A - Part One - God's Requirements for the Worship Team (4 hours)

Topics

1. The importance of the Worship ministry
2. The power and evaluation of music
3. The 10 requirements for the Worship team
4. The flow of the Holy Spirit in a Worship service.

1. The forms of Worship
2. Choosing a style for your Worship service
3. Planning your songs
4. Practical points on Worship leading

1. 20 checklists for songwriters

2. 12 Practical points for songwriters

3. Writing lyrics

4. Creating melodies

n every revival, original songs are birthed because songwriters write about the things that God is doing in their churches. Unfortunately, many musicians and lyric writers are not trained to write songs. This section of the seminar is primarily for musicians and lyric writers who desire to learn how to write songs and improve their songwriting skills. You will be amazed that many have the ability to write but are not are doing it.

Place of Seminars

These Seminars are usually conducted in churches or Bible Schools. To host a seminar, please contact Ng Wah Lok at ngwahlok@yahoo.com . To see where Ng Wah Lok is teaching, go to Wah Lok’s music calendar.

Cost

Most of the Seminars conducted in churches are usually free. Sometimes the host church charges fees to cover the cost for the materials and tea breaks only. Seminars conducted in organizations or Bible Schools do have fees set by the respective organizations.

Further information

You can contact Wah Lok at ngwahlok@yahoo.com
Website : www.tabernaclemusic.net

About the Lecturer Ng Wah Lok

Wah Lok is a pioneer member of Full Gospel Tabernacle (FGT) with was birthed in 1981. He serves as a Worship leader and musician in the church for the last 23 years since the church started. Over these years, he has written more than 100 songs, many of which are used for Worship in his home church. He has also developed extensive teaching materials for training those in the Worship ministry.

Wah Lok graduated with a Masters Degree in Engineering in 1988. Prior to coming out to serve God full time in 1999, he was a Senior General Manager in the Soon Seng Group. In 1999, he left his secular job and took the step of faith to serve God full time. In year 2001 and 2002, he released 2 albums, "Every Time I Pray" and "Shining Stars", surprising many Malaysians with his brand of songs. He also wrote 9 songs for the album "Favored Chick" released by Australian Artiste Barbara Tipper in 2003.

Wah Lok has established a website www.tabernaclemusic.net dedicated to promoting local Gospel Music and training those in the Worship ministry. His website has registered more than 2 million  hits with over 200,000 visitors. Wah Lok is currently Principal of Tung Ling Seminary.

We at G.SUS would like to inform you that our advanced Sound Engineering Seminar, designed to build up professional church soundmen, will be held at a church in your area, Hosanna Praise Assembly USJ over two weekends this April.

This course will be lectured by a professional Christian producer Timothy Lee, the producer of Pastor Ng Wah Lok's albums including "Everytime I Pray", Ps. Aris Siew's albums, and most recently Babara Tipper's Australian Gospel Award winning "Harvest of the Field". All these albums were recorded and produced at our G.SUS studio in Ampang. Timothy is also a talented keyboardist and has played for artists such as Fauziah Latif, Francesca Peters, Bob Fits, and many more.

Participants of Sound Engineering 1 will not only be given basic to advanced level theoretical understanding of Sound Engineering, but also hands-on practical sessions where they will be given the chance to operate complete high-end, professional sound systems; including Compressors, 31-band Graphic Equalizers, Multi-Effects Panels, Mixers, Spectrum Analyzers, Power Amplifiers, Transducers, etc.

Contact:
Timothy Lee at :-
Website: www.gsus.biz
E mail: gsus@rocketmail.com
Tel : 03-42956081

Dr. Drums, our advanced drums seminar by Lim Kok Yen, will be brought to PJ SS2 from 8.00 - 10.15pm every Tuesday starting April 12th until May 3rd. it will be held at Community Baptist Church, and you and your church drummers are all welcome for a FREE preview of the seminar on the first night (April 12th), where Kok Yen himself will be performing.

About the "Doctor"

Lim Kok Yen has been playing and teaching drums professionally for more than a decade now, having studied drums under the late Steve Nathan from the Yamaha Music School for several years.

He has gone on to play with numerous bands including Free Flight, a local jazz band led by local jazz/blues guitar maestro Jordan Rivers. His playing can also be heard on some tracks from Pastor Aris Siew's "Together We Stand", Pastor Ng Wah Lok's hit gospel album "Eveytime I Pray" and Chinese Worship music pioneers James Yee and Pastor Lim Gee Tiong's live Worship albums, "Whirlwind of Worship". He was also part of the band that played for Bob Fitts during his visit to Malaysia in the 90's.

