Didn't mean to cause an issue Tom.................will pay more attention
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 denomination to be a performer there
My answer: Yes, most of the time. A lot of the time, people that start playing music in church are already church members of that particular church, so they follow the same tenets by default.
Question from Kay-Gee: or is it just a gig that you try for and when there is an opening you get to play?
Depends. If there's an opening and you are a halfway decent player, you can get the position. Some musicians will start attending certain churches that have praise teams already in place so that the chance for playing is higher. If positions are already filled, a lot of times there's a rotation. For example, I get every third Sunday off.
Hope this follows the rules Tom! I'm really trying here.
Didn't mean to cause an issue Tom.................will pay more attention
Not a problem guys. Remember, you can always answer someone's direct question through PM too if it's easier.
In my case we were parishioners there. My daughter signed up for the kids choir. She overheard the music director saying he wanted a drummer so my kid signed me up. LOL!
That was a few years ago and it's been a lot of fun and I've become friendly with the other musicians. People from town know me as "the drummer at church"... It's been a lot of fun!
For a while, it was the only drumming I could do, due to time, schedules, etc.
I'd think that being part of that religious denomination would help, and in my case, it did, but I wouldnt say its mandatory.
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Kevin
DW Performance series - Gun Metal Metallic Lacquer
24/12/16 6.5x14
Sabian AA/AAX hi-hats & crashes
Sabian HHX Evolution ride
Drummers can be very tempomental.....
We are about to start our second service. That is a lot on a Praise Team. I could only imagine what playing three services would be like.
How many of you guys use a wood block or a jam block to take the place of your rim shots? I have a red jam block to use but the pitch of it makes my ears ring sitting behind the drum shield. They seem to like it but I don't feel comfortable using it. Help me out with a new idea.
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kits:
Mapex Saturn IV -- Transparent Espresso Walnut (10-12-14-16-22)
RMV Bapeva shell -- Blue Sparkle (12-14-16-22)
snares:
14x6.5 Yamaha seamless brass
14x6.5 Taye Metalworks vintage brass
14x6.5 Taye Metalworks stainless steel
14x6 Tama Starphonic brass
14x6 Pork Pie maple
10x6 Pork Pie maple
cymbals:
14" K's and New Beats
20" Byzance Sand Ride
20" K Custom Dark Ride
21" HHX Legacy Ride
20" and 22" Dream Contact Crash/Rides
15" AAX Dark Crash
16" Signature Fast Crash
18" Saluda Earthworks Crash
20" Crash of Doom
8" A Custom splash
10" Signature splash
electronics:
Roland SPD-30
Alesis Sample Pad Pro
How about my block question? Can anyone help me figure out which one will fit my area of music?
I was talking to a guy who is a much sought-after acoustic engineer who designs studios, control rooms, and venue spaces for optimum acoustics for some of heavy hitters in the music world. I mentioned the plexiglass fish tank our drummer plays behind, and his response was that drum screens are absolutely useless in cutting drum sound, unless they are the total surround fish tank with a roof on it.
Anyway, I Know they do have a placebo effect. Folks see the fish tank, and think the drums are quieter, when they aren't. Our church's fish tank kept coming apart at the hinges because it was a defective piece o' poo poo, so we use 3 panels instead of 5. Again, because of the placebo effect, folks don't notice.
And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw. . .
I play a Roland TD-10 six piece at my church. I prefer acoustic drums, but I don't pay for anything there and it is easier to run through the sound board and for them to control the volume when I start getting into it and playing hard/loud lol
I'm the drummer in my worship team and have to tell people (and set click track) what the bpms are for each song during practice... so for example, should I use 86 bpm (1/4 notes) or 172 bpm (1/8 notes)? I've tended to use 1/4 notes cause that's what someone would be clapping at or foot tapping... seems logical to use the 1/4 notation but the worship team leader sends out the songs with 1/8 notation at the top, which seems like too many clicks and too busy... Is there a standard or preference?
I have played with multiple bands that use clicks. There's no standard, at least in my experience. Most of them have used the 1/4 notation, but a few used the 1/8 notation. My current church doesn't use a click full time, in fact it's mainly for learning songs. But we use 1/8, as it's easier for the other musicians to keep time. It really doesn't matter to me, as long as the accent click is defined.
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I prefer 1/4 notes myself....................but 1/8th notes generally work better to keep everyone in time IMO. We have several different members and any Sunday there are a number of different musicians playing.
Obviously, some have better timing than others, but 1/8th notes help across the board.....................hope this helps
I might have a shot at playing drums in my church. The current drummer has been promote to lead the youth group and has no time to continue to play for the morning service.
I would say an actual wooden one would blend better. Grover's are nice and warm sounding although the mounting options are more limiting. LP Groove Blocks are good too, a bit brighter and higher, plus you have to buy the mount separately, but they will mount at more heights than the Grover ones.
If you are wanting a plastic block, the Pearl low clave block has the same pitch as the LP red block but with a more authentic tone. Or, the medium clave block or blue jam block for a slightly higher sound that is more of the pitch of a regular cross stick.
I took the afternoon off to get a jump on the swap out of the house kit to the one I'll be using. The house kit is a beat up SP 5pc with stock heads. The cymbal set was Zildjian ZBT/ZXT and the hardware was a mismatch of stock SP double braced stands and the pedal was a Pearl 800W.
Before:
Stock worn out heads:
Zildjian ZBT/ZXT
Pearl 800W bass drum pedal:
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The immediate area round the kit was a "Pig Pen" (sorry about the out of focus picture), so I asked for a vacuum cleaner and went to work cleaning the area up after I broke down the "House" kit and stashed them in an adjoining office.
I found this interesting. A broken stick in a venue that requires a light touch on the drums. Hmmm...
I was told the drummer I replaced had to step it up and learn "on the fly" on how to play drums (he's really a keyboard player) since they had nobody else to call upon. He's has now been promoted within the organization and I was tipped off by a friend who attends this church that they needed to find a replacement really quick so I stepped forward and they accepted me after a short informal interview. The former drummer was only able to do 4 on the floor with the kick so everything he played sounded like a disco beat from the '80s. As you can tell by the stick marks on the stock heads that there was very little stick control since the marks are all over the heads, especially near the edges of the head.
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After:
2007 DW Collector's in Twisted Exotic with a lacquered finish in a standard all maple configuration. Tom sizes are 8x10, 9x12 and 12x14. The kick is 18x22 and the snare is a Mapex BirdsEye Maple 6.5x14. I experimented with heads since the stock DW/Remo on the DW were too loud with too much overtones for church, (my opinion only).
I decided to uses Evans Blue hydraulic heads and I think I made the right call. No long lasting overtones and a quick decay but very deep sounding heads. The cymbal set up is 13" HHX Evolution hihats with two vent holes cut into the bottom cymbal cup and 4 sets of rivets set into the bottom hihat cymbal. The primay crash over the first rack tom is a Zildjian 16" A Custom crash, the second cymbal on top is a AAX 10" splash, the ride is a AAX 20" stage ride and the last cymbal over the floor tom is a Zildjian A 14" Fast Crash. The pedal is a single DW9000 and the hihat stand is a two leg DW5000.
The space for the kit is very small and I panicked when I saw what I had to work with. The throne is literally an few inches from the back wall.
I had to lock down 4 cymbal stand with two curved 24" rack pipes since I could not fully extend the tripod legs due to the cramped space.
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