Fork In The Road Music » Event http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org My thoughts on life, worship, communication, church, and more Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:31:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ The Importance of Teaching http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2009/12/the-importance-of-teaching/ http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2009/12/the-importance-of-teaching/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:23:22 +0000 Russell Martin http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/?p=1515
  • Working With Youth Worship Bands: Back to Basics
  • Teaching Class Guitar Lessons Week 1
  • Teaching Class Guitar Lessons Week 3
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    basic mathWhen working with my youth worship team I often find myself emphasizing rehearsing the songs. After all, we generally have one event or another to prepare for so that means creating a songlist, and working up that music to perform or lead with.
    I have realized, however, that there is a huge benefit to teaching, and not just rehearsing. When I first started to teach guitar lessons I told myself that I wanted my students to learn why a chord was what it was, what the names of the notes they were paying etc… Instead of just “play this chord”
    I believed by teaching them how to learn to play guitar, then they could continue to learn whether I was teaching them or not.
    The same thing should be true for worship teams. We should work with them to teach the basics of chord structures, rhythms, balance, tone, song structure, etc… So that they begin to recognize these things.
    What’s cool is that when your group starts to learn these things, they begin to play musically together. You don’t have to explain every part of every song, but they begin to feel it.
    For us this has resulted in more productive rehearsals, and more enjoyable ones too.
    So what basic lessons would you teach a beginning praise band?

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    1. Working With Youth Worship Bands: Back to Basics
    2. Teaching Class Guitar Lessons Week 1
    3. Teaching Class Guitar Lessons Week 3

    ]]>     http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2009/12/the-importance-of-teaching/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/     Big Event for 6th Graders http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2009/09/big-event-for-6th-graders/ http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2009/09/big-event-for-6th-graders/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:53:00 +0000 Russell Martin http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/?p=1238
  • National Youth Workers Convention- Part 1
  • My Daily Photo 07/23/09
  • Refresh Workshop 2009
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    This year I get another opportunity to lead worship for an amazing group of kids at a great weekend retreat. It’s called “The Big Event” and it’s our conference 6th grade retreat held November 6-8 at Lakeview Conference Center in Palestine Tx.

    Please pray for me as I go, and for all those who will be coming. I am also looking forward to meeting Illusionist Jared Hall who will be there for the weekend.

    Texas Conference Methodist Folk.. click here for all the info

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    1. National Youth Workers Convention- Part 1
    2. My Daily Photo 07/23/09
    3. Refresh Workshop 2009

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    Almost every Sunday Morning I am leading worship at Williams Memorial UMC for the Xperience service. I also like sharing my music with other groups. Here is my upcoming schedule for the summer so far. If you are interested in me leading worship for your group, retreat, camp or service please contact me.

    Currently Scheduling events for Spring and Summer

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    1. Welcome

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