Worship Musician April 2020 | Page 116

EPISODE #1 By Doug Doppler When we launched the Worship Guitar Show, Many if not most of the teams I’ve served on players, we couldn’t help but notice the lack we were already working on episode one of the lived in the Sunday to Sunday cycle week in of actual training material that was online Worship Drums Bass + Keys Show. When the and week out not doing much (if anything) specifically for worship team rhythm sections. Nashville tornado was followed by the outbreak to improve from week to week. For the time From getting your grooves tight, to groovy gear of the Coronavirus, not only did our production being, we’ve been forced to raise the bar by reviews, everything we’ll be covering has to fit timeline get pushed back, our whole focus on maximizing the musicians on deck and I hope in the framework of being both practical and raising the bar for Easter went right out the this inspires us to dig deeper in the season applicable. The most obvious place to start window with it. Thankfully, much of the content to come. The goal of our shows is to provide is getting everyone on the same page with we created was ‘evergreen’ enough to be access to the strategies and techniques to subdivisions, hence why we’re covering it for applicable in the season at hand. do so, be they around your gear, technique, both the drummers and bass players. When approach, combination I’m rostered to play bass I almost always stand THE GOAL – BREAKING THE SUNDAY TO SUNDAY thereof. Knowing that there is a profound felt technology or a where I can see the drummer’s right foot, and for CYCLE need for this stuff, we’re going to do all we can the vast majority of the services I’ve played, not While the Coronavirus is a tragedy that is still to come along side you and your team with only did the drummer not play the part on the unfolding, it has given teams a much-needed great content designed to solve the problems record, their kick drum pattern changed from opportunity to think about how they do what so many of us have encountered, while having verse to verse. The ability to count subdivisions they do, outside of the ‘Sunday to Sunday’ a great time in the process. Not only do we get allowed me to track what they were doing on cycle. While Easter is always a great time to to use our gifts unto the Lord, we get to do this the fly, and that’s where many bass players live. raise the bar, one of the things we want to speak together and that is so exciting! Our goal is to help move teams beyond that into is how we can help you and your team by inspiring conversations about what the kick grow every week, hence our #BetterBySunday PRACTICAL + APPLICABLE pattern is for each song so we can play tighter, hashtag. When we were studying the breadth and better support our worship leaders, and more depth of content out there for worship guitar importantly sound better as a team. 116 April 2020 Subscribe for Free...