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Number 12: The Arrangement
The arrangement is where the rubber hits the road for church music. The arrangement is what you do when you actually play a song - the way you put both the instruments and the song itself together. With careful thought there is a lot you can do to help convey the message of a song through the musical arrangement. (And you can completely ruin a song with an inappropriate arrangement!)
There are two aspects to any arrangement: