HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Worship Matters with Bob Kauflin

'Despite the fact I've never met him, Bob Kauflin has played a more significant role than any other single individual in helping develop my understanding and practice of leading worship.' (Al Hamill) Bob is thoroughly biblical, clear and insightful, full of practical advice and wonderfully centred on the true Object of our worship. His blog contains his writings on a very diverse range of topics related to worship. This is a great place to start if you're serious about growing in your gifting in worship leading.Click here.

Sovereign Grace Worship Resources

This is one of the biggest selections of free mp3s teachings on the widest variety of aspects of worship, produced by the church that Bob Kauflin is associated with. From the most practical issues - including instrument masterclasses and running effective band practices - through to the most foundational theological training on the character of the God we worship, with a vast array of subjects in between. The material is deeply Biblical, balanced and very helpful for anyone involved in playing music for worship. Jump into this site, delve deep and you'll be richly rewarded. Click here

Worship Central with Tim Hughes

This site is run by Tim Hughes, composer of 'Happy Day' and 'Here I am to worship', and has a variety of multi-media training resources and acoustic versions of many of Tim's most famous songs for free download. The best feature is the highly entertaining monthy podcast show - humourous yet informative, it's well worth a listen. Click here

Worship Together

This is a regularly updated site that showcases the best in new music for worship. Along with articles and Bible studies written by a variety of contributors, you can listen to the new songs jukebox, download free featured sheet music and have access to a song database. In addition to all this, there is the New Song Cafe, with interviews and acoustic demos of songs by well-known artists including Tim Hughes, Chris Tomlin and many others. Click here

TAKING IT DEEPER

SBTS Institute for Christian Worship

This Faculty is part of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and they have an online database of mp3 teachings from a range of academics and practitioners of worship. For thsoe wanting to take their study of worship to a deeper level, this is a good range of resource material. Click here

Calvin Institue of Christian worship

Here you'll have access to another very wide ranging set of resources - written and audio - on issues related to worship. Plenty to keep you usefully occpied for many hours of fruitful study. Click here

Inside Worship

A collection of resources put together by the Vineyard Church. A combination of written articles and multimedia content covers a wide range of worship-related issues. Click here

PRACTICAL HELP

Kingsway Songs

An online data base of song lyrics. Search by title, author or topic to get free access to lyrics and, for a small cost, pdfs of sheet music for a very wide selection of the most popular songs for worship. Click here

Worship Frequency with Chris Tomlin

This site gives you access to support resources produced by Chris Tomlin. Along with articles and chord charts for his songs, the feature you'll probably enjoy most are the video tutorials, teaching you how to play many of the best-loved Tomlin classics. 'Daniel's Guitar World' gives plenty of tips for electric guitarists on how to play and get the sounds for many of Tomlin's songs. Click here

North Point Music

This church in USA has produced a collection of very useful practical resouces for bands and musicians, including tutorial videos for a variety of instruments. Individual membership - allowing full access to all the resoucres on the site - is available for $35 per year. Click here

Berklee Shares

Access to a range of free multi-media music training resources offered by the Berklee school of music. Instruments covered include: bass, brass, turntable, drums, guitar, keys, voice and woodwind. In addition, there are resources for production and technology, songwriting and arranging, and aspects of the music business. Click here

Automatic chord transposing

If you have a set of chords in Word or pdf format and want to change them into a more suitable key for your voice, you will find the following site invaluable. Simply copy and paste the chords (and lyrics), select the new key you want, hit one button and watch the chords and lyrics appear in your new key. Click here.

OTHER SITES OF INTEREST

Live

The annual celebration of life and the creative arts organised by Richard Crowe and Derek Browne. It features artists from Glenabbey and beyond in a two day mini-festival of music, arts, food and fun for all the family. More details of this year's event in September can be found at the Live website.

Getty Music

The website for Keith & Kristyn Getty's hymn writing ministry. The site keeps you up to date with the latest news on the Gettys as well as giving access to song lyrics, interviews and the stories behind some of the Getty's most loved songs. Click here