8 Tips to Help Your Team Practice [rewind]

By Jon Nicol

This is a short supplemental post for a series I wrote over at WorshipMinistry.com. This series was also picked up and ran on Musicademy's blog this year. Big thanks to Musicademy for running that series, and for introducing me to lots of new friends who put unnecessary "u's" in words like colour and saviour.

Here's a five of the eight tips:

• Listen to each song while following the chart. Even if you know the song well, a repeated listening-through will reveal things you missed and further solidify the song in your head.
• Listen to the song again, playing along with it (here's where the correct key & pitch-shifted recordings comes in handy).
• Do an initial play-through. Without the recording, play the song completely through one time. If any part causes you to stumble, mark it with a pencil and move on.
• Work on bumps. Once you've played through and marked the trouble stops, go back and run those spots till you have them down.

Read 8 Practice Tips

Check out the series, "Quit Practicing at Rehearsals" at WorshipMinistry.com.