A worship team is just that - a team.  Like any other team it relies on clearly defined roles to be established and adhered to.  In addition to roles, worship teams must work to establish parts for each song.  For a team member to say, “my part is to play the bass guitar” or “my part is to sing” demonstrates a misunderstanding of the crucial differences between a role on the team and the part in a song.

Did you know that a drummer can play a vocal part on the drums?  When this happens (and it does happen), the music sounds cluttered.  If you want to take your worship team to a professional-level, you must go beyond a simple recognition of each member’s role on the team and work to identify and understand each member’s part in each song.

The best thing about musicians knowing their own part is they know what not to play - i.e. someone else’s part!  Being aware of not only your own part in a song, but also the parts of others is one of the main goals of rehearsal.  Instead of trying to get all the musicians to learn the song, help them to learn their part in the song.  This is a very common approach between vocalists.  Get the musicians to do the same thing and you’ll be impressed with the results.