Re: [Worship] Hand signals FROM Does well-rehearsed mean unspiritual?

["Joy Khoo" <joy_in_the_soi@yahoo.com>]

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"Cindy Wessel" <clwessel@holycross-church.org> wrote:

> I don't ask the musicians to watch me all the time, so they
> sometimes miss hand signals. I suppose you train the musicians
> to check in occasionally at the end of sections of a song??
> How do you handle this?

Hi Cindy! As in my other post, I generally get another vocalist to double my
hand signals (if the problem is line-of-sight), and those who are able to
pass on signals try to do so (most often the keyboardist who sits in full
view of the rest of the band). I *do* ask musicians to remain sharp and
aware of each other and to look up as much as possible.

The most effective thing I find is to simply back up the signal with a vocal
instruction or cue, be it singing the first few words of the lyric, singing
a lick that suggests it, or simply speaking the next few words of the lyric,
or even "c'mon, verse two!".

-joy