Music & Ministry

Reaching the ‘young people’ is a lot about figuring out what they need, that’s different from the other generations before them. Reaching multiple generations in the same service means that you have to get good at knowing what each generations needs and delivering it to them in a way that doesn’t annoy everybody else. Today, we talk about who the generations are and how most people define them, as well as some specifics about Get Z.

By far, the question we get asked the most is, “How Do We Reach The Young People?” and today we are going to start a new mini-series on what we have learned, what has worked for us, and what we’ve seen work for others as well.

A honest conversation about how we got to the place where being fake is normal and how there is a generation of people that are hungry for something real.

Background vocals are pretty important to a worship team, just not for the reasons most people think. In a perfect world, BGV’s will never be heard but too often they are being turned down because of some easily fixable reasons. Confused? You should take a listen because it all makes perfect sense when you know what their real job is and what the difference is between being buried because of good leadership and being turned down cause it sounds bad.

*depending on the preferences, beliefs, and vision of your worship team

If you want to stay in the mix as an acoustic guitar player, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Today, we are going over the main reasons the acoustic guitar gets buried by others on the team or turned down at the soundboard.

The piano is a force to be reckoned with, but it often gets sliced, diced, buried, or muted early and often. Today we talk about the root cause of it and discuss how to fix it. Even if you don’t play the piano, you should listen to this episode.

We do a lot on worship teams to try and turn down the drums but all it really takes is some know how to get the sound that we’re looking for at the volume that we need.

One of the biggest reasons we get turned down is because we are doing the exact same thing as other people on our team. In a live setting, this turns into a volume war that someone wins and others lose. In this episode we talk about why that happens and how to easily fix it.

People often get turned down trying to do something that isn’t necessary in the first place. Today we talk about how to play in a way that keeps you in the mix but feels like it’s following the overall dynamics of the sound by getting louder without actually being louder.

If you get stuck in the cycle of pride, you’ll convince yourself to turn yourself off and then feel like you’re awesome. So today we tackle the sensitive topic of what we do when we are not as good as we’d like to be. What we do in this moment is a big deal, maybe the biggest deal, because it affects so much of what we do as worship leaders. Worth a listen.

https://youtu.be/p41O0z-47qg