WHY YOUR WORSHIP BAND NEEDS A CLICK TRACK
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In this video, I share five reasons why every worship band can benefit from using a click track or metronome in worship.
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Make sure your singers have the click actually turned up in their ears, haha
My husband and I love click track. It is way better. But the rest of the band didn’t like it. They were very old school and musically immature :(. Eventually it got frustrating and we ended up off the worship team. They believed that it made them worse. Or that click and back track didn’t allow “holy spirit” take control 🙄 we got kicked out saying we had the spirit of being conceited and prideful. :(. It is sad that they dont understand that we try play music with excellence because God deserves our best
It's amazing how just adding a click track will instantly make the band sound tighter. When our youth band plays to a click (because they're playing along with Ableton) there's a drastic improvement over when they play without one.
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I'm thankful that you lived through that accident!!
Yes we use a click. We do a few loops, but mostly a Yamaha click station started by us drummers. Best thing to ever happen to our team. Like drawing a straight line with a ruler versus a free hand. You might get it right with the free hand once or twice but you will be much more consistent using a ruler. I love using it.
Thanks Jake! Great video very informative. Definitely the direction I want to go with our worship band at church.
Sorry to hear about the accident... Glad you're ok... For everyone else new to this video, starts at 2:08
Great video! One thing we did was to have a test run on the 1st Sunday....that way the band gets a little practice run during rehearsal, but we don't actually have to use it "live" until the next week! - Curtis Riley
Dude! Glad you’re ok. Yes we use click tracks From loop community on prime app. 😉👍🏻🎹
Glad you are ok! We use Abelton and Prime for running loops or pads. I’m working out how we will begin using multi tracks and in ears.
Yes 100% we use click track and backing track with my MacBook pro running by ableton live in our worship service
You got the Sean Cannel vibes in your CZcams channel! Nice! Love what you’re doing dude. Keep it up.
I learn from the greatest! haha. Love his stuff.
Great video.
Do you have a video on how to light up videos? or stage? What do you use for your videos? In regards to stage, a video would be awesome for ideas!
Hey Jake, super intrigued by the toolkit. Signed up but haven't seen anything in my email after several days... is there an email I should be unblocking?
So sorry to hear about the accident, but Great Videos and Happy New Year
thanks!
I am glad you got rid of that pain in your neck... (sigh) I know, cringe. Anyways we have done this at our church. At first I just used a little two channel mixer, plugged our iPad that uses the Onsong app. It has a built in metronome and when I added new songs I would just add bpm. Then I ran two outs to my drummer and piano player. It was a cheap way to get started. Then we got the Behringer X32 mixer and added a laptop with abelton live. Now I have started using 1-2 songs with multi tracks in our worship set, and we expanded the click to include bass and guitars. Now I am looking for a wireless in ear for our song leader so that they can hear the click and backing tracks. Thanks for all of your great ideas and abelton tutorials. I do have a question for you? Since we are using more multi tracks now I am starting to get dropouts from my hard drive in abelton. I have RAM clicked to help with this, but if I have more that 3 multitrack songs in a set, the last song always starts cutting out. The only work around has been splitting my songs between two live sets. Could you offer any help with this? Btw I use windows 10 laptop with 8gb of ram and a i7 cpu. Thanks
I'm worship leading and the same thing happened to me I'm just glad no one died
I really want to use these tools to help improve our worship Lord help!
When we used tracks for the first time it was a great success!
If you think all your band members have to be experienced, think again. We were 7 musicians. 4 of us (piano, electric guitar and two singers) had never ever or only 1-2 times played in a band before (and they are not that experienced at their instrument). We have no inear system at our church, so we built it by ourselves and I fired the tracks with Cubase.
But it's too difficult for 4 unexperienced musicians to play to tracks at the first time playing with a band, so only the bass player & singer, one guitarist and me (drummer) had inears and tracks. We practiced very hard and it was better than ever before. So jump in and try it. If we made it, you can make it.
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I have a Ketron SD 40 arranger module, this can play 6 channel WAV files and has a single out for track 6, so this can used for click and cue and annoying musicians too....
Click won't help if you can't play to it. Coming from drum perspective. Most drummers who take their craft seriously, play to a metronome. For the most part, key, bass, and guitar players don't make a click track part of their core practice system. In all acutallity vocalist should personally practice against a metronome. WHAT I WILD CONCEPT! When your whole band can dial in their INTERNAL CLOCK, that's when you got something great. 5 ways to improve your timing. Should be a video bro.
Skip Ableton and just use the PRIME app in the App Store by Loop Community. It’s free and you can load your own tracks to it. It is a killer app that allows musicians to practice during the week and then implement during the weekends. It’s awesome. Try it!!!
