Are we responsible for music literacy in the church?

by Kyle on November 3, 2007 in worship

Great blog post from Bob Kauflin at Worship Matters blog. It discusses the responsibility of the worship team to value and instruct their musicians in “traditional” music training and theory. This is something we’ve discussed as it relates to songwriting and operating in excellence in our craft. I would add that too often in the church are songs written or played out of constraint of ability and ignorance of theory or method. Of course we’re all constrained by our ability, but traditionally the bar is set pretty low in the church. Is the simple chord progression and melody an intentional writing technique or a consequence of our lack of devotion and commitment to music. Too often it’s the latter.