King David's Original Music

For those who know me well, I love music. I like listening to it, scoring it, analyzing it, arranging it and composing it. Recently, I've been studying King David's music development strategy. Keep in mind, I do not have a music degree so my knowledge is somewhat limited. So, I find what I can by researching using the Internet for nuggets of info that support the subject. In my personal research, I found a site that used note-for-note transcriptions of the Davidic Cipher to produce an audio of how King David actually wrote his psalms. Hearing music as it was written thousands of years ago absolutely amazes me. The people at "The Music of the Bible" has an incredible compilation of David's psalms transcribed for our listening pleasure. Their site not only provides the audio of the songs, but also the original Hebrew, the English translation, and some very good background information on music in the Bible. Feel free to check out the link, and post here what you think of this ancient Hebrew music. As for me, I love this stuff.

Worship Musician Development

In serving with various worship teams over the years, I've observed all had one commonality. All teams had no musician development strategy in place. When I asked worship leaders, "What do you do with the musician who doesn't make the audition cut?" The typical response is that they instruct the musician to keep working hard and audition in the next cycle. Another situation I've dealt with is when the worship team is closed. The same musicians play week in and week out with no "2nd string" musicians. I must be honest, this dismays me. I know more churches today want a talented praise team so the music flows more seamlessly, and a level of excellence is expected out of the musicians. However, what is the church doing to raise up musicians? From what I've observed, most musicians get their training in public schools, private lessons, community orchestras, garage bands, etc. Where is the church among all this?

Does your worship team train musicians? If so, what process do you have? How well does it work? How many leaders make this process possible? How many musicians do they train? What would you suggest other churches focus on to create such a process?

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Hello, anyone who finds this site. My intention for creating this blog is to create an atmosphere where I can learn from other worshipers. I plan to post my visions and thoughts in hopes that anyone in worship ministries will offer words of wisdom for my growth process.