This Fork In the Road blog was started as a way to encourage and share ideas, thoughts, advice and tips about worship leading in various settings from camps and retreats, to church services, to youth praise teams. I can write and share many things but I know that there are many more of you who [...]
Camp is stressful, the kids are loud and rambunctious, and it seems like you are always running from one place to another. The best thing you can do for yourself is to get rest. This applies to everyone from directors, to music people, to counselors and even campers. The camp I still go to [...]
Over the past 10 years I have spent many weeks at summer camp leading music for various groups. Also I have spent many weeks on mission trips with the various churches I have worked in. In all those years, and all those camps there are some things I have learned. Some I have learned [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
This is the first in a series I have wanted to write for a while called “Theoretically Speaking.” Each article will deal with some aspect of music theory as it pertains to leading worship and working with worship teams. If you have a theory question please send it in and If I can answer it [...]
