WORSHIP PRODUCTION
[ PREVENTING 5 CLASSIC WORSHIP & TECH TEAM FAILS, EPISODE 3 | Doug Doppler ]
In the hustle and bustle of weekly worship recaps are the rails upon which your teams FAIL #2 NOT KEEPING YOUR TECH TEAM IN THE
services, many churches miss the opportunity move forward together in unison. As we head ASSET LOOP
to bring their worship and tech teams together into the new year, there is no time like the In Episode 2 of this column we talked about
to address the ongoing “global” challenges that present to take your Sunday services to the having a production meeting before each
these teams face together on a regular basis. next level, so here are some of the classic fails service to talk through key audio cues. While
Sunday morning is a great time for team leads that this “global” approach can easily fix. this is a great start, getting them on the same
page happens long before Sunday.
to bring everyone together in order to cast
vision and set culture. A vision of unity breeds a FAIL #1 NOT IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING SOLUTION: Make it a practice to share audio
harmonious culture where the worship and tech GLOBAL PROBLEMS files, song forms, and lyrics to your tech peeps
teams work together, free from the divisive “us Whether it is a drummer who plays too loud or at the same time you share them with the team.
vs. them” mentality that far too many churches a cranky sound person, these global problems It will make them feel included and also means
face. Setting goals around global challenges affect everyone. they are accountable for knowing the material.
like drum volume allow us to come together SOLUTION: Getting your worship and tech team in unity to address the chronic problems that leads together to identify these global problems FAIL #3 NO SUNDAY RECAP
don’t go away without real teamwork. Pre- is a great way to set a global approach for Immediately after service is one of the few
service production meetings and post-service addressing and fixing them! times that everyone who is rostered on a given
Sunday are in the same place at the same time.
SOLUTION: Spend five minutes talking about
what worked and what didn’t work across the
entire production spectrum with the goal of
making continuous improvement each week.
FAIL #4 CHANGING THE KEY SUNDAY MORNING
As Ricardo Sanchez points out in this issue,
preparation happens before and not during
rehearsal. Changing the key on the worship
team on Sunday morning is totally preventable,
as are resulting train wrecks like capo’ing at the
wrong fret.
SOLUTION: Planning Center Online makes it easy
to transpose charts and audio files, so you can
find and document the perfect key for each
singer.
FAIL #5 CAPO’ING AT THE WRONG FRET
Speaking of capo’ing at the wrong fret, how
many times have we seen this happen even if
the key of the song didn’t get changed at the
last minute?
SOLUTION: Before Sunday morning practice
cycling through the first chord of each song,
moving the capo to the appropriate fret (if
used), in the order in which they’ll be played.
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