As a worship leader, there’s nothing better than finishing a worship service where it seemed that everyone in the entire service was going “crazy” for Jesus. You know what I mean: The worship service where everyone in the congregation is singing, jumping, lifting their hands, stage diving (okay, maybe not stage diving). The point I’m …
Dead or Alive? The Foolproof Way To Rate Your Worship Services Read More »
I imagine that many of us are familiar with the concept of having both a youth band and a separate “big church” band. Today, I’m going to do what I do best and challenge this age old way of doing things. I’m not saying that organizing your team this way is necessarily wrong, but I do …
3 Reasons Why Your Youth Band Is Killing Your Worship Team Read More »
The nerve of people to think that they are entitled to freely adjust knobs and sliders on our church sound boards…Right? Do they know that we’ve slaved for hours to meticulously get the right sounds and levels? This post isn’t just for all of our sound people here, it’s also for all of us who’ve been cussed out …
3 tips for keeping people off of the church sound board Read More »
At Worship Online, we split our electric guitar tutorials into electric 1 and electric 2 parts. Because of that, a very common question we get is, “What do I do If I’m my band’s only electric guitar player?” Many of us don’t have the liberty of having 10 guitar players ready to go every week. …
What to do if you’re the ONLY electric guitar player in your band Read More »
Does your band play with a click track? (Also known as click, guide, metronome, the channel everyone turns off in their Aviom) I’m willing to guess that many of you are, but I’m also willing to guess that many of you are not. If you’re not, I want to convince you today why you should… …
4 Reasons Why Your Worship Band Should Use A Click Track/Metronome Read More »
Today’s post is written by our team member/vocal instructor Thomas Daniel! While it’s true that a minority of churches pay every member of the worship team, the chances are that more often than not, we’re working with and leading volunteers. I’ve been a part of churches with a staff/paid band, and I’ve also been on teams …
4 Tips For Leading Volunteers That Actually Stick Around Read More »
You’ve spoken, and we’ve listened! In the past couple months, we’ve launched a ton of new features to Worship Online. And they’re all features that you guys have requested! So you don’t miss them, here are some of the key features that we’ve recently added. 1. Favorites Section Now you can favorite or “heart” any song …
Every day we get tons of great worship leading questions from guys! So I thought, what better way to introduce our newest team members, Thomas and Anna, than to ask them your questions and capture their completely unscripted responses. Having worked very closely with them over the last few months, I must say that I couldn’t have found a better …
Today I want to answer a question that we get quite frequently here at Worship Online. The question usually goes something like this: “I am so focused on what I’m playing a lot of the time. How do I still focus on God and worship while I’m playing my instrument.” I’ve got 3 points to make while …
How To Actually Worship While Playing Your Instrument Read More »
Today we’re wrapping up our series on how to get more worship team members. I commend you for sticking with me this far. Some of the things we’ve talked about aren’t easy, and some may be hard to swallow; but when you start to implement them, you’ll be swimming in worship team members. (…kind of …
5 Steps To Get More Musicians and Vocalists (Part 4) Read More »
