Practice Matters
Lead Great Worship Through Better Preparation
Welcome to Practice Matters
Below is the content for the entire course. When you click through to each lesson, you'll find the video and access links to the supplemental material: team member pages, slide deck and discussion guides.
Watch This Video First
Lesson 1: Why Practice Matters
This session tackles WHY practice matters. For your team to buy into the vision of making preparation a high priority, they need to understand WHY. And we dig into the why on two levels: biblical and practical.
Lesson 2: Quit Practicing At Rehearsals
This session tackles WHEN to practice--and we specifically drive home the point that PRACTICE needs to happen BEFORE rehearsal.
Lesson 3: How Prepared is Prepared?
Most of the time, team members don’t actually know how prepared they should be for rehearsal and services. So this session explains in tangible ways how much they need to practice before rehearsal, and again before services, while taking into consideration different learning styles and skill levels.
Lesson 4: How to Practice Effectively, Part 1
In this session, your team members will learn techniques, habits, and hacks to practice the songs that are already familiar to them.
Lesson 5: How to Practice Effectively, Part 2
In this session, your team members will learn techniques, habits, and hacks to learn new songs.
Lesson 6: How to Memorize Music
The less time your team members spend with their heads in their music stands, the more they’re going to worship God, engage the congregation, and just have more fun. This module will teach tips, tricks and hacks to memorizing songs before Sunday.
Lesson 7: The Rookie Mistakes of Practicing
Practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent. So your team members need to know how to avoid the bad habits of practicing. This module will dispel the myths and correct the mistakes your team makes with their practice time.
Lesson 9: What to Practice on my Weeks Off
Ever had a musician come in after three weeks of being off and make a comment about how they haven’t played since the last time they were on? Our musical chops (voice and instruments alike) are like anything: if we don’t use them, we lose them. So we talk about ways to do less on their weeks off, but keep forward progress.
Bonus Lesson 2: How to Impliment a Mid-Week Rehearsal
Lesson 8: How to Practice with a Click
Playing tight as a band is less about the amount of time you play together as a band, and more about playing in time together. And besides building a solid sense of time among your team members, practicing with a click will also force them to prepare more intentionally. Why? The metronome shines a bright light on problem areas within songs.