Prime is great! I prefer Ableton because of the advanced features like production automation
So question: Our church does use (and really can't afford) in-ear monitors. Would a click track in the floor monitors be too distracting for the congregation?
In some songs, a cowbell wouldn't be annoying, in other maybe a tambourine. Some songs doesn't need click to use a backing.
@@robfriedrich2822 we don't use backing tracks. everything is played live,
Hey random question but does Ableton Live sponsor any of your content like this one? I've just seen them come up a lot from your videos 😂
haha nope. They should but they don't. One of my most popular courses is on Ableton Live so that's a large part of my business.
@@Churchfront fair, cheers for clarifying :)
God bless brother. I was in a bad accident last year on my way to church, where I flipped in my truck 3 times. I’m happy you are fine and I know God has blessed both of us with life.
Oh no! So glad to hear you are okay too. Yes I’m so grateful God blessed us with safety!
Dude to be honest my equipment needed half an hour to load this video and I'm now a third of the way in and you have not addressed anything at all about the premise of the video, I get it but shortcuts would be pretty neighborly
Never have used a click, and I'm a fan of them, or metronome, while practicing scales (which I quit doing in the 80's once I learned my role in music was as a singer/songwriter, and not a precision soloist, too much ADD for that noise...) and to get down the concept of timing. Being a percussionist / drummer at heart, I happen to have an internal metronome. Not everyone does, and I and everyone, has gotten lost in a song via distractions, lack of focus, etc. But, honestly, I would MUCH rather everyone practice, practice, practice together and get the feel for how YOUR version of the song will go. Doesn't have to always sound like the recording. I get the message here. I would be willing to try it, but man, I would be on the rebel side until proven otherwise. As has been stated elsewhere, do you know ANY other band, anywhere, that uses a click?? Come on, man. If you have a weaker player, or a drummer who struggles with time, play without the drummer until he/she gets it. Practice at home w/ metronome until he/she hears the click in his/her head, then bring them in. Less can be more! If you have players struggling to keep up or can't. Perhaps, ask them to hold off, practice some more, worship with minimal musicians, actually WORSHIP with minimum instruments, using mostly vocals, or just a piano &/or guitar, and just get to the 'heart of worship'.... IMO, if you're in a massive church with a surplus of players, you should have folks who can keep time, man. Honestly. Just practice together, keep it fun! But, hey... that's just me...
Is click-track fit for the purpose in corporate Church worship?
Click-track, while being able to operate in perfect tempo and synchronize lights etc, it yet remains static, unbending and in-organic to expression unlike the Holy Spirit. It can also become an excuse to exclude any number of skilled and sincere musicians who desire to be involved in the process of Holy Spirit lead worship. Being replaced by a machine, can the Holy Spirit be pre-set through use of technology? Is it more important to keep in step with a machine or the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit cannot, should not and will not be pre-set.
Technology can improve performance, but can it lead worship? The key word is performance. Is worship about, performance or the lead of the Holy Spirit? Surely only the Holy Spirit can enable people to lead worship. Worship is not a performance. It is giving thanks and praise to our Lord God by following the lead of the Holy Spirit. Can music be felt when using click-track?
Technology can, however, be a useful tool with the right motivation. Say for instance, when used during practice sessions or learning a new song. However, surely songs need to be open spontaneity. For example, just because a song is rehearsed at 145bpm or 74bpm, doesn’t mean it will work best at that tempo when used with the congregation. Maybe during practice night, a song is rehearsed to start big with an electric guitar intro, but come Sunday, it seems right to start with just the acoustic guitar and vocals. What if, halfway through the song, the leader feels they should slow it down? What happens to the click-track then? Therefore, shouldn’t control of a song be left to the Holy Spirit?
Should we highly value the Holy Sprit’s spontaneity in worship? Those
un-rehearsed moments when anything can and will happen. Spontaneous,
cannot have a pre-set tempo. Therefore, while click-track may be
appropriate for musicians focused on singing worldly songs, or for
practice, has it any value in anticipating Holy Spirit spontaneous,
moments of exuberant praise or intimate worship?
Does using click-track immediately tell us worship is focused more on the
songs? Does it focus on the song and neglect anything that the Holy Spirit
might potentially want to express during and between songs? Should
songs always be played and sung how they are written, or should the
Holy Spirit be ‘given licence’ to re-arrange them in meeting the needs of
the moment?
Can technology become an ‘end in itself’, a way to ‘keep up’ with society, and exclude the Holy Spirit? Can worship become just a human expression? Is being ‘boxed-in’ probably the best way to describe worshiping to an electronic metronome? Ultimately, should worship be about expression through the Holy Spirit, or a machine's accuracy?
Should we be against technological advances? Or should we evaluate our
motivation for click-track? Is it fit for the purpose in Church corporate?
worship?
Or a turtle neck.