Secret to Playing Well Together: Separation

Separation is the key to playing well together as a band. Separation is taking turns playing in different ranges. Separation keeps the song from becoming sounding dull and muddled. This is the single greatest mistake skilled solo instrumentalists make when playing in a band.

Paul Baloche takes you through the evolution of a praise band and gives some examples on how instrumentalists can implement separation.

God of Wonders @ New Song Cafe

This is a video on how to play God of Wonders on the guitar by the song writers themselves, Steve Hindalong and Marc Byrd.

This video is part of a series of videos produced by New Song Cafe. You can sign up to get the latest videos and free sheet music. Some of the older videos, like the one below, are available at YouTube. Just search for "new song cafe" at YouTube.

Hillsong Guitar Workshop - Mighty to Save, Higher, Follow the Son

This video teaches you the electric guitar parts for "Follow the Son" from the Hillsong London album Jesus Is and "Higher" and "Mighty to Save" from the Hillsong album Mighty to Save. Also in this gem of a clip is Nigel Hendroff explaining the rig (amps, effect pedals, guitar) and pedal settings he uses for these songs .

New or aspiring electric guitarists: figuring out electric guitar equipment and settings can be overwhelming at first. Anticipate guides regarding electric guitar equipment and settings in the future!

Heart of Worship

Leading praise is more than a perfect performance! It's all about engaging the congregation's heart. If you put on the greatest performance of all time and don't get your congregation to engage, then that's all your performance will be: a performance. Worship is so much more than keeping beat, staying on key, hitting the notes, and perfect execution.

To really be clear about what worship is, check out Joe Horness' talk entitled "Back to the Heart of Worship" which was given at the 2005 Willow Arts Conference. It is the clearest presentation on worship is I've ever heard. Joe Horness is a godly man who really loves the Lord, and I believe that you'll get a lot out of this message.

If I can get a hold of a free version, I'll link it here. Meanwhile, it's for sale at the Willow Creek website: Back to the Heart of Worship. If you're a praise leader, you MUST listen to this!

Hello World!

Praise Team Guide was started to be a service for Christian praise teams and musicians. Our hope is not to create the most comprehensive Christian praise site on the net. That'd take a lot of work and frankly, we're quite busy. But what we can do is bring together some of the best video, audio, and articles we come across on the web in the hopes that it'll benefit someone along the way!