Dreams and visions are best attained when we have clearly defined goals. One preacher I used to work with put it like this: "If you don't have any direction or plan for your life, any road will take you there."
Here is a plan to expand the songs / progressions you can play. As you enact this plan, know that it is Biblical to expect increase, for the Bible says in the Book of Isaiah to lengthen your boarders and strengthen your stakes, for you will break forward on the right and on the left.
But as we know, music is work. Hard work. Without a vision and goals, it is possible to wander around for years, frustrated and confused.
Frustration is greatly reduced when you go at it with a clear plan on how to succeed.
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Start with prayer. Tell GOD that you love HIM for saving you, for bringing you to where you are now. Tell GOD that you want to do even better, so that people can be blessed, healed and delivered through the ministry of music; and music preparing GOD's people for The WORD.
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Get it together; get organized. Write down the progressions / songs you can play now comfortably, and what key they are in.
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Now transpose those songs / progressions into at least two other keys. Write them down so you can practice them.
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Expand yourself by learning new songs. Listen to praise and worship songs, choir songs, listen to how others accompany a soloist.
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If you don't know how to read music, LEARN. When you can read music, you can learn from any one of the several hundred musicians that left works for you to study. Don't limit yourself.
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Carry a spiral notebook and a pen with you when you travel and hear other musicians. Just throw it in your keyboard case or breifcase. If they will show you what they are playing, write it down. If there are songs someone else is singing that minister to your spirit or the people you are traveling with, write them down.
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Have goals. Set yourself to learn, for instance, two new songs every month. That is very attainable, and in a year you will have increased your playlist by twenty-five songs.
These are suggestions; tailor them to meet your own needs, schedule and the needs of your church / ministry. But it is best to write those goals down and check yourself on them every week. Have you kept those goals from week to week?
As the Bible says in the Book of Habbakuk, "Write the vision, make it plain on tablets, so he that readeth it may run."
When your visions are from GOD and they are clear, they will show you how you need to run.
Be Blessed, everyone
