the parts for each instrument . So you ’ ll have the bass part , the acoustic guitar part , and the electric guitar part . And our electric guitar parts are very detailed . So if you ’ re a Strymon user , it has a picture of the guitar on the guitar part and it goes down the list for what you should do on the screen , and then he shows you how to play the guitar parts . Then he stops and if it ’ s a complicated passage he breaks down the part .
From there we take the MultiTracks and break down every one of the stems of the song . We break down the bass part , the drum part , the guitar parts , and we put each one of those on the MultiTracks . The last thing we do is the vocals , so we have an in-house person singing the lead , and then you get an . mp3 of what the tenor might sound like , and then of all of the different parts , if its two or three part harmonies , you ’ re going to get an . mp3 of that . Then at the end of every session we have vocal warm-ups for all of our singers and it ’ s a five-minute . mp3 and . wav that we ’ ve built that takes professionals , and we have one for males and for females both , and it rolls them through a series of exercises . So when we show up for our rehearsal time period , and our rehearsals are very short and very concise , everyone knows exactly what the expectation is , and as soon as we start the down beat of the song they ’ re giving the front of house audio engineer a warmed up vocal or a guitar that is the right tone . The expectations are set when they roll in .
That ’ s our average Sunday . Now take this to
Christmas , we have very elaborate versions of songs , so we would just enhance that resourcing even more . For Christmas , we might have all of those things , but then we will have stage blocking . So if the singers need to be in a group or spread out for a song we will include that , the choreography is extremely important . You know , a lot of the time the difference between a professional and an amateur is not the sound , it ’ s the blocking that they do . I ’ m not talking about dance moves , but the emoting or knowing what part of the song it is or what ’ s appropriate .
We have one of Beyonce ’ s former backup dancers on staff and she walks us through all of those things so that every campus can be prepared . We have a stylist . And this is not a ‘ money ’ thing , by the way . A lot of churches will say , “ Well you have the money so you can do it .” Take the tenor and soprano part every week , it ’ s literally just someone taking the memo function on their phone and singing the tenor