Tips for MD's (Music Directors) for worship // Sunday Vlog #59
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- čas přidán 19. 07. 2024
- In this Sunday vlog we discuss tips for Music Directors during worship services.
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MD discussion starts at 03:42 in the video. Also - before you comment, please know that Fuller was joking in the beginning of this video 😂.
More MD videos! I'm an aspiring Creative Pastor so I'd like to gain more knowledge
I’m an MD from bass at my church. I’ve been doing it for a little over a year and I’ve loved the ability to give the extra direction. Excellent tool to use!!!
I MD at my church and usually play lead electric guitar but I also MD when I’m on bass occasionally. The first few times doing it was a little nerve racking but I feel blessed that my worship leader trusts me in that position to help the band stay on the same page. I’ve been a MD for almost 3 years and have loved it.
The church I’m in now is the first I’ve been in to have an MD & it makes ALL the difference! So helpful to band members. (I play keys.)
a full run through or show video with the MD mic in the mix would be really cool to hear/see how your MD doing his work.
thanks for your great content and greeting from Germany!!
Lol. I’ve been using that technique for yrs. I hit a wrong not and look immediately at the bass player. He then looks at his fretboard and the crowd thinks he made the mistake. When he finally catches on I will just tell everybody, “ I didn’t hit a wrong note I’m playing the modes it supposed to sound like that.” Thank God for His mercy.
A blessing 🙌 thank you guys !!!
I’ve been a MD for our youth band for about three months and I absolutely love it. Thanks for the tips!!!
Such a helpful video! Love the insights
I’m the MD and lead guitar player at our church. The biggest challenge we had is our sanctuary is small (about 400) and our music is typically not very loud (90ish DB) so I had to get a setup that would allow me to be heard without having to talk at a normal volume. Often I am close to a whisper. We setup a wired SM58 and compressed the heck out of it. That allowed us to bump the gain up fairly high so it can sit on top of the mix. It works pretty well. As a bass player covering lead guitar it is honestly a lot to take on to be the MD as well. I wish I could play bass and MD and leave the lead playing to a “real guitarist.” It works but I’m pretty tired when I get home. Rehearsal, and a clear road map are key to making all of this work for us.
Funny story: one Sunday my MD mic got turned up in the choir monitors. The whole congregation heard me playing air traffic controller. Our choir monitors are on an Aviom mixer so the FOH was powerless to do anything about it. I was using in-ears so I had no idea. The choir appreciated the real-time direction. Oops!
This is my job at my church, it's nice to see we're getting some love! I am 100% in favor of more churches adding this kind of leadership to their bands if they can, it makes a huge difference during worship!
New to MD here, I play bass in my church band and would love more MD videos! Love y'all, God bless!
Music director here from Fort Wayne, IN. Love the channel and the content. Would really love more content on MD’s to grow more in that area and really serve our team. Thanks for all you do!
so so blessed by this
Hello! Firstly, I just got the Helix and I am absolutely IN LOVE with the free patch y'all provide, so big praise on that! Secondly, I am transitioning into my church's first MD role, so if there are tips to practicing and getting a flow down or if there is a series you could recommend I would really appreciate it! Thank you so much and God bless!
My church uses an MD. Right now it’s the worship leader and he wants me to start doing it and starting tracks. Would love to know more! You guys are awesome.
Vocals on point Fuller!
Thanks for this. I was newly appointed in my church as the MD and it's my first time to hold that. I play the bass guitar and I would love to grow more in this position as the Music Director because I believe there is more to it.
I MD from Electric/Lead Guitar, took me a while to find the balance that our band likes between getting directions and being overbearing or distracting. And the way we run it is our WL is the main leader, and MD interprets - WL will usually still make hand calls when they want to go somewhere spontaneous, but otherwise it's reminders, or key moments. And once the vocalists step back, MD takes over. We make sure our WL, MD and pastoral team all talk and discuss and are on the same page, and our services have taken a huge step forward in polish!
Looking forward to the stage design videos! Any tips on how to incorporate modern stage design into older sanctuary spaces?
