Chippy569
03-26-2006, 10:42 AM
Do any of you guys play at your worship spaces? I'm trying to find some folks who do, just to talk you know?
all these pics are a good 10 months old at least, the kit looks different now, i'm bringing the camera tonight since i finally finished the setup i want!
http://inkinc.hostedz.com/images/drums/FinishGuide/forum19.jpg
Maria, my Sunday night director, looking bored
http://inkinc.hostedz.com/images/drums/FinishGuide/forum16.jpg
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last year there was a family with two little kids (10 and 7) who would always come sit behind me while i played. The mother was disfigured in a car accident, she's got a left glass eye. The two little kids are crazy. The littler one, austin, was facinated by my playing. Every mass, after most people left, he'd come up and ask to play. i'd let him, showing him a couple basic things. over the summer, his mom asked for lessons for him. I said i'm not a teacher. I charged $5 an hour. He came over for an hour every monday. He taught me more than i tought him, i think, about how to enjoy playing for the Noise! and the Fun! and not just technique technique technique. He tought me how to teach, especially to such a young kid.
Actually, at every mass, i've got a little "fan club" of kids who like to sit by the choir just to get into the music and watch what's going on. I've gotten quite a few requests for teaching, most i say "in the summer" and a sad few i have to turn down... (i don't feel confident enough to teach a kid who has absoultely ZERO musical experience some basic music theory, like counting. Piano teachers are for that.)
I go to a catholic church, and while the average age of our church is 35 or so, (we're a YOUNG church. over the course of last year, we had a grand total of 12 funerals), some of the old people like it too. We do some rock stuff (especially with our new guitarist) and it's always fun to see the older folks moving just as much as the younger ones.
Sometimes after mass folks will come up to me and just say thanks. I'm not playing to get thanked, but it always feels nice knowing mission accomplished:
I play at church to help others worship. God gave me the gift of music, but what good is it if i don't share it? So playing with my church is a great outlet for my musical gifts. Nothing feels better to me than knowing i help others worship. that's what my playing at church is all about.
on top of all that, we have some craaaazy stories with the choir members that always make practice hillarious :D
all these pics are a good 10 months old at least, the kit looks different now, i'm bringing the camera tonight since i finally finished the setup i want!
http://inkinc.hostedz.com/images/drums/FinishGuide/forum19.jpg
Maria, my Sunday night director, looking bored
http://inkinc.hostedz.com/images/drums/FinishGuide/forum16.jpg
my favorite window
last year there was a family with two little kids (10 and 7) who would always come sit behind me while i played. The mother was disfigured in a car accident, she's got a left glass eye. The two little kids are crazy. The littler one, austin, was facinated by my playing. Every mass, after most people left, he'd come up and ask to play. i'd let him, showing him a couple basic things. over the summer, his mom asked for lessons for him. I said i'm not a teacher. I charged $5 an hour. He came over for an hour every monday. He taught me more than i tought him, i think, about how to enjoy playing for the Noise! and the Fun! and not just technique technique technique. He tought me how to teach, especially to such a young kid.
Actually, at every mass, i've got a little "fan club" of kids who like to sit by the choir just to get into the music and watch what's going on. I've gotten quite a few requests for teaching, most i say "in the summer" and a sad few i have to turn down... (i don't feel confident enough to teach a kid who has absoultely ZERO musical experience some basic music theory, like counting. Piano teachers are for that.)
I go to a catholic church, and while the average age of our church is 35 or so, (we're a YOUNG church. over the course of last year, we had a grand total of 12 funerals), some of the old people like it too. We do some rock stuff (especially with our new guitarist) and it's always fun to see the older folks moving just as much as the younger ones.
Sometimes after mass folks will come up to me and just say thanks. I'm not playing to get thanked, but it always feels nice knowing mission accomplished:
I play at church to help others worship. God gave me the gift of music, but what good is it if i don't share it? So playing with my church is a great outlet for my musical gifts. Nothing feels better to me than knowing i help others worship. that's what my playing at church is all about.
on top of all that, we have some craaaazy stories with the choir members that always make practice hillarious :D