Avoid: Playing exactly the chord as written every time

by Micah Brooks | The Modern Worship Piano Professional

You may be moving chords when you don’t need to. A Bm7 is just a D with the bass note B. While this may be a matter of knowing inversions well, we don’t have to go that deep to become better players. Knowing that a Bm7 is a D with a B as your bass note is enough to...

Avoid playing root position all the time. Use inversions too!

by Micah Brooks | The Modern Worship Piano Professional

How professionals use inversions as well as root position chords There are three different ways to play every major and minor chord. Many pianists only learn the first way called root position. This is missing the mark. Learn how to use all three versions of each...

Avoid: Playing too much. Taking up too much space!

by Micah Brooks | The Modern Worship Piano Professional

Dive into how playing less will make you more of a professional musician. One of the quickest ways to play as a professional is knowing when and when not to play. The following ideas are designed to pinpoint how to do this well. The best part is that playing in the...

How To Play and Sing With a Click

by Micah Brooks | Worship Teams

Everyone can play with a click. It takes effort, but it’s doable! Whether you’ve tried to play with a metronome before and failed or this is the first time, but it seems too hard, you are in the right place. We’ll talk through the benefits, about how you won’t sound...

Have You Ever Heard Of A Flashdark?

by Micah Brooks | Devotions

To my knowledge, no one has ever invented a flashdark. No one has ever made a portable device that, when turned on, can suck the light out of a room. The reason is because darkness always runs from light. It’s a principle of physics. Darkness is actually the...