Song selection is completely the key if you are to develop into a great worship leader. Choose poor songs and the audience will hesitate and not get into the worship. Choose the best songs, and even if you make mistakes in your worship leading, you will still regularly have a happy audience. The big difficulty is, how do you actually pick out the suitable songs when worship leading. What is the principle? The easiest way to guide you in song selection is to let you to understand what goes through my head when I come to pick out songs for worship leading. I would like to say that I possess a dart board with songs on it, and throw the darts to pick out them (kind of an Aussie Umin and Thumin), but it is nothing so highly developed as that! My song choice does, then again, depend on several factors. 1. In a small church, what is within the abilities of the band members. Believe it or not, when working with substandard players and singers, this has to be realized. If they can't play it, I most often won't do it. Bear in mind, I live in a world where every worship band member or singer is unpaid, in nearly every church, including me, the worship director! 2. I see the worship leaders task as being to direct the congregation into worship, not teach the latest songs. So, I will most often have a limit of one new song, and more often than not do songs people KNOW. This is really important, since people rarely let go and worship while they are learning a song. 3. I narrow the overall song list to 30-40 that are "regulars", but when I pick the song list for the service, I usually make your mind up 4-6 for worship. 4. As a Musician, I tend to take a close look at the key that a song is in. If possible, I will attempt to group songs into groups of keys, and pick songs that are in either the same key, or a key that I feel I can get to without difficulty. This helps me to easily combine songs together. So if, for instance, I have couple of songs in G, with the next song is in A. I can easily roll the final verse of the previous song up so I am geared up to blend to the next song (in A). Then again, the words of the song take preeminence over the key a song is in. 5. I at all times like to work from I/ME songs to HIM songs, that is from songs regarding me, how I feel, what I want, what God is doing in and for me, through to songs that are only, nearly exclusively concerning the Lord. I at all times try and finish on something majestic, that I personally can lose myself in as I worship, say "How Great Thou Art", "Shout To The Lord", etc. I guess, in my heart, worship is always going to be more of Him, and less of me (Jn 3:30). 6. I like plasticity, so I like to have a song up my sleeve, or double back to reprise a previous song, or a song not even on the list, maybe only with a guitar. When leading I merely love to stay fresh, and the band has to just follow along. This freedom adds an element of anticipation, (terror for the band) and the element of faith and trust, and I find it can open my heart and everybody's heart to closer worship. So when you come to pick the songs you are doing, please take particular care and apply at least some of the rules I have listed above. For more information, why not visit our site for FREE tips and ideas to improve your worship leading.
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Song selection is absolutely the key if you are to become a powerful worship leader. Select poor songs and the audience will hesitate and not get into the worship. Choose the right songs, and even if you make errors in your worship leading, you will still regularly have a happy audience.
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