What is up with my choir and these hard songs???

[Fenix]

ok, U said U've been doing a new song each time for over 8 weeks..!!! Man U should sit down with the choir & spell out what you guys want to achieve.
It's all good that you are being exposed to all these new (difficult--yikes!!) songs, but you've got to have some songs/ style that your audience can identify you by..This is particularly important if you plan to go on & record.

I believe that you also need to get a feel of some songs..even if you repeat every 3rd week..By so doing you also get to master some songs / familiarize yourselves with them..

At the rate you are going, you might be invited to a function where they expect you to perform, say 4 or 5 songs, given short notice , & you'll struggle to learn/ revise all the 5 songs in the given time & underperform.

Maybe this is 1 way you convince your choir to slow things down a bit.

Another suggestion you could throw at them is that you guys actually alternate between easy & difficult songs..
You could also do easy songs but do them better than the recording...
For an example of that, you only have to view my post on youtube..simple but the people love it so much..I've had to translate that song for some guys from France &..all over really! But there's nothing fancy in that song..it's just how everything is mixed up together & it feels good. (explain this to them Fen..)

Man everything you have said just makes perfect sense. The problem is i am just the lowly keyboard player and have almost no input. We have not even had time to absorb the songs before we are given a new song to learn. So what happens is we patch together something and then move on. It really is not helping us IMO. Plus frankly i am tired of learning a new difficult song every week.

[T-Block]

Man everything you have said just makes perfect sense. The problem is i am just the lowly keyboard player and have almost no input. We have not even had time to absorb the songs before we are given a new song to learn. So what happens is we patch together something and then move on. It really is not helping us IMO. Plus frankly i am tired of learning a new difficult song every week.

Man, I feel u on that.  When I first started learning, the church came to me with all kinds of songs they wanted me to learn.  I just had to put my foot down and say "Look, I'm not able to play that at this time, yall need to chill."  It would be a different story if the tables were turned and people were looking at them to play all these songs.

Non-musicians need to step in our shoes for a while and see what we go through, especially beginners & others who don't feel they are at a good level yet.

[musallio]

Man, I feel u on that.  When I first started learning, the church came to me with all kinds of songs they wanted me to learn.  I just had to put my foot down and say "Look, I'm not able to play that at this time, yall need to chill."  It would be a different story if the tables were turned and people were looking at them to play all these songs.

Non-musicians need to step in our shoes for a while and see what we go through, especially beginners & others who don't feel they are at a good level yet.

*going up & down in his chair*

Amen!!!
Preach it like it is pastor

Wow, after a decade in the seat you still remember what us beginners go thru...must have had a rough ride..pooa guy.

[T-Block]

*going up & down in his chair*

Amen!!!
Preach it like it is pastor

Wow, after a decade in the seat you still remember what us beginners go thru...must have had a rough ride..pooa guy.

Man, I never forget where I come from.  Plus, in some ways I still consider myself a beginner .

[Fenix]

I think i just may put my foot down too. It's like i said before, its not that these songs are SO very difficult, its that there is so much going on that its really hard to pin it down in the space of about 3 days. Ain't happening man.