Playing in front of a congregation each Sunday is no easy feat. Make sure you are well prepared before giving your best for God and before others.
1) Practice the piano and more preferably the songs you will be playing early in the week and often.
2) Sing while you play so you can have a feel for how well your playing will mesh with the singing.
I’m not going to get into the technicalities of the piano. I think you should understand one thing when it’s comes to playing worship piano songs particularly when you’re starting out. Understand that it’s not about you! You have to get this truth engrained into your head. Nothing you do, when it comes to worship, is about you. As a worship piano player your job is to help the church body worship God. As a matter of fact I think if you are going to play worship piano, you should worship God with your piano. Does this sound far fetched to you? If it does, you need to rethink why you are playing worship piano. If this does make sense to you, make sure even when you are practicing worship music, you are giving glory to God.
If you get an opportunity to play piano for your church or any church, remember who is giving you the chance to play in the first place. It’s not by accident that you are in the position that you’re in. I’ve seen to many pianists who play for the church thinking they are the best piano players that ever graced the face of the earth. Eventually they are brought back down to earth, hard. They no longer play the piano for anyone and they wish they had their position back. Pride comes before the fall. It’s true. God can put anyone who is willing and has the right heart in place of you if you are not humble. I tell you this because I don’t want you mess things up for yourself. Even if you are brand new to the piano, keep what I have said in the back of your mind.
Hey gang! I hope everyone is doing well this week as we prepare for church choir music and all other church music activities for this Sunday!
I wanted to give you a little something that I think may help you as a choir director or worship pastor/worship leader. This is a very simple concept that I myself have used, and it has changed my life. This simple idea can revolutionize your worship services and it can change your life as well! I’m sure by now you’re thinking, “Joe, what single piece of free information can you possibly offer to us that can both revolutionize our worship services and change our lives?!?” Well to that I say, “You’ll be surprise!” You see, when I reveal the details of this “thing” that will change everything, your initial reaction may be, “We already do that! We don’t need help in this area, and this article is clearly not for us.” Well, just give me a minute; If you’ll really get honest with yourself and think back into the past when things may have gone wrong with your church choir music, or maybe just didn’t go as well as you had hoped for, you’ll see what I mean. Ok, enough with the waiting game, what am I talking about? What is this thing that is going to change everything for me?
Preparation.