Recent content by ninjaaron

It's funny you say that because I feel like my approach to guitar is... Well, somewhat bass-like, or maybe cello-like. I definitely do less in terms of fancy leads and more in terms of octave lines that reinforce the harmony and the beat, but I do pound chords and throw in a few licks—part of...

A) I do NOT play bass with a pick. B) I try to lock in with the drummer when it works, but it's modern worship, so there are times when the job is just pounding the root.:angel: C) I probably do that. This guy is a just a 21 yo. kid, but he's a talented multi-instrumentalist / leader / song...

They put glamor shots of me front and center on the new church website. Invalid Link Removed Invalid Link Removed I'm sort of just happy I'm playing something other than a Telecaster or a Gretsch (bonus points for Floyd). Seems like it's all you ever see in these kinds of pictures. That bass...

Well, my gut says its not even with with the board effects and EQ, either, but I guess it could also be that the room EQ doesn't make for a good recording. The reason I think it's before board effects it that our sound guy mentioned that he uses as lot of reverb on the voices and things, but I...

lol. Nice Bass, though!

I always enjoy your church's worship. Being an EG refugee myself, I was struck by the skill of your EG guy this time. How long you had this guy? I really liked his solo in the first song anyway. Great performances all around, course. Good singers, completely pro piano guy, and I've got a soft...

I'm excited to hear the results, too, but it's going to take some time. The bow is undiscovered country for me. (And I need to see if we can find a better way to record our sets before I start posting them. I feel very unhappy about the recording quality at the moment. My impression is that the...

But sometimes, ridiculously complex music is rather good. I've been rocking out to this lately. There's a sort of danger of falling into a kind of "cult of simplicity", as much as a "cult of complexity"--the former is an easy excuse because it requires little discipline, while the latter can...

Yikes! K-LOVE might be pushing it even for me (though I haven't listened to them in ages). I was more thinking about the music the big churches are doing; Hillsong, Bethel, Vertical, CFNI, etc. I like those really dense arrangements they get going on with about 12 musicians on the stage.

Sometimes that's the job.

Hm... I love tom-heavy drum parts with less cymbols. Something about more "primative" or "tribal" sound. (probably not PC to use those words as synonyms anymore--I'm really just trying to describe a sound, not make a social comment) I was a huge Tool fanatic as a teen, and Justin Chancellor and...

I was scheduled for bass this week, be there was no guitar since the other EG guy quit, so the WL put out a call for more people to play. A bass player answered that call, so I got kicked back to EG. :crying: I'm trying to learn to be content doing EG every wekw, since it's all I'm ever...

Noise gate.

Pretty sure you have that one backwards.

Totally. The ultimate goal of the worship team is to facilitate the worship of the congregation, but, from an organizational perspective, there should also be an aspect of fostering talent.