Re: The Church Drummers Thread
I played in a church this last weekend - big building with sound treatment. It's a modern church that is set up for contemporary music and rather than being set up like an older traditional church sanctuary with lots of hard surfaces and natural reverb, it's set up like a good auditorium. The kit was sitting on a platform off to the left (right side, looking at the stage) and was behind a big 6' Clearsonic 6-panel shield. Given the size and acoustics of the room, drum volume should not have been an issue, but at one point I was told I needed to back off - not sure why. Maybe I was playing too loudly because I thought I had the freedom. Later I was told that I was downright controlled compared to some of the other drummers who play there.
In any case, it was nice playing in a setup like that - even though I backed off, I wasn't exactly tickling the drums - the main thing I did to back off was to go to lighter sticks. Since this was a sub situation for me, I figured that it was best to simply comply with what I was being asked to do - I didn't try to add my own flavor to anything either, I simply played the parts like the CDs as much as I could.
But anyway, there you go - volume is this ever-persistent issue with church drumming, and it was no different even in a church where I wouldn't have thought it was going to be an issue.
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