!
April 5th, 2008
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Hours race by like minutes and at the close of the day, I wonder “just where did the time go”?Things that were on my to-do list from yesterday are still left uncrossed and my plate begins to grow to an overwhelming 5 course dinner!!!WOW…. how did I end up like this?
I’m reminded [...]
Free Song#1- Lord Let Your Love
April 3rd, 2008
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“Lord Let Your Love” was written one summer while I was leading worship at Lakeview Methodist Church Camp. Many of the groups I was with would head down to the lake for a morning devotional or would be in a place that didn’t have a way to get words up on a screen or even [...]
What about the Worship?
April 2nd, 2008
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See if you’ve ever been in this “hot spot”.
Its 15 minutes before church and the lead vocalist hasn’t shown up, the video isn’t working right and a sound check at this point, is never going to happen. How on earth will this service ever flow and people enter in and praise? Well, after the grueling [...]
Kerri Crocker
April 2nd, 2008
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Over the past several months I have been blessed to be able to work with my new friend Kerri Crocker. Kerri came on this year as a worship leader for our contemporary worship service at Williams. She lives with her husband and family in East Texas but she leads worship and shares her music all [...]
