What Does A Music Director Do? | A Guide For Worship Ministry 

I'm so used to hearing MD used as "medical doctor" that I had to stop and realize you were saying "musical director" each time haha

Thank you JAKE. Im been following your videos and I look everywhere to find help as few month I became a MD in my church! This helps a lot. Blessings

Awesome vid! Super helpful for new worship leaders/MDs like myself! Keep up the good work fellas!

Thank you so much for these post bro!!! It such a huuuuuuggggeeee blessing to and for me.!!! Keep up the great work. This is a wealth of info.

Good stuff! Ive been the MD for my church for a few years and have been looking for content like this! Super good!

Thanks for this. Helpful.

Dream work )))) Worship, Band, Music, Ableton!!!

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Love this

Great stuff! Thanks

Thank you!

Good Stuff Rolo!

Great vid

Awesome Information thank you so much would like to check should get the chords of the songs/song sheets to be share out with the team first before practicing or on the practice day itself ?

I used to direct without in-ear monitors and never had any issues 👍

Thank you

Hey Jake, love all these videos! I'm a worship director for our youth in CA and each service I had to figure out a way to sing, play, run tracks, and MD. Using my helix, I found out a way for any helix user to play guitar, run tracks, sing, and MD to band. If you're interested in this set up that may help a handful of leaders I'd love to get connected with you. Keep up the great helpful videos.

As for me, True! we need to practice and enhance our talents to show and approved unto God. But our Worship Director is The Holy Spirit.

Thanks

Great!😊

Good video.

Came to learn more about the role of MD, instead I got a sales pitch for Ableton.

Is there a video on your led strip design?

Man. Would love to have you come over to our church and give a seminar. Would that be possible?

Write in written sheet music, it's a good way.

Great video! My wife took over as worship leader at our church but she has to spend so much time focusing on the vocalists because they aren’t really trained. I told her a few weeks ago let me worry about the band. I drum primarily but also do keys and bass from time to time. In my in ears I have everyone turned up and quite frequently the team hears me yelling out chords from behind the drum cage. I was thinking just weeks ago that I should start actually directing the band more. Do you have any recommendations for how to mic a MD in a drum cage properly without having all the drums overtaking the sound?

Yoooo, my man Cory Smith is the best MD evaaaa ❤️

Please make an instrument with Joth Hunt Planetshakers

was he wearing a wireless ear monitor? at 13:03,

After operating without an MD for so long, I think it would be more disruptive than beneficial at this point. I say this only because we have been running IEMs for the past 8 years. Anything that an MD may interject during a service, we cover during our Mon. rehearsal. We then do an early AM run through Sunday before service and we're ready to go. I'm just not sure what an MD would add to our Worship music. If you started out that way, I could understand the benefit.

Jake, what drum shield are they using!!?? The circle ones??

So do you Romando have another 9-5 job outside of this ? Because I’m the band leader for my newly established church, and I have a 9-5 Monday - Friday job, with 2 kids and another on the way... and this looks like it must take up a lot of time to prepare. I struggle to practise my instrument more than 2 hours each night after work because my kids always want my attention when I get home. We have band practise twice a week for about 3-4 hours each. I have ableton lite atm which I got with my new midi keyboard but I don’t have MacBook yet to run it on... so I’m on the hunt for one. I also noticed you do your ableton set up on a desktop rather than a laptop... does that mean you can set up your whole program and then transfer it to your MacBook/iPad and take that with you to church ? Cos I would prefer to create my ableton session on a desktop (bigger screen). Thank you so much for this upload. And sorry for the long essay lol. Cheers. How much time a day do you spend prepping all this in ableton, band app etc ?

Bro you should have a skillshare profile 😕

2:50 is that JARED DINES??

Hello I’m currently the worship leader at our small but growing church, while having to MD the band. How ideal is it to do both? Can it be possible? Any recommendations? I once had two mics, one for talkback and the other to lead, but found it a little confusing to go back and forth! However, this video did help in terms of the MD tasks etc. Thank you and would love a response!

Gotta talk about the "Panic Mic" for people leading and directing (yes it can be done lol)

Does the md in church work full time?

Put subtitles in Portuguese, please

What about the spiritual side of being an MD

a bad sound can be very distracting to the congregation and we want to honor God with our gifts and talents, its our service unto Him to be excellent. To submit to an MD even if you are the "more experienced/skilled" player is also a lesson on humility. It kills pride in the flesh, and you learn to submit. Lastly, we audition members because we want to set them up for success. imagine if you completely sucked at guitar, but led worship anyway? you would be in a very embarrassing situation. and end up hating worship, hating people and hating church. If you are lower in skill, serve in a safer environment such as small groups, where the risk is lower, you dont stress yourself to perform. If I put a poor guitarist up on stage i'd be a poor leader who doesnt know how to take care of his congregation.

How would u treat a player that is disabled with a neurological disease like M.S. were time could be an issue ,who has been playing 20 years in 3 churches ,would like say you have be attending for 6 months to a year before you can play , some problems can change greatly in that time .Truthful answer cause the question was .It happened to me twice ..At this point been playing bass 41 years with no clic tracs and a head/cab in repectful volume ...And everynody has a horror story about amps but if ee are submitted to God there should not be any problems with any of this !

The MD using a Shure Beta 87 - a £350/$500 microphone - very N.America evangelical church…

Hummm!!! That's serious man!

He needs a wireless headset

Charlie puth or church....very hard decision,LOL

Why does worship need a musical director? Just worship God. So many mega churches so damn focused on the production and attracting new people just so they can take their tithe money. God doesn’t care how you sound right? If no one worships the rocks will cry out in worship. It was never like his before. It’s juts a production to wolves.