2007-09-28 MK Worship Band Practice

Hi Band,

 

As usual we will be having practice tommorow from 2-4 PM in the AC on center.

 

The J.V. Band (and all new members) will be watching 1 or 2 Episodes  of the Seminar for the Performing Artist videos by Tom Jackson that we (Varisty Band) have already watched.

 

This will give the varisty band to do some planning for some of our upcoming worship nights, fundraisers, etc.

 

Here's what I'm thinking the various positions could try and accomplish tommorow.

 

Calendar Coordinator/Set Planner

-Orientation to the Google Calendar (This can be used to plan our calendar ahead, with the benefit that we can all have access to it. I can give the orientation.

-November 26th possible date for Monday night whee Worship band leads/plans the entire night.

- Discuss Worship plan for upcoming evangelistic night

- Determine set plan for Monday.

 

Equipment Manager

- Connect with Fundraiser about what equipment is needed, make a list together, set deadline to submit to Bob for Apporval.

- Work on Equipment Guidelines. (This is especially needful for training and equiping the J.V Band members)

- Work on "Pit-Stop" setup/tear down plan.

- Begin investigating the possibility of using both sound systems

- Discuss whether current stage arrangement needs to be modified.

 

Fundraiser

- Lead the discussion about planning for an upcoming fundraiser.

- Work with Set planner/ Calendar Coordinator on set plan for Monday

 

Technical Director

-Discuss maintenance of the e-mail distribution list with Jason.

-Investigate using the Google e-mail address (DallasMkBand@gmail.com) for sending out updates.

- Discuss with Jason plan for weekly anouncements.

-Discuss Blog with Jason. (Topics to cover RSS Feeds, Links band members social networking site, blog layout, further discussion on content.)

- Discuss potential new strategy for powerpoints (Use google documents instead of powerpoint?)

- Discuss Potential use for the Thumb Drive, (Transporting Powerpoints, running Open Office from Thumb drive for creating powerpoints thereby ensuring consistency in layout, file types, etc)

 

Secretary

- After discussions above, get reports from other band members, in order to concisely summarize decisions/plans that have been made. (For later posting a summary to the blog.)

- Begin Brainstorming a procedure/standards for adding new music to the repoitoire ( i.e.approval by the Music Manager, minimum # of copies, Minimum font size, etc.)

 

Questions or comments let know,

 

Jason

 

We can do Powerpoints on the Google Docs site.

FYI Gang,

I've been uploading some of our old lyric powerpoints from my computer to our google documents site (docs.google.com) and I'm pleased to say they seem to be uploading and retaining the format and backgrounds and everything.

I made a new folder called Powerpoint where I'm putting them all.

It looks like we'll even be able to view the slideshows from the website itself.

Ok so I'm a geek, but this is exciting...!

Summary of Practice on Sep. 8, 2007

Below are the excellent notes recorded by our Band secretary, Jephthah

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Attendance: Jason, Ned, Collin, Daniel, Randi, Emmanuel, myself (Jephthah)
Guest: Luke MacLean

 

Shortly after 2:00 we watched the video clips Mark MacLean recorded of our practice at Sky Ranch. We then discussed band jobs, originally creating six. After brainstorming and choosing tasks assigned to each job, we did away with the sixth job, which had only one task. This task, creating PowerPoints, was consolidated into the secretarial position.

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Technical Director- Daniel

Maintains the website/blog and Google documents
Determines PowerPoint operator
Working with soundman, connects audio/video equipment
Is contacted when speaker(/guest) has audio or video needs
Receives emails to be sent and blogs to be posted

The Technical Director will send all band emails. Jason will "report" to Daniel with information regarding band practice and Monday nights.


Equipment Manager- Ned

Organizes equipment storage
Plots stage (band member, equipment places)
Maintains equipment (repairing, determining if new equipment is needed)
Organizes setting up and tearing down of equipment


Treasurer- Randi

Coordinates with Bob for funds
Organizes fundraisers (meets with Calendar Coordinator)
Purchases equipment (meets with Equipment Manager)
(includes researching prices)
Organizes and tracks funds (keeps records of purchases and funds received)


Calendar Coordinator- Tess?

