Dear Church Musician: Stop Limiting Yourself

A Varied Musical Diet

But hear me out: if your only musical diet is worship music, you will limit your development. There is a vast world of musicality, genre, tone, and sound to develop. There are chord progressions that have yet to be heard. There are new sounds to be created but we need you to develop yourself to make the creative connections others fail to see.

You are unique and when you sit at the piano something different happens that doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world. When you stand behind a mic with your guitar, something special happens. Copying is a great way to learn but a frustrating end to your musical story.

Study jazz, classical, and iconic riffs from music history. Immerse yourself in chord progressions beyond the I IV vi V. It’s amazing if all you do is play worship music for the rest of your life. Nothing wrong with that. But learning different styles will influence your worship music in refreshing ways.

Be a tenacious, curious, self-learner who never settles or arrives.

What do you think? I’d love to hear from you musicians about this.

How do you keep yourself from settling and staying the same? How do you develop? Let us know in the comments!

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