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Prestonwood Worship with Michael W. Smith “We Believe” //
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thoughts about this somewhat sensitive topic. music, the expression, the text, and the lyric. driving him early on in the ministry. I heard this
said more than once, that I was driving him and
[Michael] One of the super important things We use confidence monitors, but they’re obsessing over the patterns he was playing,
we teach our teams here is to internalize supposed to be there to prevent a disaster, wanting him to be on the grid and the click. He
everything that we are doing. I think the they’re not supposed to be there as a, “Hey, I told me that I needed to loosen up. I told him, “I
challenge is, I’m forty-six, when I was twenty- didn’t listen to anything this week and I’m just totally understand what you’re saying, however,
six, I could memorize at a different level than I going to wing it!” tool. So, I think for us it is a when we get it right it removes distraction.”
can now. I mix up lyrics to the songs that I have ‘both, and’. Everybody strives for excellence, When we’re not completely dialed-in we run
written and sung a thousand times (laughs). and my definition for that is just doing the very the risk of distracting other people. So, playing
Yes, songs that I have actually personally best possible at every juncture. It’s giving your excellently, learning the music, learning the
scribed. So, I think the issue is making sure that very best all the time. parts, dialing in the lyrics, all of that is extremely
our teams sense the weight and importance of
what’s happening as they are internalizing the
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important.
I once had a drummer ask me why I was always
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It’s
musically
and
spiritually
important that preparation is paramount. It’s a
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