Piano or keyboard players often provide the foundation to most church music teams. Most of the time, you have a very well-trained pianist and musician taking up residence at the keys.
However, it is often difficult for pianists to make space for other musicians in the team, purely because the piano or keyboard is able to handle melody, harmonic movement and rhythm all at once! And that is the way we are taught to play it. Or you may find some songs are actually difficult to lead effectively from the piano, because they are written for more of a guitar-oriented team, and then you are left wondering what to play.
This excellent tutorial from Sovereign Grace Ministries should be compulsory listening for all church pianists and keyboard players. In just over an hour, Jon Payne (pastor at Sovereign Grace Church, Gilbert, Arizona) teaches trained and untrained piano and keyboard players to make the most of their instrument as they serve both the congregation as well as their fellow musicians.
Topics covered include chord construction, inversions, scales, arrangement, left and right hand techniques, voicing, ranges and improvisation (melodic and harmonic). And the best part is that you can download the .mp3 and the .doc outline for free here
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