A few weeks ago I stumbled across a website that caught my attention – www.worshipcorner.com
The site is basically a gathering point for songs, teaching videos and other resources for worship leaders. Agreements have been reached with individual artists to allow songs to be played for free and resources to be downloaded for free.
I spent a good amount of time on the site and was pretty impressed. It’s not a complete gathering of everything out there but if you spend some time on the site you’ll see songs from familiar artists (Chris Tomlin, Tim Hughes, Kari Jobe, etc) as well as some songs from artists who are probably new to you.
One interesting concept is the instructional videos – just one pass through the song with a guitar player and then breaking down the song into verse, chorus, bridge sections and going over chord changes, lead guitar lines, etc. Here’s one example, the instructional video for “Sing, Sing, Sing” by Chris Tomlin – http://worshipcorner.com/instructional_video.php?id=91
If you’re looking for some new songs OR if you want your band to get an idea of what they need to play before they come to rehearsal, check out worshipcorner.com and have a look around. It’s good stuff and they will be adding more content soon!