After writing the article “Legally Singing Music in Your Church” , I went back to the CCLI website to explore the updates that they have made. I must say I was quite surprised to see some of the things that are truly helpful and such a blessing!
As a member of CCLI, you also have [...]
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This is a quote form a popular music learning website for church musicians:
If your church sings songs that someone else recorded and you are not paying royalties via CCLI, you are a thief and a robber.
You can not legally display the words in public nor perform music without paying royalties.
You really can’t even show videos [...]
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As church musicians we are not hirelings. I mean we should not play for a check or for gas money. We should know that we minister to souls, and we answer to God. Do you have a Minister of Music over you? If you do then you need to make sure that you [...]
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Last night as I was playing the keyboard, I stumbled upon a few chords that sounded like “Conjunction Junction” from School House Rock. I kept it up and finally came up with a decent sounding rendition of this song and it was fun! I believe that you need to make sure that you [...]
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Wow, I have had quite an adventure lately to say the least. I am so happy to be back to my blog now I can’t decide where to begin. I will be adding another lesson on music theory this week, so come back and have fun learning the basics of playing music.
Practicing [...]
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