USA East Music BULLETIN - SPRING 2019 - ISSUE 2 | Page 12

UNBOUND AT WORSHIP ARTS
By Doug Berry, Territorial Contemporary Music Director, THQ
MARCH 1-3, 2019 — Having been born into a Salvation Army
family I’ve been to my fair share of weekend events. Many of
them were tremendously Spirit filled. But the Worship Arts
Weekend that UNBOUND recently took part in hits the top of
that list. From start to finish and from delegate to participant
the event was filled with likemindedness and Jesus centered
teaching and worship. We were blessed to provide worship for
the weekend as well as engage in in-depth teaching and master
classes in “Technology in Worship,” “Arranging for the Band You
Have” and “Transitions in Worship.”
For the “Tech in Worship” class Felipe Concha discussed
various uses of equipment and software such as Ableton,
Logic, Garage Band, Prime (from loop community), Main Stage,
USB Audio interface and Midi controllers. He also dove into
incorporating technology into our worship sets, identifying how
to use what we already have to enhance our local worship as
well as resource sharing.
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For Victor Morales’s workshop, “Arranging for the Band
You Have”, he discussed the musical tendencies of worship
music today and how to adapt this music to whatever band
format might be available at the delegate’s corps. They tried to
understand the general role of each instrument in a worship
band. As part of his practical approach, specific band formats
were discussed as well as key elements to gain a good band
sound no matter how big or small your group is.
And finally in “Transitions in Worship”, Doug Berry talked about
ways to avoid those awkward silences between songs or items
in the program...OR...how to boldly embrace them! “Transitions
don’t need to be fancy, they just need to be prayerfully planned
and anticipated.”
There was impactful worship all weekend. We believe lives
were changed and God was honored. Can’t wait for the next
one!! ■
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