YLHelp’s aim is to provide resources for leaders to be in relationships. Relationships aren’t scalable, resources are. YLhelp exists to save leaders time so they can be with people. Perhaps nothing is more time-wasting than locating chord sheets and making PowerPoints/Keynotes for club. Do the math… Young Life has currently […]
Songs
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It is that time of year when many of us run to the internet to try to find new club songs. I was on that quest myself when I got an email that saved me loads of time. Musician and YL-music-rescue-man S.Martin contacted me and said, “Sean could you use […]
For our first club of the year we did “The Tonight Show Starring Pinnacle Young Life”. We were able to create a fun graphic to get the word out (S/O to Felipe Contreras!), did a few new songs, had a club kid learn the piano music to “thank you notes”, […]
I’m sure many of you out there are scrambling to put together you club plans. Well, this post should help save you some time! It is never a good idea to “wing” the music plan. I’ve led songs for a long, long time. I’ve led music while singing and playing […]
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, […]
I got this note from my friend Megan from Memphis, TN. “We are lucky enough to have a very talented guitar player at our club every week. However, if you aren’t that fortunate, I struck Karaoke gold. No worries. There are no "backup singers" and cheesy synthesizers. Instead, it’s just […]
One of the best ways to learn the lyrics to a song is to play it at an event at camp. You will inevitably have a young leader or student come up and say, “don’t you know what that song is about?!?!” On the other hand it is also helpful […]
One of our last clubs in the semester is our “best of” club. I look back at our songs, our mixers, our games, our skits and I put them on a poster. Then for a couple weeks I have kids vote on their favorite ones. Then I pick kids to […]
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 […]