HANDITECH IN COLLABORATION WITH JCCB
Initiates
PROJECT
KINGDOMSOUND
On one
occasion, the following conversations took place between a Lion who is a member
of JCCB and a JCCB Lioness.
JCCB
LION: You are back from the program?
JCCB
LIONESS: Yes I am back
JCCB
LION: How was it?
JCCB
LIONESS: It was fine but the sound was bad.
If not for the Caliber of minister
that came, I would have Left.
JCCB LION
[JLN]: You mean you stayed back because
of the Caliber of minister that came to the
Program? In other words, if there was no minister that came to the
program or it was another minister, you would have left?
JCCB LIONESSES: Yes I would have. Those guys
are not serious
JLN: Well, thank God for the minister. Are you
going for tomorrow’s session?
JCCB
LIONESS: Yes; but I will go late, I will time myself. I will time myself. I
will arrive at the venue, 15-30 minutes before the minister mounts the podium.
On another occasion, The following conversation
took place between a Choir member in JCCB and another choir member.
Choir
Member 1[CM1]: How was the concert?
Choir Member2
[cm2]: Mtcheww.If not for God eeh? God
saved them. They didn’t prepare or plan themselves well. The sound was bad from
the beginning. The OGS did not know what they were doing. One boy came and set
everything for them before the sound became good.
A much
more recent conversation went thus:
Robodrumz:
Chubby thank God you have arrived. Sound has just been a mess.
Benson:
And had it been I and Robo were not here, it would have been much messier.
Chubby:
*Dumb folded* Says in his mind, “Why is it that nobody wants to learn? Is it
when I leave CASOR? Am I going to stay here forever?
Another
conversation scenario went thus:
Choir
Mistress: How was the concert?
Keyboardist:
Great. I thank God. I really enjoyed myself like King David.
Choir
Mistress: Rate the program.
Keyboardist:
It was great. Sound was good. I was hearing myself very well but the bassist
was unbearable. He was playing more than nonsense. The drummer was ok. At
least, he was manageable. I had to tell the bassist to stop. When He refused, I
left the keyboard so the organizers had to kick him out.
Choir
Leader: That was very cruel of you. Why couldn’t you just manage him?
Keyboardist:
God forgive you and may the eyes of your understanding be enlightened. That
means that someone like you can manage to eat from a pot of soup of which a
drop of kerosene as part of the ingredient during preparation. As for me,
Instead of adding chicken Laps that has been contaminated with half drop of
kerosene, Its wisdom that you leave out the chicken laps. For what shall it
profit a concert to gain the whole sound and loose the feel?
Choir
Leader: Hmmm, I don’t know what to say. You are right. I equally understand how
it feels when someone is singing off in the choir; when there is a
contamination in alto, tenor, or soprano. It’s usually disgusting. But you have
not yet rated the program.
Keyboardist:
There was one choir that sang; My God!!! Those guys were good; not just good
but God used them to minister unto the congregation. They sang You are God
alone by Marvin Sapp. They came with their keyboardist but their keyboardist
but came quietly and told me that I should accompany him since I could play
more than him and I knew the song. We planned briefly how both of us will play
the song and thank God, God does not take junk. He really showed up in full,
when perhaps, some people in the congregation when some people in the
congregation started understanding and feeling the weight of the message that
was being passed to them; that God is God alone in our everything and to Him
belongs all Glory, honor, dominion and Power forever and ever, Amen. The Choir
was tight and they sang down God’s presence seriously, God came down.
Another
choir sang do you want a revolution by Kirk Franklin. The youths who were the
bulk of the population in the concert [mostly campus folks] were happy. In fact
it was entertainment galore with that choir. Yet Another Choir sang sha just
one cool song. They did not know much about singing but they tried their best.
Somehow, I preferred their ministration to some others that were so noisy and
too much display of skills that spoilt the whole thing.
Choir
Leader: It seems you went for an adventure in that concert
Keyboardist:
It was more than an adventure. It was really a wonderful experience. Thank God
for that tight Choir that sang in Spirit and in truth. I will like to join such
a choir; Building my spirit man skills and talents, not just singing or playing
but ministering to God as well as the
audience.
From
the Proposer’s Studio:
By God’s grace, I am in my Final lap as a student of University of Nigeria,
Nsukka for one year and University of Nigeria Enugu Campus for 4 years. After
an encounter with God, Last year, my life changed including the perspective
which I view life including the feedback I give to what feeds into my Life. To
cut Long stories short, I only engage in activities that are kingdom business
oriented and will lead to the establishment and advancement of the Kingdom of
God.
With 1corinthians 12:14-27 as a
mirror, Even the smallest member of the Human body, the cell, has its functions
split amongst organelles or departments of which in the cell of a kingdom based
body/cell like JCCB, there happens to be an organelle or department called the
music department and the ogs department which are inter twined in function just
like there are other departments like the ushering department, the drama
department etc.
When the ogs department and the
music department/organelle of the JCCB cell is facing challenges or gets into
comma, the whole JCCB suffers with it. As a matter of fact, this department is
in coma; therefore a feedback response has been activated leading to the birth
of this project, KINGDOM SOUND.
Sound in a simple definition is the
vibration of air molecules that stimulates our eardrums. People who work with
sound everyday tend not to think about the science and fundamentals of what
sound is all about and take it for granted. Buy unless you have assimilated a
good understanding of the nature of the medium in which you work? How are you
ever going to make it really work for you? Don’t be surprised or disappointed
that your OGS or music director in charge of sound production in your church or
fellowship or kingdom body/organization won’t be able to answer the following
questions:
1.
What
is sound?
2.
How
is it measured or what is its unit?
