Music/Worship Leaders

[Digging4Truth]

I have been a choir director/praise team leader etc in the past.

At the church I currently attend I play my sax and sing some.

I'm not sure what the reason would be for not having plenty of songs to play these days.

With sites like iwillworship.com, praisecharts.com etc there should be no problem having chords to more songs than one church could possibly sing.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Oh, the power in the hands of the sound guy! Too bad he used it for evil, instead of good.

I have a friend who started working with the sound a couple years ago. He was great at running the board, but could also be somewhat indifferent to the singers.

If a singer was off-key their mic was lowered in the house speakers, but the singer's in-ear was left the same. That way, the offending off-key voice couldn't be heard by the audience, but the singer wouldn't notice.

There was once when I had the solo to the song and the worship leader started doing this kirk franklin talk-sing thing while I was singing the solo part ... suddenly, his mic just went dead. Of course, he was the type that would stop and pound on the mic head with his hand, lift it in the air and wave it to get the sound techs attention ... in this case, he just got a thumbs up from the sound booth.



He did a great job with the sound and aside from the occasional complaint from a singer - there were no complaints from the audience as there was before he took it over.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by n david

I have a friend who started working with the sound a couple years ago. He was great at running the board, but could also be somewhat indifferent to the singers.

If a singer was off-key their mic was lowered in the house speakers, but the singer's in-ear was left the same. That way, the offending off-key voice couldn't be heard by the audience, but the singer wouldn't notice.

There was once when I had the solo to the song and the worship leader started doing this kirk franklin talk-sing thing while I was singing the solo part ... suddenly, his mic just went dead. Of course, he was the type that would stop and pound on the mic head with his hand, lift it in the air and wave it to get the sound techs attention ... in this case, he just got a thumbs up from the sound booth.



He did a great job with the sound and aside from the occasional complaint from a singer - there were no complaints from the audience as there was before he took it over.

That right there was my biggest problem: weighing the needs and wants of the audience vs those of the praise leader. She wanted it loud. When I told her that people were telling me their ears were hurting, she told me "pay them no mind". And she said if they didn't like it, they could find another church. Sigh.