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Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, Week 1

Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, Week 1 By Jon Nicol   |  February 20, 2012
Week One of a Five-Week Team Devotional: Heart Check - Do I Get Offended Easily?

10 Steps to Remarkable Video Storytelling

10 Steps to Remarkable Video Storytelling By Jon Nicol   |  February 17, 2012
How to tell great stories with video...

10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal

10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal By Jon Nicol   |  February 16, 2012
If you're the leader, lead. Don't run the whole song. A "noodle-free zone". And mark it up...

Loops for Beginners

Loops for Beginners By Jon Nicol   |  February 15, 2012
"Loops in worship" doesn't mean your whacked drummer who plays every third Sunday...

29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 4

29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 4 By Jon Nicol   |  February 14, 2012
Awesome chord diagram maker, getting snarky about tuners, and a whole new world of chord voicings...

10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal, Part 2

10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal, Part 2 By Jon Nicol   |  February 13, 2012
Invite techs to rehearsals and raise your expectations...

10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal, Part 1

10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal, Part 1 By Jon Nicol   |  February 10, 2012
Make your rehearsal more effective...

29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 3

29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 3 By Jon Nicol   |  February 9, 2012
In part three: unlimited videos, $5 wireless mic insurance and a manual on how to dump your worship committee.

12 Steps to a More Prepared Team

12 Steps to a More Prepared Team By Jon Nicol   |  February 8, 2012
Missed the free seminar on Monday night? The playback and notes are available for free...

8 Healthy Steps to Initiate Change, Part 2

8 Healthy Steps to Initiate Change, Part 2 By Jon Nicol   |  February 7, 2012
Spurring change (without getting bucked off the horse)...

8 Healthy Steps to Initiate Change, Part 1

8 Healthy Steps to Initiate Change, Part 1 By Jon Nicol   |  February 6, 2012
How to initiate change (without losing your team)...

29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 2

29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 2 By Jon Nicol   |  February 2, 2012
Worship Backing Band is a great tool for well under $29...

Piano in Worship Training, 3

Piano in Worship Training, 3 By Jon Nicol   |  February 1, 2012
Bob Kauflin has delivered. This three part piano training is a must watch for every keyboard player on your team...

29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 1

29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 1 By Jon Nicol   |  January 31, 2012
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at 29 relatively inexpensive "tools" to aid the musician, tech or leader in their worship role...

Drums Too Loud? Five Options for Less Volume

Drums Too Loud? Five Options for Less Volume By Jon Nicol   |  January 30, 2012
Are your drums too loud? Here's five or six options...

If I Had An Award Show...

If I Had An Award Show... January 26, 2012
Check out the new presentation program, Proclaim...

Understanding Riffs and Fills

Understanding Riffs and Fills By Jon Nicol   |  January 23, 2012
What's the difference between solos, riffs and fills? You'll learn the difference in this guitar lesson.

The Hard Conversation

The Hard Conversation By Jon Nicol   |  January 11, 2012
What's one hard conversation worth?

Making Sense of Relative Major & Minor

Making Sense of Relative Major & Minor By Jon Nicol   |  January 10, 2012
We guitarists love the minor pentatonic. But unfortunately, if the song is in the key of A, we can't play the A Minor Pentatonic. Well, we can. But it won't sound good...

Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons By Jon Nicol   |  January 9, 2012
At the edges of world where the sea was yet to be explored, an ancient map-maker wrote HC SVNT DRACONES: Here Be Dragons. Places unknown, unexplored, untamed. But where dragons be, there also be gold and other treasure...

What Worship Songwriters Can Learn From The Nashville Music Scene

What Worship Songwriters Can Learn From The Nashville Music Scene By Jon Nicol   |  January 6, 2012
After talking about it for 5 years, I finally overcame my fear and started traveling to Nashville to write, network, attend workshops, and just soak up whatever mojo is in the air down there.

Develop Your Bench

Develop Your Bench By Jon Nicol   |  January 5, 2012
Developing new techs and musicans takes time. But the time is well invested. In one year, two years, three years, you’ll be happy you did. No. Downright ecstatic...

Meet the Blues Scale

Meet the Blues Scale By Jon Nicol   |  January 3, 2012
The minor pentatonic is to a lead guitarist what a sequence jumpsuit is to an Elvis impersonator.

Kick Your Charts to the Curb, Part 2

Kick Your Charts to the Curb, Part 2 By Jon Nicol   |  January 2, 2012
Want to get serious about getting your head out of the music stand this year? Here is the 2nd half of 12 tips for memorizing your music...

A Letter to Me (the Guitarist) [rewind]

A Letter to Me (the Guitarist) [rewind] By Jon Nicol   |  December 30, 2011
To close out rewind week, I had to save the best for last. Remembering what a dufus I was as a young guitarist, I decided to write a letter to my self in hopes of helping younger guitarists be less annoying than I was...

8 Tips to Help Your Team Practice [rewind]

8 Tips to Help Your Team Practice [rewind] By Jon Nicol   |  December 29, 2011
Practice tips and wondering out loud why my ex-bar musicians practice more than my church musicians...

How to Dump Your Worship Leader [rewind]

How to Dump Your Worship Leader [rewind] By Jon Nicol   |  December 28, 2011
Ask a friend on the team to tell me you quit. I enjoy this one. It gives me that 7th grade feeling all over again – like when I got a Dear John note from my first girlfriend, delivered by her friend to my friend.

Taco Bell vs. Chipotle [rewind week]

Taco Bell vs. Chipotle [rewind week] By Jon Nicol   |  December 27, 2011
Ever gotten in line behind the uninitiated at Taco Bell? They stare. And they stare. And they're just about to order, but, oh wait, what's a Chalupa?

Ministry, Intimacy & Disco

Ministry, Intimacy & Disco By Jon Nicol   |  December 26, 2011
We're doing rewind blogs this week between Christmas and New Year. Here's a short one from early in 2011. It's point is as sharp now as it was then...

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