Creative Chaos: Week 10
Creative Chaos this week is actually in the form of a question:
As a musician on your worship team, what kind of input do you give to the worship leader and/or rest of the worship team on a regular basis?
Or, if you’re a worship leader:
What kind of input do you need/request from the musicians on your worship team?
We have three different leaders at our church, and I’ve found that each leader wants or needs different levels of input at different times for different reasons. For example, tonight at rehearsal we were having a tough time getting through the introductions of a couple of songs, so the bass player and I threw out some ideas. We played around with it a bit on both songs, and came up with something that worked. That approach wouldn’t work with one of our other leaders, depending on the song. However, this other leader might need some input at different times that the other two wouldn’t need.
My goal as a worship musician is to fill in when and where I can, utilize my strengths, and know how to help the team for the overall worship experience.
How does your worship team handle input from individual members?
May 9th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Rick,
When I lead I rely heavily on the rest of my band, and they know this. I do my best to plan the day, flow, and some great starting points, but I never expect it to end there. I do as much hard work as I can in order to bring it to the team and have us create together.
Now there are times when I create a specific vocal lick or keys riff that I want us to build around, but even that we take as an idea and not the final part.
All of this, I feel, builds a fantastic team who learns to trust one another and create music and worship together.
I got to sit down with the David Crowder Band a few years back when they came our way and I asked them how they create such creative and innovative sounds. He said that they have all gotten to know each other and so they trust each other. They don’t have to write the part for the other person but simply say, ‘can you do something cool on the bass here?’ and they all know what to do.
I want my team to be the same way.
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