As far
as we are concerned, Sound starts with a vibrating source, commonly the vocal
cords, musical instruments, headphones, earphones and loudspeaker Diaphragm.
The same
applies to those involved in making the sound. It is not only the sound gig [or
sound engineer] that has the full responsibility.
No
professional sound engineer will bother himself with an organization that
doesn’t know the difference between good sound and bad sound neither will
he/she bother himself or herself setting up sound for some amateur music makers
who really know nothing about the fundamentals of sound which makes music nor
how the elements used in making music interact.
This
topic as a matter of importance should not be overlooked although in most
kingdom based bodies and organizations, it is fully overlooked.
A preacher once said, “God does not take
Junk” Even those that serve the Devil don’t dream of giving the devil junk. How about God? The fact remains that in some
aspects, departments, organelles, we give God junk and don’t care about what
God is saying or what we are giving Him.
To this effect, Handitech in
collaboration with JCCB has taken it up under the project, KINGDOM SOUND to
effect positive changes by:
1.
Train
JCCB OGS”es” every fellowship free of charge for a better production in their
meetings. The training will involve both the theoretical and practical aspects
starting from the foundation [scratch] to a very appreciable level by teaching
the reason and principle behind the function. Advanced training might cost a
little token and these series of training and skill acquisition involves sound
recording and production software usage, techniques and mastering. Examples of
software being taught are fl studio, Adobe SoundBooth, adobe audition, nero
wave editor etc.
2.
Train
the music makers of JCCB and this is divided into two arms
2a. The
instrumentalists which consists of the keyboardist, The Guitarist, and the
Drummer.
2b. The Song Leaders
and the Choir
LOGISTICS BEHIND TRAINING OF SONG
LEADERS AND THE CHOIR
A
characteristic of a good experienced Leader is this: Functionality and Loyalty
of whatever subject or phenomenon He or She is leading. In this arena, members
are song leaders, backup singers and the choir members as a whole.
More
emphasis placed on training the song leader(s) and the backup singers who in
turn will train his/her choir members.
My
expertise will be employed periodically to brush up and fine tune the trainings
giving to the choir members. Trained Choir members will be pooled up
occasionally at all nights for tutorial updates as JCCB MASS CHOIR and this
will only be exclusive to members that are trained.
The present and past song leaders
should select a maximum of 6 backup singers
2 soprano singers
2 alto singers
2 Tenor Singers
They will
be chosen obeying the principles and SOP embedded in Acts 13:2.
As a
matter of necessity, they will have to be thought the same fundamental theory
and practical of music and sound production just like the instrumentalist will
be thought. To this effect, knowledge of at least one musical instrument is
compulsorily mandatory and the singer is left to make his or her choice of
instrument.
Fundamentally speaking and due to
logistics, the ownership of an acoustic guitar or keyboard or easy access to
one that is readily available is a prerequisite.
Ownership of a saxophone or a
piccolo/flute or Violin is manageable.
Ownership of a recorder [i.e. this
flute used by Brigade brands might be manageable
LOGISTICS FOR
TRAINING INSTRUMENTALISTS
Training
of Instrumentalists is restricted to mainly first years studying a 4 or 5 year
course or a student of FHST/LAW in 2nd year. Care should be taken be
fellowship to select students that have passion for what they want to learn and
sacrifice for it. Note that it shall be a maximum of two persons for each
instrument. The training is restricted to this no of persons due to Logistics.
Only Fellowships with more than 2 keyboards and bass guitar can register a maximum
of 3 students.
Training
of the keyboardist, guitarist, and drummer will require a token of N5000 for
additional multimedia materials
However,
passionate individuals that can afford their own personal keyboards and guitars
can join the training session.
Drummers
must be a maximum of two persons since fellowships, logically speaking have
only two drum sets [old and new]
NOTE: It
would be very wise that trainees that are chosen are dedicated and passionate
kingdom minded members of the interested fellowship. This matter as important
as Acts 13:2 and the principle embedded therein.
LOGISTICS FOR TRAINING THE SOUND
GIG
Training
of sound gig will be restricted to students of all years/levels except first
years and final years.
A token
of N2000 will be provided for logistic for each fellowship which will be used
for fuelling the generator and legally purchasing multimedia tutorial
materials, tutorials on fixing up of different types of chords, jacks, plugs
and accessories involved in the Kingdom of Sound set up.
MISCELLANEOUS LOGISTICS
1.
Bulk
Sms
2.
Phone
Calls
3.
Seeking
other Resource persons as well as appreciating them in training sessions
4.
Production
of a DVD for each tutorial session
TOTAL LOGISTICS FOR FULL TRAINING
SESSION
N5000
for Total instrumentalists Training
N3000
for Voice Training
N2000
for miscellaneous
TOTAL:
N10, 000
Most of
the multimedia materials which will consist of tutorial videos apart from
training sessions and shared amongst fellowship that indicated interest as this
will legally cut cost of purchase since it is bought under JCCB.
To this
effect, interested fellowships should send an email containing the following
details to kingdomsoundproductionz@gmail.com or extraordinarygospelsounds@gmail.com much preferably with a letter
head.
1.
Name
of Fellowship
2.
Area
of proposal of which appeals to your interest in a tabular form
|
INSTRUMENT
|
NAMES OF TRAINEES
|
|
KEYBOARD
|
|
|
BASS
|
|
|
DRUMS
|
|
3.
SONG
LEADERS AND BACKUP SINGERS TRAINING
|
NAMES
OF TRAINEES
|
INSTRUMENT(S)
THEY WILL LEARN OR BUILD UP WITH
|
|
|
|
Thanks
in anticipation for positive response as we partner to establish and advance
the kingdom.
This
project is expected to kick off by July.
For
more information and clarification, Call chubby @ 07037775757
