![]() You don’t even really need a chordchart, although it’s really helpful to have those for everyone, and even to have a leadsheet (with melody line written out with those little black spots with flags up against 5 straight lines…. These two songs for example have the same chord pattern over and over for the whole song. Like Revelation song (D, Am, C, G) or How He Loves (C, Am, G, F) I have a whole blog post (which we’re going to publish at Musicademy in the next couple of weeks) on the advantages and how to’s of playing with a click, but my advice is to hook up some kind of metronome (laptop, ipod app, dedicated little electronic device almost like a guitar tuner, …) and blare that puppy right throw your mains and monitors and have everyone count along: 1, 2, 3, 4 …. You never know!ĥ. Start with a click right away if you can. There isn’t anybody on my team who hasn’t had to at least try all of the instruments we have once. Also, we regularly cross train one another on the worship team. Once someone has watched it, have them bring it back and send home with the next guy. As a matter of fact, getting your church a library of videos that you can lend out to potential players is a GREAT idea and a wonderful investment for your church. If no one does, he can just play! If you don’t have anyone who knows how, buy a bass anyway and let them play around with it and buy the beginner DVD on They’ll be off and running in no time. For example, your bass player can help train anyone who wants to play bass. If you can swing it, get as many of your experienced, regular worship team players to be there to assist. And if we have extra’s you can always add another acoustic guitar or djembe or cajon or shaker egg anything else people bring.Ĥ. Your existing Worship Team as Coaches/Teachers/Trainers I have had our church over the years buy basic, no frills but decent instruments so we have drums, piano, keys, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass and then I even have people run sound and words on the screen. So I change it up a a little to make it fair, but first timers get first pick of the instruments and can pick anything they want: any of the instruments up on the platform. I explain that the Kingdom of God works upside down from the law of the jungle, so first timer’s and new people and younger people get first pick. Now this might scare you, but this is how we do it. Depending on how many people there are you may have to move quickly through this or you’ll never get to making music! Name – Age and – One of your favorite bands (so we get to know each other a little musically as well). Then I have people introduce themselves to one another, often with questions like: I then take 2 or 3 minutes (or 5 or 10 depending on the week) and explain some basic theology and teaching on music. ![]() I start out calling everyone to join me in a sitting circle and pray, and then talk about what JAM is: a time to explore this wonderful gift God has given us called music. If everyone already knows each other and knows all the instruments, I skim through the first sections and do more in depth teaching or go straight to the instruments. Right in the main worship center (sanctuary, …)īecause the meeting is usually a fairly small group (anywhere from 2 to 20) I tailor the meeting specifically to that group. We do it after school on Wednesday afternoons for 1 hour (right before Worship Team Dinner and Practice). They are often willing to come to give back, because this is how they learned. I try to recruit some of my older players with more experience to help, which makes it WAY better. Many of the kids have little to no experience. high kids, but we also do have some brave parental types who join in, usually with some experience already. We have a weekly JAM session that is open to the public and do indeed have mostly jr./sr. #JAM SESSION FREE#Not sure if I heard that somewhere or came up with it, but feel free to steal it and make it your own if you want. In the very beginning I advertized our JAM time as a cute little acronym for Jesus And Music. ![]() I’ve been doing them for years at my church though, so let me walk you through how mine works. ![]() Jamming is just a term for an informal music making session. One of the questions that came in as a result of this is “Sounds great – but what do you actually do at a jam session”. The photo shows one at his church (the drummers are out of sight in the biggest drum booth ever). Jason Chollar wrote us a great post last week on the idea of jam sessions for worship teams. ![]()
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