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09 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Ultra Basic Arrangment Tips – Part Two

Do you ever find yourself wondering how you can add variety to your praise and worship music or hymns but have no idea how to do it? Here are some ultra basic tips that can go a long way in making the music played for your worship gatherings much more interesting, regardless of if you have a full band or just a piano and some singers on your team.

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08 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Ultra Basic Arrangement Tips – Part One

Do you ever find yourself wondering how you can add variety to your praise and worship music or hymns but have no idea how to do it? Here are some ultra basic tips that can go a long way in making the music played for your worship gatherings much more interesting, regardless of if you have a full band or just a piano and some singers on your team.

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22 August 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Are You Exercising Discipline?

In a recent conversation I had with my pastor, who is also my spiritual mentor, he mentioned that he had been seeing some very positive fruit in me over the summer.  I asked him, “Anything specific?”  to which he replied with one word – “Discipline.” My Discipline Journey I have never been a very disciplined [...]

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14 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Orchestrating an Effective Rehearsal – The Worship Community

Yesterday I was blessed to have an article in the “featured articles” section of The Worship Community.  I wanted to point you over there to take a read.  The article talks about five things that are needed to orchestrate effective rehearsals.  Here are the five things (read the article to get the details about each [...]

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15 July 2008 ~ 17 Comments

The Pitfalls of Teaching to Piano Players to Play By Chord

For a long time I’ve subscribed to the school of thought that playing by chord off of lead sheets or chord sheets is a much better way to go for piano players than playing straight from the actual piano music.  You only have to have a couple of pages to turn through, you learn how [...]

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