Plans music sets
Chooses worship themes and special events
Works with:
 leaders (coordinate with speakers and make announcements)
 Treasurer (schedules fundraisers)
 Rest of band (notifies regarding themes, special events)

The Calendar Coordinator needs every band member's email address (even though emails are first sent to Daniel?) and perhaps everyone's phone number.


Secretary- myself (Jephthah)

Responsible for:
 PowerPoints (may receive help from others)
 Web Pages (sends emails, blogs to Technical Director)
 Organizing music
Keeps records of meetings


These positions are flexible, and more may be created as the need arises. Not everyone will have a job assigned to them; some tasks may be shared, and some positions may be jointly run.
Tess needs to decide whether she will be the Calendar Coordinator. If not, someone else who did not attend this practice may want to volunteer.

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After assigning jobs, we discussed the tryouts, which are approaching Monday. Jason suggested that if a junior high band was formed, it could meet in another room or even another home each Saturday. However, so far no one has volunteered to lead them in separate practice. (another position?) The simultaneous use of the MK band soundboard and the Activity Center soundboard was also considered.

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This is a summary of the September 8 MK band practice, held at Jason's house. Please send comments and/or questions to Daniel, the Technical Director.

                                                    Jephthah Goring, Secretary

It's so Complicating!!!!!!!!!

Oh. i get it now. ok, well that was.....hard. yeah. i agree.....COLOR is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I take it i've been volenteered to play color. OKAY!! You don't have to ask me twice, color makes me happy.

I'm really sleepy.....and i have allusions to look up for English.
See you all at practice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RandiKandi

Good Question: What are we going to do with this blog?

I don't have a real specific plan for this blog, but I have all sorts of ideas of how it could be used. Keep in mind we don't HAVE to do any of these.

1. We could keep a public record of all the songs that we sing every week. We could invite people from the MK Group to give feedback in the comments section. Others from the MK Group might have suggestions for songs they want to sing, they might have feed back on a certain worship set from a recent Monday night.

2. We could record our worship set (or even our practice) each week using my computer and then post it as a recordng. Well actually the blogger site won't host the media files, but there is a website called www.archive.org that will allow you to host media files free, so we could put the mp3's on there and link to them on this blog.

3. If we wanted to rope some other MK's in the MK Group into helping us with setup and tear down (the part of our practice that is our least favorite) , we could have setup and teardown down instructions posted on the blog and invite people to come and help and we could even give them a title, like "equipment engineer" or something. (they would feel involved and we wouldn't have as much work to do! :))

4. I know some of us have personal blogs/xanga/myspace/facebook pages. We could list our personal blogs here as well, which would give us an opportunity to read about each others lives and maybe get to know each other better outside of the band context.

Here's some other blogs that have to do with Worship/Worship Leading. We could get ideas from stuff other people have done.

1. http://www.theworshipblog.com/
2. http://ucworship.wordpress.com/
3. http://www.lfmchurch.org/worship-blog/

So those are just some ideas, let me know what ya'll think.

Soundman checking in!

Hey! I found the post button!
I dunno what we're really going to do with this. But we could post things we need and such.

I Post! I Post!

Alright... so... this isn't really complicated... lucky for me!

What are we looking for as far as posts? Song suggestions? Lyrics to those songs? Suggestions technically and/or spiritually? A "This is my day and this is what I got out of it as far as worship" post? Or anything else?

Or all of it?

Anyway, I mostly did this so I could figure all this happiness out.

Is there any way to change the theme/colors? Black is cool and all, but it's kinda dark... and if there was a way to change it, we could let some of the girls at it.

Daniel

Worship Band blog

So we have a blog now! Let me encourage everyone to experiment with using this blog so that we can communicate more effectively. At the moment the blog is set so that it's publicaly viewable, so don't post anything you wouldn't want the whole world to be able to see! We can change this later if we only want the blog to be viewable by band members.

So go ahead and try posting and play around a little bit with the blog and see what you think.

Cheers!