BASIC TIPS FOR WORSHIP KEYBOARD PLAYERS

1. Set up where you can always see the face of your worship or band leader. Signals and communication will be much more intuitive
2. Don’t just stick to piano sounds. Pads, Rhodes, Whirly, Hammond, strings. Variety is the spice girls of music.
3. You are playing in the same sonic spectrum as the lead guitarist so try to hear what each other is playing and work together, combine rhythms, you play low, they play high, you play chords, they play lead, take turns etc. If you can’t hear them at least watch their fingers for the rhythms they play.
4. Use sus2 chords (1,2,5) instead of full triads (1,3,5) – it adds a sense of ambiguity and space to the sound
5. Your left hand performs a very similar function to the bass player so be careful not to clash and give them room to do their job. Common mistakes are playing ‘pushes’ that don’t lock in with the bass line or kick drum, freestyle rhythms that don’t lock in with the main groove and general business.
6. If in doubt tie your left hand behind your back and just use your right hand. I’m serious!
7. Learn the 1st and 2nd inversion of the basic triad so you can link from one chord to the next with the closest voicing
8. Don’t rely on transpose button all the time. Once you are confident in C, learn to play in G then D then Bb, Eb – use the black notes!
9. Use reference tracks and try to copy exact keyboard parts from CDs, it will build your knowledge of sounds and train your ear.
10. Work out what style your band is trying to play in and listen to as much music from those who inspire your sound

FUNDAMENTALS OF A WORSHIP LEADER

FUNDAMENTALS OF A WORSHIP LEADER.

To be a Worship leader you will first have to understand that it’s not about you but in everything you do is for the Glory of the most-high God. A Worship leader should understand that there is only one ministry that God has called every one for, but using different kind of tools and that is “TO RECONCILE PEOPLE BACK TO JESUS”! Therefore music is NOT your ministry rather it is just a tool that God gave you to do the ministry! After understanding that, the following should follow:-

-BE FILLED WITH THE WORD OF GOD & THE HOLY SPIRIT!

You can’t drain water out of an empty well! So you got to be filled first before you start pouring to others!

-LIVE ON PRAYER.

As in all relationships, the more time you spend with someone the better you get to know them and the more you take on their characteristics! Now this kind of prayer shouldn’t just be for making requests and seeking for direction; rather it should be more of you spending time with the LORD who is the BOSS of your ministry, get time to know him better, listen to his instructions and what he wants to do for the season!

-HUMILITY.

Humility is the heart beat of a Worship leader!

“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in every nature of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness” that’s not according to me but according to the bible in “Philippians 2:5-7”..

-NEVER SEIZE TO SHARPEN THE GIFT THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU!

God doesn’t deserve just anything; therefore you ought to be skillful & trained both spiritually and in the natural so that you can give God the very best!

-DO WHATEVER YOU DO WITH LOVE!

-BE EVER TEACHABLE!

                                                                 *BE BLESSED*