Making your worship music sound less boring and monotonous

We often hear people commenting that the worship was very 'dry' and uninspiring. They say the anointing was not there or the Spirit was not moving.

Partly this is because of the monotonous and boring worship music the musicians played.

Here are the ways to make your worship music less boring.

1. Vary your musical styles.
• Do not play the same style for all the songs - stanzas and chorus
• Have different styles for each songs
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2. Modify your rhythm
• Have different rhythms for stanzas and chorus and bridge
• Modify your rhythm slightly after each stanza
• Do not play the same rhythm the next time the same song is sung again in other services
  
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3. Have solos
• People gets bored listening to singing all the time
• Let the musicians play some solo in songs
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4. Minimal chords more melodies, riffs , fills etc
• Chords are simple to play but dreadfully boring and unimaginative
• Play arpegios instead of block chords
5. Insert interesting intros and ending
   
6. Change keys
• A change of key in a song would make the song sounds refreshed.
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7. Change tempos
   
8. Build up and build down
• Do not put everything in at the first stanza
• Add and subtract after every stanza or chorus or song
  
• Your audience expects new things  as the music progresses not the same of thing
• Soft to loud, slow to fast etc
9. Give different musical instruments prominence at different times
   
10. Have climaxes
• Bring your songs to a climax and a close
  
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11. Play variations
• Vary your playing and rhythm after each stanza.
• Have an 'evolving' style
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12. Rubato Tempo to make music expressive and natural , not mechanical
    
• Do not sing or play like school boy or nursery rhymes-style
• Do not play lots of notes with same time values
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13. Put your emotions into your playing
• Do not be mechanical or robotic in your playing
• Use dynamics to express your emotion through music
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14. Insert surprises
• Surprise your audience with unexpected styles, rhythms or sounds
  
• Do not play too predictable music
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15. Let your audience's imagination work
• Let your audience's imagination participates in the music
• Do not play at the moment your audience expects you to play - let them hear your playing in their imagination
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16. Keep your music fresh with new ideas, direction , chords , keys , styles , solos etc. 
    
17. Sense the direction of the Holy Spirit