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With that said, I have 20 years of church drumming experience, and my PM box is open for any other questions/concerns of church drumming which may cross the line in the public forum. I'm not an...

No problem Tom. I tried so hard not to cross the line. Sorry! :)

Let me try again. Here goes:

Question from Kay-Gee: Do you have to belong to a church or believe the tenets of the...

This. This right here.


Awesomely put.

It's a good question kay-gee. I've lived through the change in our local church culture from the old standby of hymns played on a piano and/or organ to the desire for more modern worship music (e.g....

Thanks for the words. I've been through this before at another church, and at one point, I was playing 8 times every Sunday one of the churches that I used to be involved with:

1 - 7:30am...

Update: Our church will be moving the THREE morning services starting in October. We have reached the 80% capacity during the second service, so it's time to expand. In other words, if a family of...

Oh, I've played my fair share inside of The Aquarium. Better yet, I've played inside a homemade aquarium...with a rotting egg crate mattress pad staple-gunned to the ceiling that used to fall down...

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Yay! The concert is online!

Go to http://mpbc.ws/media/ and click on 1-25-15.

Here are a couple of highlights and the set list (and times in case you want to skip around).

Highlights: ...

Yeah, I just want to make sure I don't look like a total shlub up there. I'd thought about seeing if I could borrow someone's goPro or something like that.

Ours rarely do. I talked to the sound guy about it. I'm hoping that this one will be different.

This past Sunday, our church did a praise and worship concert. We had the entire service, so we played 13 songs. We had to play two services, so that equals 26 songs. We also had practice before...

Don't feel bad about not being able to hear kick patterns. Vertical Church has really great tutorial videos on how to do their songs. I'm usually really good at being able to hear patterns. ...

I think this is a prime example of "I get it, but I don't necessarily like it."

Hey, if it works for your church, I'd say go for it.

Thanks Frankie for the kind words. I've been playing worship music for close to 20 years now (in addition to a few bands), but I feel like I have the skill of someone that's been playing for 3-4...

Hey, can we start a discussion about the drummer's stage presence during worship? This may be just be me being self-conscious or something, but how do you deal with stage presence on a worship team?...

Anyone have trouble hearing what the drummer is doing in modern worship music? I guess it just really depends on the song for me. For the life of me I couldn't hear what the heck was going on in...

I never really had to practice worship music up until about 3 years ago. I don't think that the majority of parts are terribly difficult; I think that I'm having difficulty remembering which...

Really good point. I would much rather play the song then just get through the song. I've done both, and probably a little too much of the latter.

Here's a question for you: Is worship music getting too complicated?


We learn at least one new song a month, and a current trend in modern worship music (in playing drums anyways) is for drum...

I'm glad the video worked! :)

I'm glad your service went well today.

I've been fighting some pretty nasty sickness since Tuesday, and I absolutely HAD to play today. I've had a dry hacking cough, some nausea, some CRAZY...

I totally get this, and I've play in groups like this as well. It used to drive me nuts when our worship leader would play a CD for the team, and the song would have a drummer, an auxiliary...

I did this for a long time, and I take no issue with this at all. In addition, I do take some license with worship music, but not nearly as much as I used to. I'm really afraid of everything...

Seems to be a lot of the "4 on the floor" songs bouncing around right now as well.