Five Technical Pointers
When you can't hear your voice from a monitor, it’s really easy to go slightly out of tune without noticing. It also causes you to sing louder and strain more as you don’t have an accurate reflection of how your voice sounds.


When you can't hear your voice from a monitor, it’s really easy to go slightly out of tune without noticing. It also causes you to sing louder and strain more as you don’t have an accurate reflection of how your voice sounds.

Practice is certainly important. However, we mustn’t let that crowd out the joy of simply sitting down and playing...

The key really is being as prepared as you can for what might be the worst outcome. However, there are also certain things you just can’t anticipate, and in those situations it’s best to stay calm, do what you can, and keep the mood light.

...I was leading worship, and my music wasn’t in a folder. There were ceiling fans in the building, and just as I was about to play the music on the right-hand side of my music stand, it blew off onto the floor. I didn’t know the song that well, and so I just had to stop playing mid-song until we got to the end.