After a discussion with one of my drummers I decided to come up with the top six ways for drummers to get kicked off the worship team. Enjoy 6. Play a 6/8 drum beat no matter what meter the song is in. 5. Play the beat from We Will Rock You on every song. No matter what! 4. Show up with a beer in hand and a cigarette in you mouth and yell at the sound man the whole rehearsal. 3. Go off on a 6 min. drum solo at the end of a really worshipful...

A few weeks ago we took our first crack at free worship at a church.  What is free worship?  I’m calling it this but I heard it called ad lib, Hillsong titles them Selah on their CD’s.  Whatever you want to call it, I love it.  Basically what it is, is a instrumental section where the congregation (and worship team) sings, prays, shouts unplanned words.  The idea here is that the congregation express their hearts to God.  The...

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about our values in worship; asking myself questions like, why is it that I lead in a certain way? What is it that I am passionate about? What is it we are trying to achieve in a corporate time of sung worship? To me it seems the values behind what we do are absolutely essential. The style and practice may vary, but the values need to be clear and considered. With some help from Tim Hughes and Richard...

Well it’s been over two months since I last posted and feel it is time to start things back up. Today was…well…interesting?  during the services my mind was all over the place.  Musically we were not very together today, actually it was really rough.  We had tempo issues (RUSHING!!!), missed chords, some interesting harmonies.  I hope that it was not so bad that others were unable to engage completely with God.  I had a...