Do you use pads while leading worship?

Pads are a simple way to add musical depth to any worship team.

And... if you lead with sparse instrumentation - they're even MORE important…

The idea of incorporating pads into your worship leading has really been amped up over the past year. It's treated as a magic bullet. "Just add pads and it'll improve your worship team's sound." While there are major benefits to incorporating pads into your worship leading, there are several things that using them will not do…

While pads won't help with certain things, they are a valuable tool in worship leading. They have the ability to instantly improve subtle qualities of your bands sound. Keep in mind, they will only support what's already there. But if what's already there is good, they have the ability to improve it…

Pads are an easy way to add a little something extra to your worship team's sound. They are an ethereal base that drones behind what your band is doing. They provide a fuller sound by filling in the frequencies that your band's typical instruments don't fill up.

Pads are great because you can use them in any instrumentation set up - all the way from you leading by yourself with just an acoustic guitar to a full band…