Who’s in a praise team?

Music Director
Vocals
Instrumentalists
    -Guitars
    -Keyboards
    -Percussion
Composer & Writer
Crew
 


Worship Leader (Spiritual, Voice, Guitar)

Role

-To be a connection between the minister of service and the worship team
-To take care of the spiritual condition of team members
-To make decisions in leading worship music in service with the music director
-To lead worship service, concentrating on the congregation

Famous worship leaders
- Darlene Zschech
- Chris Tomlin
- Matt Redman
- Michael W. Smith

 
 

Music Director (Music sense & skill)

- To be a connection between the minister of service and the worship team
- To take care of the spiritual condition of team members
- To make decisions in leading worship music in service with the music director
- To lead worship service, concentrating on the congregation-To be connection between worship leader and music team in service -To take care of music direction and harmony of team members -To decide the direction of music with worship leader -To lead the music team, concentrating on the worship leader

 
 

Vocals

Role

- To deliver words and lyrics with harmony
- To support worship leader’s singing
- To lead congregation to participate in singing

Good example tracks on Vocals
 “When I think about the Lord“ by Shane & Shane
 “Adonai“ by Avalon
 “I offer my life“ by God is good

 
 

Instrumentalists

-To help the congregation to concentrate on God during service through music.
-To deliver message in lyrics much effectively with music


Guitars

-Acoustic Guitar
: Basic part of accompaniment
: Usually it’s played by the worship leader
   - easy to lead worship
: Awesome God by United Live -Bass Guitar
: To balance the over-all sound with low pitch
: Played with bass drum’s rhythm
: For All You’ve Done by Hillsongs -Electronic Guitar
: To make many different colors of sounds in music
: “One way“ by Hillsong

Keyboards -Piano
: Basic part of accompaniment
: Usually it’s played by the music director
  - easy to lead the music team
: “There is none like You” by Fred Hammond -Synthesizer
: To fill the empty parts of music with variety of sounds
: “Salvation is here” by United Live


Percussion
-Drums
: To lead and modulate speed in songs with beat, rhythm
: “Track 1” by Salvador
-Others
: To make special atmosphere with all kinds of rhythm instruments
: “Arise” by Paul Baloche

 
 


Composer & Writer

-To make new songs with a message that the team wants to deliver
-To arrange songs for natural flowing

 
 


Crew

Sound Engineer
-To harmonize and balance all sounds and instruments with the sound system
-To record the worship

Visuals & Lighting
-To improve visual look of praise
-Responsible for MediaShout, Powerpoint, etc.

 
 
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