he’s a great composer. So, anything he’s going
some have 64 Audio’s.
there was so much freedom in my personal
to have going on, I’m going to have turned up in
worship. So, if I can give any advice to young
my ears a lot because he creates a lot of good [WM] A question from the FaceBook group leaders, it would be just that. Don’t try to copy
moments with his patches. “WorshipLeaders+”. Do you have some advice so much, but use the uniqueness that God has
for young worship leaders? given you. The danger is when comparison
[WM] What other instruments are live for
Elevation Worship on stage?
begins creeping in. That’s what clouds our
[Chris] I am more convinced than ever that minds and throws us off. Comparison is one of
we are going to find not only the greatest the ugliest tools of the enemy, you know?
[Chris] We usually run two electrics, two keys joy when we are operating in our gifts, but plus bass and drums. For our albums, we run also the greatest fulfillment and the greatest [WM] Good answer. Thank you! How much
two drum kits. That’s pretty much it, with me on anointing will flow from a person who is truly are you writing with your Pastor Steven Furtick?
acoustic guitar and four or five vocals. becoming themselves.
[Chris] Oh, all the time! He really, really is
[WM] Are you running tracks and click and, if What I know was present when I was in my extremely gifted in songwriting. I know that is
so, how are you running them? young 20’s and what I try to discuss with other quite unique from my experience at least, to
leaders that are coming through here is never have the pastor as a songwriter. But, he was a
[Chris] Yep, we’re almost always running become so set or attached with “the” way to worship leader and songwriter before he
tracks even if it’s just minimal additions to do something or decide “this is the best way” started the church and kind of hung it up for
the songs. Some songs we rely heavily on to the point where you end up losing your years to get the church off the ground. For the
them. But we’re always running with a click uniqueness; because there is only one of each last five years or so he has come back into it.
and tracks. We run them all through Ableton of us. That’s about as fundamental as it gets, Honestly, I would say he’s one of the best if not
Live. Our drummer fires all the tracks from his but it is so true when I can speak from personal the best wordsmith’s that I’ve known. He has
laptop without using any type foot controller experience that I felt like I wasted a lot of my really helped shape our songs in the last several
or anything like that. But when we’re on the young years trying so hard to be like someone years. His lyric writing is unbelievable. We write
road, we’re bringing a guy who is off-stage else. And it was not until about six or seven together a lot. His participation is critical fo r
running everything. years ago where I literally stopped caring. That the songs coming out of Elevation Church
may sound callous, but I stopped caring in the right now.
[WM] Is everyone using the same in-ears?
sense of that people don’t need another version
of “fill in the blank” worship leader, because
[Chris] Everybody is kind of different. I have there is already that person. When I decided to
JH Audio. Some of the team have Westone and stop caring about that and just become myself,
April 2018
Mitch Bohannon
Developed the Short-Cut Capo for Kyser. Worship
Leader in Louisiana. Married to his beautiful
wife, Noelle, for 23 years and they have three
awesome kids.
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