Essential Skills for Electric Guitar
The electric guitar is a powerful, versatile tool and yet many guitarists struggle to break beyond box positions and a collection of favorite chord voicings. This session is designed to provide you with practical resources for creativity and greater expression across the entire length of the fretboard. We’ll explore a wide range of topics that […]
Essential Skills for Acoustic Guitar
As a rhythm and melody instrument, the acoustic guitar is a uniquely expressive tool, though its potential is often left undeveloped. In this session we’ll explore a system for voicings and interpreting charts that will equip you with a wealth of creative options.
Electric Guitar: Maximizing Your Contribution
The electric guitar can play so many roles as we’re leading and serving on our teams from week to week. From rhythm and lines to textures and ambient playing, come and equip yourself to maximize what you can offer as we dive into a variety of concepts and techniques.
Drums and Bass: Building the Foundation
The foundation of your band is the rhythm section composed of the drummer and bassist. Musical chemistry between these members is worth attention and development. You’ll learn in this seminar how to apply practical tools for each instrument and explore how they can serve the song by filling in spaces and working with the rest […]
Bass: Craft and Creativity
A competent bassist understands how harmony, melody and rhythm can enrich even the simplest of arrangements. To that end, this seminar will cover techniques such as open and closed chord voicings, counterpoint, scales, modes, and inversions. Of course, the challenge every musician faces is how to take technical skill and apply it in a way […]
Band on the Run
This seminar was a hit at WorshipGod06 so we’re offering it again. You have three songs to learn and one hour to learn them. How do you develop arrangements quickly? Using simple but tested principles, you’ll see how you can maximize your musicians, and develop good musical arrangements in less time than you think. Different […]
Auditioning and Developing Musicians
How do you incorporate new musicians into your team? Whether you’re just getting started or oversee a large group, this practical seminar will give you specific ideas for cataloguing and maximizing the musical gifts in your church.
Planning Sundays
What should we sing this Sunday? Join the conversation as three leaders walk through how they specifically plan for leading in congregational song. Topics of discussion include choosing songs, the structure of our gatherings, introducing new songs, and the questions you (yes, you) bring.
Pastors and Artist Musicians Working Together
Not every Christian musician is called to serve exclusively on the worship team. What kind of relationship should there be between the local church and musicians who feel called to serve outside the bounds of the congregation? How does a pastor encourage and lead artist musicians to use their gifts without exalting them? What can […]
Making Room for the Spirit’s Leading
This seminar is designed to increase your eager expectation for the presence of God’s Spirit in your meetings. We’ll look at questions like how do you help your church learn to expect and appreciate the spontaneous activity of the Spirit in your meetings? And how do you guard against spontaneity becoming a faithless activity or […]
Let All the People Be Glad: Corporate Worship and Expressiveness
What is the role of physical expression in congregational worship? How do you discern between natural response and drawing attention to yourself? How are we to understand the biblical examples and commands of physical expression? How do you lead a lifeless congregation in heartfelt engagement with God? Bob will address these questions and more in […]
Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Leading (Part 2) [WG14W]
This workshop is geared specifically towards those who are responsible for leading or planning the music for the Sunday gathering in their local church. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Bob will be covering a wide variety of topics including the role of a worship leader, a leader’s relationships, how to pastor your church […]
Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Leading (Part 1) [WG14W]
This workshop is geared specifically towards those who are responsible for leading or planning the music for the Sunday gathering in their local church. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Bob will be covering a wide variety of topics including the role of a worship leader, a leader’s relationships, how to pastor your church […]
Leading in Prayer
Leaders can easily underestimate the effect their public prayers can have on the church, for good or ill. In this workshop you’ll learn the importance of modeling Scriptural, engaging, gospel-aware, Spirit-empowered prayer, and be equipped in the practice of it.
Growing Your Team for the Glory of God
Anyone who’s led a team for longer than a week knows it involves more than music. Relational conflicts, spiritual dryness, apathy, lack of focus, and envy are just a few of the challenges a leader will have to deal with in team members at some point. How does a leader effectively nurture a team in […]
Growing in Grace as a Leader
Is your church and worship team a place of encouragement and refreshment? Or is it a place of criticism, irritation, jealousy, gossip, and selfish ambition? It is not sufficient to sing a message of grace; we must also strive to create a culture of grace with our lives. Leaders bear unique responsibility to set an […]
Gospel-Centered Everything
Recent years have seen a spate of “gospel” books–defining the gospel, discussing the gospel, applying the gospel–which is all to the good. However, it’s possible to discuss and celebrate the gospel without allowing it genuinely to shape our lives, our homes, and our ministries. How can we keep the gospel from being merely a slogan? […]
Faithfulness from Generation to Generation
How do multiple generations work together to serve the church musically? In this seminar you’ll hear what two generations have learned about serving together in the local church. Come and be inspired and equipped to pass on and receive what really matters in our corporate worship.
Priorities in Planning Your Meeting
The weekly gathering is the most important event of a church’s life together. And yet often our planning for that meeting is rooted more in tradition, preference, and pragmatism than Scriptural priorities. What are the most important things to remember and do when the church gathers on Sunday morning? Bob & Jeff, who serve together […]
Planning for Participation: Rehearsing the Right Things for the Right Reasons
Leaders and musicians spend multiple hours, even days preparing for a Sunday morning or an event that is meant to lead people in worshiping God in song. But when the time comes, it often ends up being more a crowd watching a performance than a congregation participating in worship. How do we prepare for a […]
Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Leading [WG15E]
This workshop is geared specifically towards those who are responsible for leading or planning the music for the Sunday gathering in their local church. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Bob will be covering a wide variety of topics including the role of a worship leader, a leader’s relationships, how to pastor your church […]
