Everybody loves our church drummer. He is literally one of the nicest, humblest and sincere people I know. Adds tons to the music. Very intuitive player.
Drummers I was in a church that got a new pastor. He brought in a 'praise team' to replace the piano player and organ player. The drums and bass and lead singer were so loud I literaly could not hear myself sing even thou I sat in the back. The amplication was turned up high and it was in a rather small room that could hold maybe 200. It ruined the music for me. I liked many of the new worship songs as well as our old hymns. But if you can't hear yourself or the rest of the people singing then you might as well be at a concert rather than a worship service.
I saw Jonnie in the Dallas area at the Gateway Men's Summit last year (2023). He is awesome! And very friendly when you get to meet him. Not a cage-free drummer, but a great comedian!
Years ago I was at a small church (20-40 people). They were desperate to grow and would use anyone they could get to do work. They had a 'song leader' and a piano player. That was it. The song leader quit and since I could carry a tune I ended up being the 'song leader.' The piano player only knew a few songs and could not transpose to a lower key to make it easier for people to sing. So I would select songs that were in a lower key to make it easier for people to sing. Then I taught myself to transpose music and gave the piano player copies of good songs but that had been in a key too high for most people to sing. There were people who did not know anything about music who would tell me I was good at song leading. It had nothing to do with me. It was about doing songs in a key low enough for most people to sing in. Most people who are singing along can not sing harmony. They sing the melody line and if that line is too high then they tend to not sing. I wish more 'song leaders' would select better keys for the benefit of the people. drummer
Yes, and I have a difficult time transposing some modern songs - Holy Forever is one - where the beginning as Chris Tomlin sings it is too low (for a female voice) and middle is reachable but the chorus is, well, I don't have the vocal range to get up that high. So, I'd love to, but can't sing them in church 😊.
@@bernadettematera-stacey1982 I know. For those of us who have a narrow vocal range it means some songs don't work well. If the range between the lowest note and the hightest note is too wide we can't sing it. Sometimes I will drop the highest note an octave so I can reach it - it may not sound the best but at least I can sing the rest of the song.
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Hey! Be nice to the white lady tamborine players. Tracy of the Partridge family played the tamborine like it was nobody's business and kept time like an atomic clock.
Oh no no no no…I love drummers💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 I’ve sat on the front row in a church years ago just to watch the drummer..not just be the was good-looking, but because he played the drums!!!!!! Could listen to drums 24/7🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
One day, after church, an 80+ plus lady was chatting with me(not the drummer, lol) and she said, oh I love the drummer, he is so good. I agreed of course, he was very good, but loved that she love his playing.
At the church I go to, we have several drummers (they rotate). One of them, who is a friend of mine, told me he got "fired" because he did not play the drums loud enough. He says drums are suppose to quietly be in the background keeping the rhythm. I may be wrong, but I find it very distracting when drummers are pounding away as loud as they can. They act like they are at a rock and roll concert, not a solemn worship service. Even those plexiglass "walls" do not cut down on the loudness.
The comment below "Drummers:" I have a neighbor who sang in a praise team. One day, this was about ten years ago, they let her and several others go because they were too old. She was about fifty at the time. They wanted younger people. She started coming to my church, I introduced her to a choir member and I see her singing in the choir regularly. Yes, we do have a praise team, but they just complement the choir, not drown it out. Of course, the choir DOES have over 100 members.
I'm the music director at my church, and I think it totally depends on the song. Trying to sing "Holy And Anointed One" with pounding drums would be ridiculous. Singing "Praise" by Elevation Worship, or For King and Country's "Little Drummer Boy" _needs_ the drums to be heard.
I am a church drummer so this was great click bait! What a comedic talent. Zapping the tambourine lady has crossed my mind - and I’m a mild mannered Canadian. 😂
I’m just laughing because I’m Catholic and am the drummer for the church that I attend in which there isn’t anything around me besides the instruments, musicians and congregation.
In almost every church I have ever been in, the drummer is more or less the MOST loved member of the band. I’m not sure what drummers you’ve been using lol
i was playing drums when I was a kid with songs from Don Moen and integrity music and our conservative pastor with his wife always call me devilish drummer 😂. imagine don moen songs are not even rock music vs to todays type of worship songs hahaha. he just hated drums! his wife always stares at me and gives me that look. fast forward - now that couple with their very conservative view are now debating with their daughter and their granddaughter who transitioned from a woman to a man 😂🤣😂🤣
This title was such clickbait! I'm my church's drummer. Your title implies that nobody likes me. I was hoping for an explanation! I didn't even know that they didn't like me! WHY DOES EVERYBODY HATE ME?!?!?! I WANNA KNOW!!!! Edit: My initial comment was a joke, although after what has happened in the replies section, I get the feeling that that's not as clear as I thought it was. Last time I checked, nobody at my church hates me. Everyone who has commented on my drumming has said that they enjoy it and a few people have said it makes them happy to see a young person using their gifts to glorify God (I'm 18 as of when I'm writing this). Everyone in our worship team loves God and could never dream of using their position for anything other than praising our Lord and Savior. I hope this clears up my original comment. God bless.
Ya know the mother in the church who is careless enough to give her baby a key ring or rattle to play with during the service just to pacify her lil pumpkin-but the rattling drives everyone in the congregation crazy? You guys are them babies that grow up to be drummers making noise in the church and not having enough sense to know you’re causing a disturbance.
@@jhusmc96 Fine. Now I’m talking to you and anyone else who wonders why drummers aren’t needed, nor wanted by huge numbers in congregations across this planet. You’re terribly mistaken. Not everyone likes drums in the church. Maybe some loud, obnoxious churches do, but some churches prefer to actually hear sweet, pleasant music; not brash clanging and banging. And in most smaller churches those plexi-glass shields are merely placed there to TRY to placate the many folks who wish there wasn’t a drummer there at all. It doesn’t ever work. We don’t need to be placated, we want a pleasing atmosphere of true spiritual worship to God-not an air of carnal worship designed to move the flesh.
I actually left a church because of the drummer. He didn’t have much experience apparently, very little rhythmic variation and a propensity to do that thing where a drummer just bangs out constant quarter notes with both sticks at the same time. And of course starting out a little quieter and building. Once a service would be okay, but every song? Sometimes more than once in a song?! It pains me just to think about it.
Reality is...the old folks suffer with the drums in church. Nobody seems to care about this though do they? I dont have anything against drummers or any of the instruments but cant they make it ok for everyone.
