arranging essentials for worship musicians · 2017-12-27 · arranging for your worship team is...
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BUILD PATH
Arranging Essentials For Worship Musicians
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If you understand good arranging skills, you can mix better and encourage the band to give you better stuff to mix.
BUILD PATH
Arranging Essentials For Worship Musicians
Lesson 1: Why Arranging Matters
Arranging for your worship team is simply reworking the song so it can be played and sung by the instruments and voices on your team and in your congregation.
Why Arranging Matters
To make a song conducive for your band, vocalists, and your church, you’ll need to create a new arrangement of it, or at least alter the arrangement.
Why Arranging Matters
Individual Musicians: You need to know what to do when your part is not spelled out.
Why Arranging Matters
Why Arranging Matters
You don’t want to create a blob of sound.
Why Arranging Matters
Instruments and voices are stepping on each other and competing for space.
Why Arranging Matters
The “Blob of Sound creates a wall of noise that doesn’t accompany worship—it distracts from it.
Why Arranging Matters
People may not be able to articulate it, but they get fatigued from hearing the constant barrage of sound.
Why Arranging Matters
Our musical arrangements need to serve the congregation, not bombard them.
Why Arranging Matters
The blob of sound doesn’t honor the gifts and talents of the musicians on the team.
Why Arranging Matters
What creates the blob?
Why Arranging Matters
What creates the blob?
Playing the chart, not the song.
Why Arranging Matters
Blob of Sound
Why Arranging Matters
What creates the blob?Not leaving space.
Why Arranging Matters
What creates the blob?
Not intentional about what register each instrument is in.
Why Arranging Matters
What creates the blob?We forget about dynamics.
You don’t need a music degree.