I love it I’m a voluntary MD !
I would love to see more MD content. I am on staff as our MD for services but I also do all the scheduling, running rehearsals, prepping tracks and Im the bass player. Musical theory and experience is crucial for this role in my opinion!
I'm our MD and lead guitarist too. There are few vids on YT with this combination as it seems its usually the Bassist or Keys.
So I'm going to start chucking some videos up of what I do, especially as we are a small ish church. Only 300 people on a Sunday morning. So we use InEars and Click but no backing tracks or complicated setups. Might help some people out.
4... 4 am for the last two year :)
Portable church is great 😬!
MD here!! I would love to see soem MD cam videos!!
Dude, sounds like what you're talking about is a trained musician - like the chief musician in the OT. Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthan. The dudes who were in charge of the temple worship. But it might help to compensate someone like that. If a person has invested time, money, and mental and spiritual energy into becoming what you need, a small stipend might help. Volunteers might or might not have the skill level you need and if they do they probably shouldn't be volunteers, since an MD is going to have to do two or three jobs on a Sunday and during rehearsals.
Would love some more MD material. Been doing it for about 2 years now and I want to improve as the MD so any other tips you guys have please!!
I do MD stuff. If you're actively using an MD on stage, like calling out transitions live, even key changes it sounds like? Do you enforce a level of NNS knowledge with your people? Because obviously if the MD goes "4-5-1" and that means nothing to the acoustic player that's awkward. Or are they calling chord letters and letting people worry about their own transposing?
I think the best part of having the MD isn't so much what it takes off the WL, but how much easier it makes life for everyone else. It means that only one person needs to be watching the WL for queues. If I see the "C" behind the back I know we're going to repeat the chorus, I call that out and then the vocalists, who aren't looking at the WL's back, know as well. Makes things so much smoother in less structured places.
bassplayerjosh most of my churches worship team are volunteers of varying skill levels. But depending on the team members we have, we will interchange between NNS and regular chord calling. We have a rehearsal on thursdays, and have services on Saturday, sunday and Thursday. If we are introducing a new song or meet and greet chords or ministry time, we will typically send out the chords along with their analog in the NNS. We will also have contact throughout the week and check in with the team. A lot of the expectation is that our team at the very least needs to know the songs, practice them and know the different sections. That way we can give them a reference point of what we may play during a transition.
Looking forward to the led screen video
The “advice” at the start was so funny. Maybe I’m a bad person but I’ve done the sideways look and it works. Also people not picking up on mistakes - true except for the two people who were standing directly in front of me with heads cocked to the side with expressions that said “what???”
Stephen Beck also if you stay quite and just go with it most people wouldn’t even notice
Remember that most of the congregation is pulling for you and wants to see you succeed. We should strive for excellence, but our mistakes and imperfections can make us more relatable to people.
Keith Plaskonos well said!! 💪
Hey WT! Our church is installing a new sound system. We are thinking about moving our amp to a closet off stage. It would be a 250 ft+ cable run. What can we do to keep signal degradation to a minimum? Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Just a useless tip for anyone that is watching: play the video in 1.5x when Angelo is speaking, his voice gets really soothing 😂😂
Angelo could be a voice actor - for real.
I'm a music director at Saddleback Lake Forest College Ministry!!!!!!
I love Fuller's sarcasm😂
Does the person running tracks in the booth listen to your MD? What’s an easy way to route the audio to them?
P.s. LED walls are the greatest things since... well ever
More MD content!
0:06" chuuuurch on time church on time!"
