Laying Down The Beats

Played drums at church today. Had a great morning.

The practice was scheduled for 7:30am. Ya - in the morning. And I'm a night person. And, my church is 45 minutes away in Alliston. But, I miss playing since our band broke up - so I'm a drummer for hire!

Setlist

Sing, Sing, Sing
Because Of Your Love
Overcome
Awesome In This Place (not the Hillsong version; it was a slow, unknown song to me)
You Are Worthy Of My Praise
King Of Majesty (encore song, didn't play)

I've not played any of these songs before so I got on You Tube yesterday and made some drum notes. Unfortunately at church practice, we only "run thru the songs", we don't learn them like a band, so it's almost an improvise, if you like. In the band, we learned the songs - every punch, crash, and accent. Every beat. I like that. From what I hear, almost every church worship band "runs thru the songs" - a verse and chorus - and it's good enough.

Well, except Jody Cross - his band learns the songs note for note!

Still good to get behind the kit and rock out some praises.