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W o r s h i p I d e a s . c o m
Practical Tips for
Worship Leaders
Celebrating 6 years
on the Internet!
http://www.worshipideas.com
by Don Chapman
http://www.donchapman.name
http://TheAdventuresOfDonChapman.blogspot.com/
April 8, 2008
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- WorshipMax.com
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New content Tuesday,
April 8:
new backgrounds downloads,
countdown video
WorshipMax.com is
the must-have website
for
the 21st century
worship leader: a
treasure chest of
the hottest
worship
resource links, downloads
and ideas on the
Internet.
>Previous links,
resources and discounts:
- This PDF will help
your pastor with
his
sermon slides
- Monthly QuikLinks:
a smorgasbord of
worship
resource
websites that offer
free monthly downloads.
- Discounts on worship
resources from WorshipFilms.com,
SermonVideos.com,
G3Worship.com and
others.
If you
purchase audio, video
and graphics resources
for your
church, your WorshipMax
subscription will
pay for itself!
http://www.worshipmax.com
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- HymnCharts.com:
Blended Worship On
A Budget
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Latest arrangement:
"Jesus I Come."
Blend hymns with
contemporary worship
with
versatile
HymnCharts arrangements.
All the parts you
need for every
member of your music
team: choir, praise
team vocals, praise
band and orchestral
instruments. And
affordable,
to boot!
Visit the website
and learn how HymnCharts
can save you
money:
http://www.hymncharts.com/value.htm
Don't need all the
extra parts?
Try HymnChartsLITE
for churches with
smaller
choirs:
http://www.hymnchartslite.com
Try HymnChartsBAND
for churches with
praise
band &
vocalists:
http://www.hymnchartsband.com
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- Top 10 P&W
Lyrics
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For the week of March
29:
1 How Great Is Our
God / Tomlin, Reeves,
Cash
2 Amazing Grace (My
Chains Are Gone)
/ Tomlin
3 Blessed Be Your
Name / Redman
4 Here I Am To Worship
/ Hughes
5 Mighty To Save
/ Fielding, Morgan
6 Lord I Lift Your
Name On High / Founds
7 In Christ Alone
/ Townend, Getty
8 He Lives / Ackley
9 You Are My King
/ Foote
10 Because He Lives
/ Gaither
Subscribe to CCLI
to legally reproduce
song
lyrics for your
worship service.
http://www.ccli.com
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- WorshipFlow.com
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Ever dream of a praise
set that flows seamlessly
from one
song to another?
Music is the glue
that ties
your praise
songs together, but
some classically
trained
keyboardists
have trouble improvising.
WorshipFlow.com solves
this problem, giving
keyboardists
underscore music
that will transition
from
any key to any
key - over 1300 pages
of downloadable and
printable sheet
music!
Download a free sample
right now:
http://www.worshipflow.com
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- This week at FreeWorshipBackgrounds.com
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Download torn backgrounds:
http://www.free-worship-backgrounds.com/torn.php
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- FREE Stuff
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>Download free
MP3s and charts for
new
songs at:
http://www.heartstogod.com/music.html
>Download my free
class "Blending
Hymns with Contemporary
Worship" at
WorshipTeleseminar.com:
http://www.worshipteleseminar.com/
>Free worship
song: "In Spirit
and
Truth" is a
contemporary
call to worship based
on John 4:23-24.
Login with your user
name and password
to
WorshipIdeas.com
to download the charts:
http://www.worshipideas.com/members/Free-Music.html
>Free HymnChart
arrangement: "Holy,
Holy, Holy"
is arranged
for 3 part vocals
& keyboard. Learn
how
to combine it with
the popular praise
song "Open the
Eyes
of My Heart"
using
the free WorshipFlow.com
transition and underscore.
http://www.worshipideas.com/members/Free-Music.html
>Free keyboard
underscore &
transition:
Download an
underscore you can
use with the free
"Holy,
Holy, Holy"
arrangement, and
discover how WorshipFlow.com
can help your
ministry:
http://www.worshipflow.com/free1.htm
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- Chris Sligh
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Chris Sligh's upcoming
major label debut
is nearing
completion - read
more at my blog:
http://theadventuresofdonchapman.blogspot.com/
Chris was the worship
leader at Seacoast
Church in
Greenville, SC and
made it to the top
10
of American Idol
last season.
Update 04/08/08:
Chris's first single,
"Empty
Me," is
#20 on Billboard's
Christian charts!
Check
out this link
for the chart:
http://tinyurl.com/rzbb3
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- WorshipTeam.com
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Manage your worship
team with ease and
convenience
with the
new website WorshipTeam.com.
Schedule rehearsals,
email
musicians, plan your
praise sets and more.
