Items Tagged with "New Songs"
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Eight Questions for Great Song Selections
Why You Need to Be a Micromanager of Worship Music...I've worked under a micromanager in ministry. It sucked.And so I vowed to never be one. But there is one place that I'm intentionally hands-on (with a magnifying glass in one of those hands).Songs.Have you ever thought about your role as gatekeepe
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs: #4.5
Got a new song to teach your people? You've got two options.Either…Interrupt the worship set by stopping to teach the new song that you've placed within it.*Or...Just plow ahead and hope people catch the song as you're singing.Either/Or bites. Let's find an both/and solution.This both/and opt
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs: #1
You've got a new song to teach. And you're a good worship leader–you know better than to just spring it on your people and expect full-on participation.So what are some ways that you can take to move this song onto people's worship radar?Earlier this week, I started to give you five (and a hal
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs, #4
I wondered why everyone just stared glassy-eyed for half the worship set. OK, they might've been glassy-eyed the whole set. I just had my eyes closed because I couldn't take it.I was a young worship leader without a ton of confidence. The "unsinging undead" was unnerving me. I just chalked it up to
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs, #5
I used to be so impatient with new songs. If I heard one, I had to teach it. But little by little I learned some principles that have led to these tips. Here they are in a more step-by-step process:Awareness/Introduction Stage#1. Play the song during your pre-service time several weeks before you're
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Top 10 (Worst) Ways to Introduce a New Song In Worship
I've been working on an expanded ebook of the SongCycle seminar. I started having some fun with the chapter on "introducing new songs" and this popped out. Love to have improvements to these and any new ones you might have. And of course you will get credit in the book if I use yours. Just be prepar
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 1
Last year, my wife’s laptop was pooping out. I decided to get her an iPad for Christmas. When it arrived, I didn’t just throw it into her lap and say, “Here. Merry Christmas.”No way.First of all, I was a tad giddy when I ordered it, because I knew she wanted one. (OK, I wante
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 2
Last week we began a new series* looking at why introducing a new song to our congregation is like giving a gift. Here are two more components to introducing a new song.3. The BoxAll of our songs come in a box. The melody. The chord structure. The song form. The tempo. The key. It’s the tangib
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 3
Read Part 1, Part 25. The AnticipationLet me ask you this:How excited is your congregation to learn a new song? If you and I gave our churches a list of 20 things that could occur on a Sunday and asked them to rank them in order from most favorite to least favorite, do you think “learnin
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 4
Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 36. The presentationFor my first vocational ministry experience, I was a youth and worship pastor in small church in a small town in Ohio. During that time, the acoustic guitar I had been playing since high school was slowly falling apart. One of the members of the church (
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 5
We've been discussing "gift-giving" as a metaphor for introducing a new song. If you haven't read the previous posts in this series, you can find them on the "Planning Songs" resource page.7. The OpeningThe opening is simply the first time the congregation is invited to join in with the song.You&rsq
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