What is the best microphone for worship directors? One with an On/Off switch? How do you handle stage noise?
a few things:
where is your church and what is it called?
for worship, ya'll have a ton of people on your team. I am at a 500 person church with normally 3 to 6 people and I am normally one of two singers. Maybe do some vids on how we can make that situation ideal for worship?
thanks,
Kody Bryant
Over the past maybe 4 years our team has moved from foldbacks to in-ears, using tracks almost every song, and also having MD. Having an MD has been SO good, but recently the leaders having been sharing that MD load with newbies, including me. I try to know the songs but don't think I am nearly as competent as the others. Note also: I am a keys player & know next to nothing about guitar/bass/drums, so there's that too
Good lord. I don’t have to be at church til 8, so I get up at 7
I love to be an MD
Ooooo led wall 🤤
Hello sir! an 18 year old MD here
we're on duty 6 days a week(no other team for now but God already working on it)
How can i communicate with the team coz we don't have an ear monitor (for now), we're not even using metronome because of it
especially when our drummer is busy looking at the drums and the bassist looking at the fretboard 😆
and also while rehearsing, and during worship
what will i do when everything is messing up?
like the guitarists are having different chords
and the drummer was lost on his beat because the Worship leader will instantly insert (for instance, the worship leader will say Bridge) when it is not part of the sequence of the song that we rehearsed during our rehearsal.
Hello! I am the Worship Pastor at my church however, I act as the MD and have different volunteer worship leaders / vocalists.
I'm wondering if anyone else is in the same boat?
When you call out chord progressions during transitions are you using the Nashville system or something different?
Don't skip the beginning! So funny! 😂
Any tips when yo have to wear both hats; MDs... and worship leader
Im sorry you guys get bad mouthed on here so often. I think you guys are all around cool dudes and real good musicians. I really appreciate your hard work on these videos and the insite you share. Keep up Gods work, God bless brothers (and any sisters that are involved)
Ha the negative comments are few and far between. Most of them are super encouraging - like yours :).
@@worshiptutorials happy to hear that.
More content for MD
Band call time is 6:30! Wake up at 6!
I get up at 6 a.m. leave at 7 and drive for an hour.
Whoah an hour drive - that's commitment
Commenting to that comment. How would a beginner know what is a good teacher? Secondly I guess I never really looked at this channel as a beginner channel. It seemed to me it was for people who knew some music but wanted to learn more technical aspects. 🤷♂️
Usually between 430 and 5
That is really early call time. My called time is 4pm on Sundays.
Anastasia Frederick I wish that was me lol my call time is 8am
Depending on the location I’m scheduled at, my call time ranges from 5:45-6:30.
Is Way Maker the song Fuller refused to key down??
Ha I think that happened a long time ago - you're talking about the comment he made in yesterday's video?
Worship Tutorials yes 🙂
How do you mix the MD mic to help minimize the room noise that bleeds through it?
It's back stage so there's really not much noise back there (we don't use wedges). But all you'd really need is a gate on it and that should clean it up. I'm pretty sure our mic isn't always on, though - I think there's a switch you have to step on before it becomes active - basically an on/off momentary switch (meaning that the mic is on as long as you're pressing down on the switch).
Worship Tutorials I’ve also heard of a mic that will activate when you get close to it, then turn off when you back away...I can’t remember what it’s called:(
Worship Tutorials thank you!!!!
We use an SM57 at our church because it's unidirectional, meaning it's less likely pickup a ton of extra noise from all around and more likely to mostly pickup the MD, who will be speaking directly into it. There is some noise, obviously, but not as bad as an SM58 might have, for example.
I get up at 04:20 call time is 06:00
My MD' main job: crack a random joke during rehearsal/soundcheck to keep the band motivated ;)
I leave at 7:15
Call time for me is 8:30 am
This video makes me not want to be an MD. Sounds like too much work.
hotman718 it’s a ton of fun and rewarding tho 😇
@@bmitchellmusic most definitely. I want to do it eventually when I build up more confidence
I think you have to approach it prayfully & determine if this is the way in which The Lord desires you to serve Him and His people at this time. You may have other ministry priorities which would make this a bad choice for you right now. Remember that your service is to Him and sometimes it will be hard.
Seems like with all of the humor - your "Audition process" video details leave no room for error and is probably more stringent that it should be. What's the "real" process? I don't think we'll ever know. Although some of your material is useful - I think less fluff in your videos and more straight to the point of analysis would be much better to learn from.