If you identify with that, then you need to be He was such a good drummer. He had skills, [Jared] Embrace the uniqueness of your
willing and happy for someone else to guide but not maturity. He had a double kick and he team’s sound. If the strongest person on stage
you in the process. If someone else says, wasn’t afraid to use it. I thought, in ten-years- is an acoustic guitarist, then start a piano-
“Hey, let’s do this in the verse”, then respect time, he’d be amazing because he’d have driven song with a nice finger picking guitar
that person’s talent or authority and the gift that taste, not just skill. part. Make the use of your people. It doesn’t
God’s given them and get on board. There are
need to be like the record. If no one on your
so many egos involved in a church worship [WM] Lots of modern keyboards and programs team has the creative gift to re-appropriate an
band. We’re all so keen to doing our own thing. like MainStage give keyboard players a huge arrangement for a new lineup of players, then
selection of sounds. Do you feel pressure to use the blessing that is the studio recording to
use a different sound on every song? really guide you.
the band I was playing with. They were all great [Jared] If I was producing in the studio then, Someone brought some great players in to use
players, but they all overplayed. It was almost sure, I’d spend time developing distinct sounds their taste and their skills for that recording.
everybody busy all the time. With the lead guitar for each song. But if it’s Sunday morning for me Don’t be afraid of matching that recording if it’s
over everything. The issue wasn’t that he didn’t a nice warm pad does the job. Creating distinct in your wheelhouse.
have skills or that he couldn’t play. The issue sounds seems to be more of a studio thing than was that he played too much. And they didn’t a Sunday morning thing.
I played an outreach event a couple of weeks
ago. The church worship band was on before
There’s a line between feeling like you need
have someone either bold enough or in that
to reinvent the wheel every Sunday and
space enough to go, “Hey, let’s take this jigsaw [WM] Without the help of MultiTracks and a feeling like your slaves to the recording. The
puzzle apart and put it together in a different band that’s spent lots of time tweaking their balance between these two is different for
way. We can still have a lead guitar break, but individual sounds, no worship team is going to different churches.
let’s do it in one spot. The rest of the time I want sound exactly like a recording. That can be a you play open chords.” The drummer was 12. frustration for some. Should it be?
August 2019
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