I sat down a few weeks ago, once again, to try to dig up some new club songs. Then it hit me. Why am I doing this? I realized that YL recently chose the most talented people to pick songs for clubs. These people were at YL camps last summer […]
Music
One of the keys to a smooth club is to control the down time, this is the time before club, in the transitions between the parts of club, and after club. People simply stay more in tune with what is going on when something is happening either visually or audibly. […]
Great stuff keeps coming from Eric! If you haven’t seen his earlier post, you should check it out now. Below is a great resource for training and explaining how to do music in club. It could even be an outline for a seminar if you needed to lead one. Thanks […]
Recently I posted some resources for club music. One of the resources was from Eric Hoskins, Area Director in Sarasota, FL. He was nice enough to write up some great thoughts about club music and I wanted to share them with you all! — When I joined the Young Life […]
This is a great idea. Ali commented on my earlier post regarding sharing songs for club to sing, and for background music on Spotify with an idea of his own. Ali is a Work Crew boss this summer at YL camp. I’ve had the privilege of being a Work Crew […]
For months I have been using the free version of Spotify and love it. If you don’t know what Spotify is then you should just check it out yourself, but more or less the free version gives you access to over 15 million songs while you have wifi access. They […]
Over the summer I normally try to post a couple things that I learned over the previous school year. If you have anything you learned from last year that you would like to tell me about, send it my way smcgever (at) pv dot younglife dot org In our club, […]
Looking to spice-up music in club? Try using a Cajon. It is a drum type thing. You hit it in the middle and it makes a loud and strong bass sound. If you hit it near the top it make a snare sound, like a snare drum (it actually has […]
Maybe we should have turntables at club..? Here are my reasons: COOL – They are cool. INTRIGUE – Most kids have never seen one but hear it everyday. RETHINK – It will help us rethink the kind of music we do in club (wisdom needed since much of hip hop […]