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During the week rehearsal actions

1. Pre-Rehearsal (these actions occur prior to the team arriving)

  • Retrieve and lay out singer microphones and in-ear packs
  • Check batteries
  • Plug in bar stage lights on back of stage
  • Turn on receiver for speaker on stage
  • Turn on all equipment in the AVL booth
    • sound board
    • receivers under the sound board
    • all computers
    • cameras
    • TVs on stage and confidence monitor in back
    • house and stage lights

2. Pre-rehearsal actions once team has arrived

  • Gather the team for a short prayer
  • Review song selections just for clarity with the team and AVL booth, in particular the person operating pro-presenter
  • Review who is singing each song. Weekly rehearsals and Sundays are to be the the same. If someone is not singing on Sunday, they do not participate in the weekly rehearsal  
  • TAKE THE PLATFORM - Identify who is standing where. (platform placement)

3. Rehearsal order

1. Warm up while on the platform
  • tune instruments
  • adjust in-ears with soundboard / sound person
  • adjust in-house mix

2. AVL warm-up
  • AVL prep to run lyrics and get music sequence
  • AVL prep to practice pre-roll to 1st song transition
  • Play the announcement video to make sure it works and volumes set correctly
  • Turn on all lights and camera to make sure everything working properly. Make adjustments as needed.  
  • Ensure confidence monitor and stage TVs are in sync for the pre-roll

3. Practice first song

4. DRUMMER - PRACTICE THE PRE-ROLL TO 1ST SONG TRANSITION
  • Talk through with the drummer how to transition from the pre-roll to the 1st song
  • Practice transitioning from the pre-roll to the 1st song. PERCUSSION ALWAYS STARTS THE FIRST SONG. THIS MUST BE NAILED BY THE DRUMMER. DRUMMER SETS THE TEMPO.  Once this is achieved,

5. ENTIRE TEAM - PRACTICE THE PRE-ROLL TO 1ST SONG TRANSITION
  • Practice when and how the team is going to come out, worship team body movement and engaging / bringing the congregation into worship
  • AVL - practice the light transitions from pre-roll to 1st song
    • reduce house lights
    • bring on can lights
    • have lyrics ready

6. Worship team rehearses the songs
  • make adjustments as needed
  • identify and practice the transitions between the songs

7. Conduct quick AAR and identify any other actions that need to happen before Sunday and dismiss team

8. If anyone (vocalists) need to stay a moment to work on anything without the rest of the team, hang back.  

4. Turn off all equipment.