{"id":333,"date":"2009-06-09T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2011-04-22T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T21:00:18","slug":"ultra-basic-arrangment-tips-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/ultra-basic-arrangment-tips-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra Basic Arrangment Tips &#8211; Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"I Am An Offering - Ultra Basic Arrangement Tips: Part One\" href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/ultra-basic-arrangement-tips-part-one\/\">Yesterday we looked at adding variety and layering vocals<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are two more ultra basic arrangement tips for worship and music ministry.<\/p>\n<h3>Consider\u00a0 Acapella<\/h3>\n<p>Especially if you have several good singers that are very comfortable with harmony, consider dropping all or some of the instruments out and just having the vocals.\u00a0 It is so powerful for the church to hear each other sing, and sometimes we just need to get rid of the noise and hear each other&#8217;s voices loudly and clearly.<\/p>\n<h3>Go Acoustic<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re use to a full band sound with full drum-set and several layers of instrumentation, pull it back.\u00a0 Have your drummer just play a djembe and some shakers and take out the keyboards and electric guitars and replace them with piano and acoustic guitar.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll be amazed at how the mood changes.<\/p>\n<p>Again, do you have any other basic tips that would benefit others?\u00a0 Share them by leaving a comment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/ultra-basic-arrangment-tips-part-two\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,33,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders","category-music","category-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}