You most likely would have heard Kok Yen's playing before, as he plays in most major Christian rallies, such as the Festival of Praise in Merdeka Stadium with Reinhart Bonke, the Arise & Shine Worship Conference with the Worship leaders from Hosanna Integrity, Breakthrough 2000 in Putra Stadium Bukit Jalil, and the "Here To Life" rally, also in Putra Stadium, with Evangelist Steve Hill.

Course Information

Kok Yen will be teaching lessons on triplet rolls, odd ruffs, funk, Shuffles, Brazilian rhythms, the Moeller technique and much more. There will also be a half-hour, one-to-one individual lesson with Kok Yen at the end of the seminar for all registered participants.

Contact : Timothy Lee at :-

Website : www.gsus.biz
E mail : gsus@rocketmail.com
Tel : 03-42956081

The Singing Shop

The Singing Shop centre for vocal training. (This is a secular centre for vocal training)

The Singing Shop assists individuals to expand their voice range and overcome stage fright. Students are given personalized lessons under the supervision of qualified voice instructors. They  offer pop piano lessons where students will enjoy playing piano the easy way.

The Singing Shop was set up in 1988 by Tunku Anshah, Puan Sri Susan Cheah, Tony Carpio, Esther Tan and Eddie Lai. Since then, The Singing Shop has become a household name and people from all walks of life, bounded by their love for singing has found a place just right to meet their needs. Presently headed by Tunku Arishah (Chairman) backed by her daughter Puan Shalina and another of her close friend Datin Norjan as company directors, The Singing Shop has maintained its name and credibility as the number one singing school in Malaysia, having 3 branches to be proud of, Ampang Dataran Palma (main branch), Desa Sri Hartamas, and PJ SS2.

Sri Hartamas – Tel : 03-23008871
Amcorp Mall – Tel : 03-79573410
Ampang – 03-21663894

Website : www.thesingingshop.com.my

William Kok  - Fingerstyle guitaring

Accomplished guitarist, William Kok is gifted with the ability to play a complete musical arrangement all on one guitar. He has an ability to juggle the bass, melody, rhythm, harmony and other guitar techniques to create an illusion that there is more than one guitarist playing. William's musical journey started when he served as a voluntary teacher in the House of Joy for underprivileged children. In year 2004, he released his debut guitar solo album The Music Maker. In the same year, he won an award in the Malaysian Christian Music Festival for his unique guitar solo with the winning song Amazing Grace. In year 2005, he released his second guitar solo album Every Time I Pray. His calling and vision is to produce praise and Worship songs with guitar solos and train others to discover the musical expressions of a guitar. William serves as a guitarist in his home church Aglow Assembly for the last 12 years and frequently conducts guitar workshops as well as performs publicly with his guitar.

Website : www.music-maker.biz.ly
E mail : kok_william@hotmail.com

Ever dream of writing songs that could become hit songs overnight? Have you ever wondered how talented songwriters like John Williams (film score composer for Star Wars), Sir Elton John, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber or Asian pop idol, Jay Chou could write songs that captured the hearts of millions in the world? Brian John Yim has acquired some of their deep secrets in captivating hearts.

Many aspiring songwriters have benefitted from Brian’s useful ‘Step-by-step songwriting’ workshops where they learned how to write memorable melodies, lyrics and music. Brian uses hands-on approach and lots of examples in helping his students. Participants also get their songs critiqued in the second half of the workshop.

Brian shares about the process of writing a song from the start to the end. You will acquire the skill of writing powerful lyrics and creating memorable melodies. Brian also teaches his students how to use chords that can transform a melody and lyric into an extraordinary and remarkable song, hence, making them more marketable!

In the subsequent workshop, Brian would share about the business part of songwriting & publishing rights. You'll learn about copyright basics, how to make a good demo with limited budget, how royalties are collected and distributed, what a publisher does, how to be your own publisher, and most importantly, how to get your songs to the right people who can get your songs recorded!
 
Who should attend the workshop?

•	People who have passion for music and would like to enhance their composition skills.
•	People who would like to discover their hidden musical talent.
•	People who are preparing to enter into singing or talent competition.
•	People who would like to develop a career in music.

If you are one of the above people, we welcome you to join us in this inspiring workshop to help you find your direction and give you support in music. We are networked with major music agencies and recording companies, we provide you the path for development after training with us. You can enter into different musical career of your interest with the support of our professional guidance.

** Limited to 40 participants only.
*Early registration - first 20 participants will enjoy 15% discount.

For registration, call 0123566787 (Mr. Koo) or 0126102718 (Mr. Ler)

1. The Guitar Store
   http://www.theguitarstore.com.my/courses.html
2. International College of Music
   http://www.icom.edu.my/
3. Yamaha Music School
   http://www.yamahamusic.com.my/Edu/mkids.html
4. UCSI ( University College Sedaya International)
   http://www.ucsi.edu.my/prog_music.asp