BETTER BY SUNDAY
[ WITH PLANNING CENTER ONLINE AND RICARDO SANCHEZ ]
One of the key missions for Worship Musician
Christmas or Easter service?
[Ricardo] I totally agree. It helps make a large
is helping teams get #BetterBySunday and as
team small by keeping everyone on the same
you’ve probably noticed we believe that PCO [Ricardo Sanchez] PCO is unprecedented in page. It also builds confidence… success
is a phenomenal vehicle for helping teams its efficiency to communicate to teams. Making on Sunday starts with communication on
bring their best on Sunday morning. If you’ve a live record is very similar to the energy and Monday, and PCO has made me a rock star
ever tried sharing songs and charts via eMail effort required to do a production like Christmas at communicating. PCO also holds people
in preparation for a big production, one can or Easter. It’s priceless in its ability to share accountable for the service and the part
really appreciate the project management side lyrics, video, and really streamline the process they play, which builds a team of leaders,
of PCO. If you’ve got a Christmas production so everyone is on the same page. not followers.
a great opportunity to streamline the production [WM] When did you start using PCO and what [WM] What were some of the specific benefits
process for you and your teams. are some of your favorite features? of using PCO for the pre-production on “Taste
coming up and aren’t using PCO, this might be
and See”?
Another
somewhat
obvious
production
[Ricardo]
I
started
using
PCO
as
a
application for PCO is helping manage the worship leader literally since its inception. It [Ricardo] Keeping everyone informed. All of
recording production process. You will read revolutionized how we communicated to our our team was coming from different parts of
in our upcoming December issue a feature team and our department. We no longer had the country so they were all able to show up
interview with Ricardo Sanchez and how he to duplicate and hand out rehearsal CDs to prepared. I always say the difference between
used PCO to share the charts and MP3s with everyone – it was awesome. My favorite feature practice and rehearsal is that you practice
his band prior to the rehearsal days leading up is the library of songs and how accessible charts at home and you show up to rehearse… to
to the album’s live recording. Noting that we are are. I love it, but I also love how it helps me build rehearse what you’ve already learned. PCO
all interested in getting great results efficiently. community within my worship department and allowed everyone to get the songs and learn
If you haven’t already had a chance to do so, keep everyone unified. their part prior to showing up to rehearsal. PCO
I strongly encourage you to check out Ricardo
also allowed us to quantum leap when we
[WM] One of the reasons we love PCO so jumped into the rehearsal sessions. We had five
say, the proof is in the pudding. much is that it is a great vehicle for getting days of rehearsal prior to the actual recording.
charts and tracks to a team in the right key PCO removed that weird intimidating initial
[WM] What are some of the parallels you so they can really make the most of their prep part when everyone is connecting at the first
would make in terms of how you used PCO time. While this is somewhat practical in nature, rehearsal. It allowed everyone to jump right in
for the pre-production on “Taste and See” and there is a pastoral care dimension in terms of because they were already prepared with all the
how worship teams could use it to maximize setting your team up for success. What are songs and information they had studied.
the pre-production process going into a your thoughts around this? Sanchez’s new album “Taste and See”, as they
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