We met yesterday morning for a worship band rehearsal. It\u2019s\nthe line up we had the last time we got together to lead worship, about 3\nmonths ago. This would be for a special service in a week\u2019s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three singers sang with a lot of conviction, but it felt apart a little when it turned out they didn\u2019t know one song which I thought they knew. Learning the new song was not a problem. Christ is My Reward<\/em> has remarkable tune \u2013 its melodic inflection sounds like speech; it\u2019s a kind of singing where you tell a story. There is one section in the song with the words from an older song No Turning Back<\/em>. I have led this song in worship in several churches, and still do, and am regularly surprised that very few people knew the older song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the worship rehearsal, the singers preferred the hymns to be done with a quicker pace. I agreed, the pace gives the energy these words in the hymns deserve. Depending on who leads worship, we might sing Be Thou My Vision<\/em> in the modern 4\/4 version, or the traditional 3\/4 version. This time, I preferred the traditional one. I played it in the key of D major so that it\u2019s easier for the voices. The singers also suggested a short musical bridge between the verses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s great when the group raises ideas and preferences, and\nwe can try out variations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We met yesterday morning for a worship band rehearsal. It\u2019s the line up we had the last time we got together to lead worship, about 3 months ago. This would be for a special service in a week\u2019s time. The three singers sang with a lot of conviction, but it felt apart a little when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-worship","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}