Product Description
"The Beat Goes On!"
Music as a Corps Ministry - Hardcover
A comprehensive resource valuable to present and future leaders, lay leaders and officers. Covered are topics applicable to all levels of corps music-making:Book Breakdown
- worship planning and song leading
- youth and adult music ministries
- helps for the meeting pianist
- songsters and singing companies
- praise and brass bands
- lesson and rehearsal preparation
- teaching learners on piano, guitar, brass and percussion
- conducting and reading musical scores
- online appendix and audio resources
- PART ONE: Music Ministers
- Chapter 1: From Minstrels to Ministers - Daring to Draw Near
- Chapter 2: Sunday Morning - A Lifeline to the Church
- Chapter 3: Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet - Making Things Happen at Your Corps
- Chapter 4: Workers Together - The Corps Leadership Team
- Chapter 5: Then Sings My Soul! - The Song Leaders
- PART TWO: Youth Music Ministry
- Chapter 6: Let The Children Sing! - Training Young Singers through Small Group Instruction
- Chapter 7: The Right Song For Your Kids - Bit by Bit, Putting It Together
- Chapter 8: All Hail To Daniel's Band! - Building an Instrumental Program from the Bottom Up
- Chapter 9: God's Special Instruments - The Brass and Drum Instructor's Toolbox
- PART THREE: Adult Music Ministry
- Chapter 10: What's The Score? - How to "Hear" a Vocal or Brass Score
- Chapter 11: From Score Reading to Score Study - Marking a Vocal or Brass Score
- Chapter 12: Awake My Voice and Sing! - The Songster Leader
- Chapter 13: The Effective Songster Rehearsal - The Songster Leader's Toolbox
- Chapter 14: Strike Up The Band! - The Bandmaster's Rehearsal and Sunday Preparation
- Chapter 15: Score Study To Rehearsal Strategy - The Bandmaster's Toolbox
- PART FOUR: Worship Leadership
- Chapter 16: Play Me A Song, You're The Piano-Man! - Keyboard Basics
- Chapter 17: Keyboard Worship - The Meeting Pianist
- Chapter 18: More Than A Song - Leading the Worship Team
- Chapter 19: The Holy Hassle Of Another Sunday - The Worship Leader's Toolbox
- PART FIVE
- Chapter 20: Where's The Beat? - Conducting Fundamentals
- Chapter 21: Sticks, Starts and Stops - More Conducting Fundamentals
- Chapter 22: Gesture And Expression - Expanding the Conductor's Toolbox
- Chapter 23: Listen and Respond - Making the Rehearsal Work
- Postlude: Passing The Baton - The Beat Goes On!