The Fraction Principle is, perhaps, the most important band-arranging principle any musician, worship leader, or arranger can implement immediately to make their music start sounding 100% better. I first heard about The Fraction Principle from my master arranger/co-writing buddy, Bruce Ellis. He spoke in terms of the “Layering Principle”
Rehearsing is just plain, hard work. Every worship leader, band member, and pastor I know all loves the end result of rehearsal – seamless music, the rising and falling of beautiful, passionate worship, and the silent hum of a well-oiled community doing ministry together. But as I
My blog post for today contains a little math. This math does not a contain a revelatory or revolutionary idea, but when applied to worship music, church design, communicating to different demographics in our churches, and reaching out to the world of the 21st century –
There is a better way to make music together as a band, and it’s called The Nashville Number System (NNS). Download the free high quality, printable, easy-to-use PDF Chart below. To teach my own bands the NNS, I created a high quality, printable, easy-to-learn version of it for
A few Sundays ago I was preparing to lead worship. After praying for the best song choices, and considering the message theme for that morning, I chose the song, Great Are You Lord by All Sons And Daughters as the third song in my set. Why? It is
