Contemporary Ensemble

    Reportoire:

• Primarily focused on praise choruses written within the last 5-10 years
• Occasional new arrangements of older songs
  

    Composition:

• Consists of multiple singers, and various combinations of piano, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, auxiliary percussion, and horns
  

    Skills Needed:

• Vocalists should be able to:
• Comfortably read or invent harmonies
• Sing from lead sheets (melody line), chord sheets (words and chords), or hymn sheets (SATB)
• Blend and balance with other singers
  
• Sing while clapping, stomping, bobbing, or using an auxiliary percussion instrument
• Instrumentalists should be able to:
• Play from lead sheets or chord sheets (see above for descriptions of each)
• Blend and balance with other musicians
• Both vocalists and instrumentalists should be able to:
• Quickly learn new songs and/or parts with sheet music and/or an audio recording
• Express genuine* engagement in worship
• Be flexible to change as the Spirit leads