We're serious about training church bands. Here are some of the resources we use when we run a music training day. Feel free to use them for your own non-profit church band training sessions.
Church band workshops
Instrument workshops
- Guitar workshop
- Keys workshop
- Bass workshop
- Vocals workshop
- Sound workshop
- Drums workshop
- Single note melody instrument workshop
Instrument skill levels guide
These come in handy for auditions, as well as helping people develop their gift
- Guide to using 'levels' sheets
- Drums levels
- Keys levels
- Guitars levels
- Bass levels
- Vocals levels
- Single note melody instrument levels
General training stuff
- Listening grid
- Some thoughts for discussion
- What is praise and worship?
- Further reading
- Garage Hymnal's albums
- Garage Hymnal's 2010 songlist for leading worship
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Playing Piano in Church
- Basic chords: major and minor chords in the key of C major
- Advanced chords: major 7ths, minor 7ths, dominant 7ths, 2nd chords and sus chords
- Chord voicings: simple ideas
- Palette of ideas
- Playing nice