Bodily Musical Exercise Profits

Sister Ivy said in yesterday's Praise meeting of how she and her family were drawn to a church because of the beautiful music they heard from the church. I also remembered what attracted me to The Fountain of Life Church, Illupeju, Lagos. It was not just the good music, but they literally had musical stars both in the choir and in the congregation. Some where formerly secular artists until God arrested them. The Holy Spirit so used their refined talents to bless my spirit and soul. On another note, I recall a not so good experience that made me feel in my thoughts "if I was an unbeliever at this time, and this is the best Christianity has or is allowed to offer in music, then you'd count me out". This time was when I was serving under a Pastor friend in his new ministry to debut his musical department around Apapa. There was a branch of a well known international charismatic church (name withheld) that was sharing fence with our church. That we were always intimidated with their extremely loud speakers was not too big an issue. But that the praise leader will be so comfortable singing a semitone off the piano, and the bassist excited to play parallel to the keyboardist, and no one in the congregation would feel less spiritual singing off the two major vocal instruments for about 30 minutes, was the weirdest form of unity in diversity I have ever seen to date. And this is not an exaggeration because it was a routine that went on for over 2 years of our staying around the area. In order to prevent such things from ever occurring in our church, we began a fresh audition of our praise team members and it was an exciting experience yesterday. We took some exercises geared at locating our vocal range so we can know which part we fit in most and develop ourselves there. Furthermore, we are locating our individual best keys in line with the set of songs we are to minister per time. Everyone was exited about this and I thought this could be helpful in profiting in our singing ministry, not excluding the spiritual exercise as well.

Audition is not only done when you want to enter a group. Just as sports people test, practice and warm up always and medical people recommend you go for a check up at least twice a year whether sick or not, audition should be done regularly at intervals to determine your vocal progress and other aspects of your music ministry. The links below are recommended for you to set up your personal and group audition.

http://www.vocalist.org.uk/vocal_range_key.html
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