Tips for Tight Teams: High-Performance Help for Today's Worship Musician

(Worship Musician Presents). Tips for Tight Teams instructs and equips today's worship musician to function on the musical, relational, and technical levels expected of 21st-century worship team leaders and members. Rooted in Sandy Hoffman's "Ten Top Tips for Tight Teams" curriculum, the book covers a myriad of timeless and relevant worship topics, such as: * Worship team mission, unity, and focus * Worship warm-ups * Getting your worship band "out of the garage" * Applying worship chord voicings and vocal harmonies * Comfortable worship keys for vocal range * Reading and writing worship charts * Arranging hymns to fit contemporary settings * Using worship modulations * Implementing free worship chord progressions * Flowing with seamless worship set lists * Leading worship * Worship "do's and don'ts" * Removing distractions from worship * Facilitating worship improvisation * and many more! The goal of Tips for Tight Teams is to elevate skill levels to the point where the worship team is no longer a distraction to the very people it endeavors to lead into worship.

Sandy Hoffman (Santa Fe, NM) has been studying, instructing, and leading worship for over 30 years. He is the author of the Beginning and Essential Worship Guitar and Keyboard books and DVDs, and instrumental guitarist on the Sereno CD from Worship Works! Music. A featured instructor at the Youth with a Mission Schools of Worship and Schools of Music in Missions worldwide, he also writes a regular column called “Tips for Tight Teams” for Worship Musician Magazine. Sandy's personal mission statement is, “To go before the throne of God and take others with me.” He practices this mission while acting as the Minister of Worship Arts at Grace Community Church in Santa Fe, NM.