How to lead
A Church Choir
7 TIPS EVERY CHOIR DIRECTOR MUST KNOW
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seven ensure you have a proper
administrative structure acquires a
group of people coming together and you
as a music director cannot do everything
by yourself so if you need to create an
organic Ram based on the needs of your
choir then do so if you need to have
sectional leaders leaders for Altos
soprano tenor band leaders you know all
of these people recording back to you
then you should have a Clair structure
and let the choir know what the people
in those various roles because that
means that you have a proper order in
the point six recognize that you require
a volunteer it's not it's important that
you give the choir members schedule
ahead of time give them because they go
to work so you need to put those things
in their schedule it was a Christmas
program it's a referrals recognize them
they're volunteers and they're gonna
need enough tons to do it again make
sure to put things together five as a
worship leader a music director when you
have to select songs it's very critical
that you remember you know what are what
is a praise song and what is a worship
song let that be a structure to the way
you're selecting the songs if you've not
seen our video on what the difference
between praise and worship then you need
to go watch that video because it is
critical that the Lord gets his grace
and he's worship in service and you
should have a proper plan in place a
proper structure in place for how you
set together the song list for praising
worship in church for establish
consistent
time now it's important that you
actually have consistency in your time
for rehearsals let's say for example you
haven't Tuesday band rehearsal and then
Thursday choir rehearsal that maybe 30
minutes before service soundcheck
establish consistent time 3 constructive
criticism as a music director you want
to always ensure that when you are
criticizing you create critique in the
performance of a member of the choir it
is constructive there's something called
the sandwich method whereby you say
something positive first because
everything could have not be totally bad
if a worship leader led a session of
worship and something went wrong the
person went off-key maybe something was
right like Oh your shoes were nice by
the way but you know something you need
to work on your key you have to work on
the pitch level apply your voice control
breath control and guess what your
shadow look good on the wall just make
sure you start with something positive
and end with something positive such as
the person is encouraged to do better
next time
- Oh choir members time pause yeah I
said it I'm guilty of actual as well now
it's important that she gives you men
choir members
time off you know let's say for example
he had like a long weekend Friday
Saturday Sunday and you have like the
next rehearsal Thursday good tell him
you know what take Thursday off
everybody but make sure you coming say
45 minutes before the service so we
could speak a song that we already have
from your repertoire and so we couldn't
you know coming and just rehearse that
way it kind of refreshes them would be
prepared you do not just want to walk
into choir rehearsal without anybody
knowing what's gonna happen you have to
make sure that you're prepared you got
the songs ahead of time you already sent
it to them ahead of time
and we're coming this is what we're
doing and this is what we're doing next
everything has to be structure people
respect
structure so be prepared come into the
rehearsal and there's high expectations
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