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Originally Posted by n david
I help lead worship at church. Also play the keyboard. Thank God for MainStage and Sunday Keys. Now and then I play the drums. I grew up playing the drums and trumpet. Haven't played the trumpet in probably 30 years now. After I started playing the drums, I never went back to the trumpet. I can play very basic chords on the guitar.
I've tried writing songs but apparently I'm that singer/musician who can't write. I recorded a song with my church's choir back in the late 80s. Also recorded a song on a live recording at college in the early 90s.
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Not sure if those programs have the similar aspect as what I have been in contact with.
I recently gave a talk at a pastor's conference in Monterey, at a church a friend of mine pastors. He asked me if I would stay over and play for the music service.
The in-ear voile that drive the direction of the song was completely foreign to a guy that has played in bands his whole life--one in which direction is either give in real-time, or, in the case of most of my circuit-play--directed by head-bobs, lol.
I'm assuming Mainstage has the ability to compensate for missing band members--in other words, if you have a drummer, the drummer is dropped from the mix, and so on.
My problem was, the songs we played had like three or four "lead guitar" tracks, so it was a smorgasborg of clang.
And by "clang," I mean the "overt and odd musical osmosis that modern praise and worship has made with the style of U2." Nearly all of the Hillsong/Jesus Culture/insert-whomever here guitar technique involves the continual "down-pick" technique with no nuance. The riffs are all diatonically correct, but they sound harsh.
Now, I have never found that style completely off-putting, but at the same time, it seems to have a sterile and passion-less middle setting. For a guy that grew up on the dynamics of what a guitar can offer, it really set me back.
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