MD Moments: Calling Chords During the Welcome and Communion
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- LJ Mitchell, Music Director for Elevation Worship and Elevation Church calling chords during the welcome and Communion. Recorded live at Elevation Church.
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!! Any musicians want a nice fun challenge! Stop this video BEFORE you watch the whole thing (if it's not too late) and pick up your instrument and see if you can follow LJ without having listened to the video first. Just see if you can keep up with that elevation pace! I try to do that every time I see an elevation resource MD video come up. It's great practice! So much more fun when you genuinely don't know what he's gonna call. LJ is so dope! 👍
such a cool idea! encouraged to know these videos and resources are helpful to you
Just tried this out, definitely a good exercise of staying limber across different keys, which is something I don’t think too many churches in the non-denominational realm contend with on a Sunday to Sunday basis. Really great concept, would love to have challenges put out for flow moments
Yall should do a full worship set from the MDs perspective, would be super cool. Love yall!
we're working on that idea currently!
@@ElevationWorshipResources YES PLSSSS!!!
What is MD?
@@aarontoalet Music Director
@@elishageorgevlogs9971 thanks
LJ is in a league of his own! Keep the content coming!
Keep the MD CAMS GOING ONNNN!!!!
People don’t realize both how impressive it is to call this real time, change keys, flip back to another key, call numbers, all while playing your own instrument. Props to whoever is on keys too!! Geeeez!!!
Can y’all please give us a video of LJ breaking down his thought process/walks you can use during these kind of situations? I would love to see that! God bless!
I second this!
he basically hears it in his head and he says it out. its pretty fun
We need a series of this...Lets gooo
should we?
@@ElevationWorshipResources YESSSS
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Absolutely. As an MD in my church, these are the best videos that I wait for every year
When we gonna get LJ to make his own channel and do more MD cams 😂
That is so insanly cool. Much respect to LJ and the Elevation Band.
Love the MD videos! So cool to see the behind the scenes per se
LJ the goat 🐐🐐🐐
Let LJ cook !!! 🔥
Seamless. Amazing. So smooth and quick with call outs and team transitions. Thanks for sharing this insight into the ‘inner workings’ of making these moments special.
Peak Elevation content! Thank you so much!
dude is UNREAL
The skill is amazing!
Very cool to see this. As a musically challenged but learning person I have a greater respect (more than I already had) for the amount of thought that goes into a worship experience like this. Very impressive.
Worship service*
We need more MD cams this is inspirational for many
We love this type of content!!
WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS 😢❤
I recently became the main MD at our small church and only have a couple months of experience. I'm desperate to grow as much as I can. Any chance we could have a video about what your MD fundamentals and your communication styles are. PLEASE PLEASE!!!
Biggest fundamentals I would say that should apply to any church for MDs is
1. Know your Parts
2. Know your band members parts
3. Have a strong base of music theory
4. Communication and delivery is key
5. Always be alert, and observant to the team around you and the congregation, especially in flow moments.
:)
Wow this is awesome y’all should do a full video on this!
Amazing!!!
More MD cams please !
Could we please get more of the instruments in the mix? I would love to hear what’s going on, but it’s hard to hear the changes over the click.
Great start in the musician world for 2025🎉🎉!
What was LJ and Scotty talking about when LJ said "Latch me in C"
dudes goat
How do you get the transition speaker to follow the click? 😝
this video is super helpful... What would be the reason to change between keys and timing signatures? Im currently new to MDing and i would just like to see if i could apply this at our church.
@@tevinarriah8016 from what I know, finding a spot either behind a pastor or host to change to a key or a new time sig. is helpful because it allows for the next song to flow perfectly well into it. So let’s say I finished goodness of god in the key of A in 4/4 and I’m playing that progression behind the pastor. I can find a place where I can hold a chord like the 1 or 4, then if the next song is in 6/8, and in D, I can use that time to switch to that so that once the pastor/host is done, that transition is smooth. Plus, no one is focusing as much on the music during a speaking moment much
You think you know how to play until you play with people that play play and that can play while hearing the numbers, the person playing piano with the embellishments while changing key centers was just brilliant.
BTW, I see LJ changed to playing something else at 5:32, is he playing a different keyboard or something?
Does the band have any idea what chords LJ might call (and potential key changes) before this or are they hearing his calls for the first time?
this is all them hearing them for the first time. a lot of the heart behind what our MD’s aim to do is to serve the moment and serve our pastors on stage and that often looks like calling progressions that feel right for the tone of the what’s being said. it’s usually
not something we discuss going into those moments and we’ll all just follow the MD where he feels led to take things :)
Question - as a guitarist, I don't see how it's possible to play any chord with changes that quickly - assuming whomever is playing guitar is merely hitting the root (or a chord tone) of each chord he's calling out?
I always play full chords. Unless it’s a key change then I’ll find some common notes to bridge the two. The key is to stay within a box of 5 or so frets. Not traveling up the fretboard rather up the strings.
For instance, having a capo on the first fret would let me play Bb (A shapes) > C# (C shapes) > Eb (D shapes) to accomplish those key changes with more full chords with open notes. The CAGED system is the best way of looking at that
The vocals hear this on their IEM??
can anyone tell me “latch me in C” means?
What does up mean when LJ calls it?
In this context, he was likely wanting the band to keep the energy up to support the host and the moment
@ that’s awesome! There was another Md video I saw from LJ in the past and when he said up, they went to another chord. So idk if he meant going up to the next chord or not.
right! it's situational for sure.
One semitone up
I was thinking it meant go up in half steps
Too much distraction. No room for focus on service and worship 😒 but like furtick sais, you do you lol