Best of all, WorshipTeam.com
comes with legal
chord charts
and streaming audio
for hundreds of popular
worship songs by
artists such as Chris
Tomlin, Matt Redman
and Tim Hughes...
with more on the
way. No other planning
website
has built in
music like this!
Try it free for 30
days:
http://www.worshipteam.com/worshipideas.html
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- WorshipIdea: Praise
Bands
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Have you ever wished
you had a great praise
band like one of
those megachurches?
Often smaller ministries
think they never
can compete
musically with the
"big guys"
and
don't even try. While
it's
true, you have a
better chance of
finding
musicians if your
congregation has
10,000 in weekly
attendance,
a small church
does have a fighting
chance if they do
things
correctly.
I've recently been
to some of the most
famous
megachurches
in the country and
I was a bit surprised
at how
unspectacular they
are. Sure, they were
good,
but I'd put
the praise band of
the local church
I used
to play at up
against any of them.
All things being
equal, I guess the
main
difference between
big and small ministries
would be how deep
they are for each
position - a megachurch
might have 3 or 4
available bass
players and a smaller
ministry would be
blessed
to have 1
[you know how hard
it is to find bass
players...]
So how do you attract
musicians? It boils
down to standards.
There are ministries
that have standards
and those that
don't - with players
as well as vocalists.
I'm guessing that
one reason [besides
God's
favor] that big
churches are big
is that they do things
correctly.
The other
Sunday as I was enjoying
one megachurch,
I thought to myself
"I bet I'd >never<
hear an off-pitch
Aunt Sally sing on
the
praise team here."
So why is it an issue
in your church?
Keep these musings
in mind when you're
creating
and
maintaining your
praise band:
1. A band is only
as good as the weakest
link. Any players
I've known who have
spent years perfecting
their craft won't
be caught dead with
an amateur. Form
a strong
band with the
best players for
your main service
and create
a "farm team"
of progressing musicians
for other services
- Sunday nights,
prayer meetings,
youth events, etc.
Those
players may one
day gain enough skill
to progress to the
main band. Then
you'll have a spare
bass player when
one
gets sick!
The "spiritually
correct" don't
like this thinking,
and
would argue that
they wouldn't want
to cultivate
the
mentality that Sunday
morning is the "main
stage." Why
not
have your pro drummer
play in the youth
group
so he doesn't
get a big head?
I disagree with this.
Sunday morning is
most
definately the
"main stage"
and I would want
my
best players in this
critical time slot.
This is when visitors
visit, so why
wouldn't you want
to put your best
foot forward?
As far as
big heads go, I don't
ever recall a true
pro with a "big
head" but have
met many amatuers
with
gigantic craniums
(I
recently had the
opportunity to work
on Chris
Sligh's major
label recording and
was once again reminded
how the top,
most talented musicians
in the business are
almost
ridiculously humble.)
2. You gotta groove.
As much as possible,
form a steady band
with the same players
every week. A megachurch
I know has
recently implemented
a weird new rule
- all
musicians must
rotate among all
their bands [they
have several
bands for
different ministries.]
This sounds so cuddly,
doesn't it -
everyone gets to
spread his/her gifts
around!
Sorry, it just doesn't
work that way. When
a band plays
together, week after
week, an unspeakable
bond is formed.
It's basically a
small group. You
start reading
each other's
minds. The music
gets so good you
can hardly
stand it. Not
to mention the spiritual
bonds that are formed.
Would you want to
be in a small group
with
different people
each week? I didn't
think so.
3. A drummer is everything.
In the olden
days, the pianist
was in rhythmic control.
Today, that control
is handed to
the drummer. If he/she
is off, everyone
has
a bad day. Only
use a reliable drummer
who has steady time.
I'd rather play
with a track than
play with a tempo-challenged
drummer. One
drummer I recall
could keep perfect
time
in rehearsal.
Unfortunately he
loved to be out very
late
on Saturday
nights, then would
come in Sunday morning,
half asleep, and
play like he was
trapped in one of
Star Trek's
space-time
continuums.
Bottom Line: Make
your praise band
a safe
place for talented
musicians and watch
what happens.
>Read an archive
of past, practical
articles
at the paid
website:
http://www.worshipmax.com
>Can you believe
HymnCharts.com is
6 years
old? When I
started out in my
first music director
job
8 years ago (I
had always worked
in a church as pianist
or assistant to the
music director) I
soon discovered one
of
my biggest
challenges was trying
to mix a hymn into
my praise sets.
Continue reading
at this link:
http://www.worshipideas.com/Hymns-Contemporary-Worship.shtml
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to God Praise &
Worship
Network
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