Making your Praise Band R O C K ! Yonsei University - Institute of Worship Arts Spring Semester - Class VI Instructor - Tom Brooks 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 1. Draw a ‘Line-in-the-Sand’ - “Urgent” versus “Important” 2. ‘Clear the Cloud’ - You’ll need Hand-cuffs / wire cutters / padlock / etc... 3. To GROOVE or not to GROOVE... There is No Question! 4. Chart your Course - Write it Right! ...make Players responsible 5. Teach your Children well - listen, adapt, follow, respect, love 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 6. ORCHESTRATE! ...in a Rock-n-Roll way {Gab’s plate} 7. You CAN improve! ...as a Band + as an individual - God’s Grace 8. Just like Diet and Exercise - 9. Band Close / EYE-to-EYE / Monitors low (ears vs. wedges) 10. NIKE! - Just DO IT!!! 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 1. Draw a ‘Line-in-the-Sand’ - The BIG Meeting “Urgent” versus “Important” URGENT IMPORTANT to you to you URGENT IMPORTANT to others to others 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 2. ‘Clear the Cloud’ ...Clean out the low Mid Range (‘Mud Range’) >HAND CUFF Keyboard Player’s Left Hand behind his back >WIRE CUTTERS - cut off lower 2 strings from all Guitars >PADLOCK - remove Bass Pedals from organ; lock in basement ***Leave the Bass Range to the Bass Player 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 3. To GROOVE or not to GROOVE... There is No Question! “What does it mean?!?!?” {let’s talk later} {{Korean Piano Girl}} 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 4. Chart your Course - Write it Right! ...make the Players responsible to get it right Put all the information CLEARLY right in front of them ==> NO ‘ROAD MAPS’! 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 5. Teach your Children well - listen, adapt, follow, respect, love >YOU as a Player... >YOU as a Teacher - ***I hereby Deputize YOU... ==> Go back and teach this Seminar to your BAND! 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 6. ORCHESTRATE! ...in a Rock-n-Roll way Simple Effective Band Arranging {Gab’s plate} 10 Steps to make your Praise Band ROCK! 7. You CAN improve! ...as a Band + as an individual - God’s Grace 8. Just like Diet and Exercise - don’t worry about ‘over-doing’ it