Chords for Creating an Atmosphere for Worship on Keyboard | Worship Band Workshop

_ _ _ _ A lot of the ways I use Kiko, I mean, he creates an atmosphere.
You know, what we're trying to do as worship leaders is we're trying to create an atmosphere
that allows us to have a conversation with God, I mean, a dialogue with God.
And part of that is setting the right tone and the right atmosphere.
And it's not about manipulation, it's just about trying to set the right tone.
And you'll hear Kiko, like for instance on the end of that song, you know, let's just
say we ended in [C] the key of F, thank [F] you Lord.
_ And if I wanted to go into a moment, Lord, we thank you for your goodness, for your mercy, _ _
thank you for your love, for being with us here today. _ _
We give you thanks and we give you praise.
[C] _ _
So you hear what Kiko's doing.
He's just kind of there [F] setting this atmosphere of worship. _ _
_ And he's listening to what I'm saying.
Talk about you pray as you play, it's just that approach.
Yeah, _ it's a beautiful thing.
And in a lot of genres of music, you know, you just play the music.
In worship and in church, we [E] get this wonderful opportunity to kind of lift up the name of
Jesus and to even pray things into the atmosphere, even through our instruments.
And I think that's so awesome.
And sometimes I could even take that for granted that we're given that opportunity.
And a lot of times when a pastor is preaching or a worship leader is speaking, sometimes
keyboard players take that time to kind of go crazy. _ _
And it's not meant for that.
You know, a lot of times if you just sit back and you think from a person that's in the
audience, you can see, you know, this person is praying.
So anything anyone on stage is doing should be contributing to what that person is doing
and what's being highlighted in that moment.
[G] So if Don's praying, then I want to pray along with him.
And if he's praying for peace, then I don't want to be rambunctious and play, you know,
really busy things.
I kind of want to be very, very [F] subtle, you know, and do that, you know.
And if he starts praying for the power of God to fall on the place, then yeah, then
you can start, [F] you know, kind of, you know, go there a little bit, you know, maybe add some strings.
And it's not manipulation.
You're actually getting a chance to participate in the prayer of the person that's praying.
This can be really helpful or can be really aggravating if a keyboard [Dm] player is not sensitive.
For instance, like [G] on the song, Thank You, Lord, I May Start, [Dm] you know, the Bible says
to enter His gates with what?
Thanksgiving and His courts with praise.
So it would be very natural [G] for me to just say, Lord, we thank you today _ [F] in advance for
all that you're going to do.
We love you, Lord. _ _ _
Thank you for your goodness.
Thank you for your mercy.
_ That'd be very natural for me to do that.
But you know, Kiko could take control of that prayer and make it all about himself.
Like Lord, thank you [Dm] for this moment.
[F] Thank you for your [Bb] presence in this [F] place.
_ _ _ And now I'm distracted as [A] I'm playing because [Db] _ my ears [Ebm] are going over there and [Eb] I was trying
to give the Lord thanks.
[E] _
[G] And all of you in the audience are also [Dm] looking over at Kiko.
[Cm] And suddenly he has made this tender little moment about him.
And [F] Kiko, it's not about you. _
_ _ So, well, you know, we make examples like that, but it's sad, but it's true.
People do that and it's like, wow, I have a moment.
I'm going to do everything I can do.
And if the moment becomes about you, I mean, if your pastor is praying and suddenly your
keyboard player is all over the [Bb] place, it suddenly became about your keyboard player.
And I think you've totally missed it at that point. _ _ _ _ _