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https://adlibmusic.com/contact https://adlibmusic.com/202 mailto:dave@adlibmusic.com mailto:podcast@adlibmusic.com https://adlibmusic.com/faders I had this nagging feeling that the "fad" of using clicks and multitracks might just be something I’d better learn to use. So rather than standing in judgement of those who relied on such tomfoolery, I hired someone to teach me how to use them. My motivation? I just don’t ever want to be one of those leaders that stops learning, stops adapting, starts longing for the "simpler" past, and gets left in the dust. So, I embraced it. Cautiously at first, but when I began experiencing the value of using clicks and tracks, I was hooked. See, when you don’t play with a click, everyone on the team is getting their timing from different sources - their own heads, the drummer, the worship leader, the guitar/piano player, their own playing style, the tempo on the recording…see how this is a problem? But when you play with a click, your whole team HAS to agree to follow the

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https://adlibmusic.com/contact https://adlibmusic.com/200 https://www.danwilt.com/ Sometimes I'm struck by a shallowness or a disconnectedness or simply a lack of authority and anointing on a worship leader (or team), and I wonder what causes it. I was reading in Acts 26:16 where Paul is quoting Jesus when he met him on the road to Damascus. He says to him “I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of Me.” Worship leaders and teams must be a witness of what they have seen of God. If I haven't seen much of God, I can't be much of a witness. Oh, I can sing songs. I can even be a charismatic leader, but I won't have the PUNCH! unless I'm actually a witness. The Amplified bible expands the phrase “as a witness” with “to testify, with authority.” (Today’s Spanish lesson: the word for witness is “testigo” which reminds me that our role as witnesses is to testify) How many of us have led with no authority or been led by someone with no authority? (Ad

“Could you pray for me that I will not have an emotional crash after the mountain top that this weekend was for me. (I’m serious)” -True confessions of a post-Easter worship leader https://adlibmusic.com/contact https://adlibmusic.com/179 http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/Seasons/OrdinaryTime.shtml http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/ordinary-time.cfm You just came off of the high of Easter. Now what? It’s not Hammer Time. It’s Ordinary Time. Now, according to the liturgical calendar, Ordinary Time doesn’t actually start until June 10 (after the 7th Sunday of Easter and Pentecost Sunday), but for most of your churches, you hit the high point of Easter and then sail into…a new sermon series. And it might feel like a letdown. After all, many churches put in way more hours of prep into Easter than other Sundays. And for good reason! You might feel like one worship leader that just said to me on Easter Monday: “Could you pray for me that I will not have an emotional crash after

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It was like the worship leaders from nine different churches squeezed around the table were on staff at a single, regional church. #beautiful Jon Nicol’s Practice Matters http://bit.ly/2D71lj7 Dan Wilt’s Worship Leader Toolkit (use Coupon code: danwiltemaillist to get $50 off, by April 15th) https://bit.ly/2Umr6FK WorshipArtistry.com Todd Field’s Worship Rocket https://therocketcompany.com/worship/ Grant Norsworthy’s More Than Music Mentor https://grantnorsworthy.com/ The Worship Link http://www.theworshiplink.com/ Atoma Conference https://atomaconference.com/ Here’s a PDF of how we’ve started these groups along with a group ethos we use. http://bit.ly/2UJQANp http://bit.ly/2Vz9S5x https://adlibmusic.com/contact https://adlibmusic.com/177 Produced by Dave Gerhart

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The worship leader - sound tech relationship is usually either pretty great or pretty not. The reality is that each week, our sound techs serve heroically to bring our musical offerings to life. They often lack training, affirmation, and proper equipment. It’s super hard work. And usually thankless. https://adlibmusic.com/i-need/audio-training https://adlibmusic.com/contact https://adlibmusic.com/172

https://adlibmusic.com/contact https://adlibmusic.com/171 A friend asked me how long the music in church typically is. I answered with this: There are two basic streams in the church: Non-Denominational churches built their services on two elements: the Worship and the Word. So there’s usually a chunk of one followed by a chunk of the other. Denominational churches have liturgy and sacraments woven into their orders of worship. They may have similar total times of music, but they are spread throughout the service. This is clearly a gross oversimplification and generalization, but it gives us a little picture. But that’s not the question my friend was asking. What she really meant was “Why does the music go so long sometimes? Can’t they tell we’re not into it?” Produced by Dave Gerhart Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-light-the-heat/869453893 https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/invention/1336179313

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