example of what taking the next generation If you’re looking for a place to start, I’d suggest along with you can do. If every worship team picking up a BOSS DB-90 Dr. Beat Metronome had the passion for this that Hillsong Young & for your drummer. It’s battery powered, can The easiest feel to dive into is playing on top
Free’s Alex Pappas does, chances are we’d be mounted on a cymbal stand, footswitch of the click. Essentially the goal is to play so
have a lot more great young teams… controllable, your precisely that you are burying the click to the
and
programmable
so
snare on 2 and 4, then kick on 1 and 3.
drummer can input the tempo for each song point you can’t hear it. Then move on to playing
Just let them be a part of it in whatever ways in your service. It even features an audio input behind the click. This feel has a little more ebb
you possibly can. If you’re a worship team as a silent training tool for guitar, bass and and flow to it. The click should be
making music, let them in the room. Let them keyboardists! While you can run the output almost as if there is molasses on the drums
come to the studio and open their eyes to to a powered monitor, I’d suggest letting your causing you to lay back a little bit more than
future possibilities. That’s the kind of stuff that drummer get used to using IEMs since that’s normal. Lastly, playing in front of the click. This
sets brains on fire, so give them a chance. It going to be the norm moving forward. can be extremely difficult because you want
doesn’t have to be taking the first song they
and it’s
to try and have an anticipation to your feel
write and doing it in church this Sunday. But, Whether you’re just starting out with the click, without speeding up. This will take more time
by saying, “I believe in you, you’re gonna crush or your team is already up and running, on- to execute, so it is important to remember not
it, and we need the songs that are in you, so be ramping people to this process takes time to rush. Rather, lean in a little more and feel like
a good steward now!” I can’t stress how much and intent. It’s not just about getting used to you’re leading the click.
letting a young person know that you believe playing with the click, it’s about getting used in them means.” - Alex Pappas // Hillsong to grooving with one. To further illuminate [WM] You and David are both big on
Young & Free this point, we wanted is hear from our communication, but young songwriters often
resident ‘Worship Drum Talk’ groove maestro lack studio experience and the ability to know
Garrett P. Tyler… or articulate what they want. In this instance
preproduction rehearsals can be a great
Hillsong Young & Free // “Real Love”
[WM] Garrett, noting that a lot of teams that vehicle for picking the actual tempo in BPM
are out there don’t use IEMs (in-ear monitors), for the song, and laying the framework for the
chances are that as a team they are not used dynamics and flow for the arrangement. What
to playing with a click. In this month’s Worship tips do you have for drummers stepping into
Drum and Bass talk feature with you and this type of situation?
David Curran, you talk about sitting in front
of, on top of, or behind the click. What [Garrett] Well the first step I would say is to
suggestions do you have for getting a figure out who the bandleader is. If there is a
team that is not used to playing with a prominent MD who has a vision for the song,
click to learn how hear, feel and play start with the direction they are looking for. If
ahead, on top, or behind the beat it is a band effort and each player is bringing
aka click? their own flair, I would say jam the song with
the band and just start to get a feel for each
[Garrett P. Tyler] Like any new skill, section of the song. It is always important to
you have to start somewhere. Playing know where the song is going so you know
ahead, on top, or behind the click is a where to start.
skill that I believe is first executed by the
individual rather than in a band setting. While the drums are always driving the ship,
My advice to teams that don’t have the sometimes that is in an aggressive beat,
experience of playing with a click and but sometimes that can be from a more
diving into these different feels is to just supplementary
start at home in your personal practice. meaning, you are present, but are supporting
Purchase and accenting what the other instruments
a
good
metronome
or
metronome app and start with a basic
position.
Supplementary
are doing.
groove. For Drummers that groove
could be eighth notes on the hi hat,
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