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Top 10 Worship Leading Myths
I'm going to start creating articles or blog posts and thought it would be fun to have a 'Top 10' series.
So if you're up for it, please help me out with this one by posting some worship leading 'myths' - and yes they can be funny as well as true :-)
I'll pick the best 10 and put them into an article, or blog post so please only share them if you're willing for them to reused and reprinted.
This should be fun!
Phil
Update (09/09/09): I've just published the '101 Worship Leader myths' on the new Worship The Rock blog - enjoy!
So if you're up for it, please help me out with this one by posting some worship leading 'myths' - and yes they can be funny as well as true :-)
I'll pick the best 10 and put them into an article, or blog post so please only share them if you're willing for them to reused and reprinted.
This should be fun!
Phil
Update (09/09/09): I've just published the '101 Worship Leader myths' on the new Worship The Rock blog - enjoy!
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Permalink Reply by daniel cash on -
And yet they still lay stinky eggs from time to time...
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Martin Seymour on -
Okay, Phil,
I have come into this Myths discussion a day late and a dollar short, but I have some additional thoughts -
Assume that everyone knows the same songs as you (worship leader) - in the same arrangement - in the same key.
Assume all musicians/vocalists can read music and follow directions - at the same time.
And we all know what happens when we assume something...
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Permalink Reply by David Honkanen on -
You have to be a good singer to be a good worship leader. The best worship leader from the church I go to wasn't a good singer at all. He really knew how to lead people into the presence of God in worship. He now leads a different ministry and doesn't worship lead anymore. I hope that I've learned a few things from him.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Demarest on
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Jesus played a Guild, Peter could play bass like he was walking on water, and Mary Magdalene had a harmony that would leave grown men weeping . . . oops, that's a legend, not a myth.
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Permalink Reply by daniel cash on
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1) TONE=VOLUME
2) If you use an amp you're priorities are wrong.
3) Anyone can walk into practice and perform with the team the following Sunday
4) You can always use more singers
5) Anyone who can sing can lead worship
6) Worship leaders only listen to worship music
7) The native tongue of Worship Leaders is Christianese (y'all know who y'all are!)
8) Speeding up the tempo makes the song better
9) Playing power chords and "chugging" make a song more modern.
10) Our twosies smell like roses
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Permalink Reply by David Estes on -
Christianese!!!!.. Lol............. WOW! I have seen a few posts on WTR that fit this. I read them to laugh and cringe.
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Permalink Reply by Matt Allison on -
"Playing power chords and "chugging" make a song more modern." - so true(myth)! I generally play guitar in a rock/ metal style but completely avoid chugging for worship music - totally cheesy and out of place in a worship context! It just sounds rubbish! The power chord is good though, to add power strangely enough (not to make it sound "modern" though).
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Permalink Reply by Kamuela Kahalehili on -
A Bass Player cannot lead Worship.
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Permalink Reply by Rommel Yadao on -
Even the drummer too. So as the people in the brass section!!! LOL
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Permalink Reply by Phil Williams on -
:-)
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He can on Sundays - He is delivering pizza the rest of the week!
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Permalink Reply by Jane - a Daughter of the Most Hi on -
Being a skilled musician, makes better worship music
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