How many playing early Easter services today?

[Miles_ONeal]

It wasn’t a sunrise service, but I had to be here at 6am. Thankfully I have a bass that matches the Easter theme.

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Thankfully, we don’t do sunrise services (I am not a morning person!)
However, I used my purple Thunderbird during Lent and my white Thunderbird this morning for liturgical color reasons. I don’t have a green bass, but I do color match the calendar for special seasons.

 

[basspraiser]

Not early... But the 10:30 service.

Was a great service and set today .... Very energetic!..

We are blessed to be recently joined by a professional musician.... He is an awesome guitarist!

I love our other guitarists but this guy has a f yes mm great style!

 

[Pdaddy1978]

I played for two services this morning, along with an orchestra... we have a lot of musicians in our church. I was plunked in amongst the low brass today. Here's my view from Saturday's rehearsal... had to peer around the tuba to see the conductor!

Happy Easter, all!


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Do you and the Tuba player use the same chart?

 

[basspraiser]

Do you and the Tuba player use the same chart?

Great question!

Certain services... We hire a sousaphone player... He also plays bass ( both pretty well)

So I don't get to play those weekends

 

[robert_stuart]

Played last night, three more services to go today

Do you have any performances on video? I'd like to see what kind of music you do there.

 

[joeLowB]

Do you and the Tuba player use the same chart?

Really interesting you should ask, as I could lean the other way (from my photo's angle) and read his music clearly. And I actually thought about that very plan.

As it happened, of the three songs on which I played, one was new to me and so I printed off the piano/vocal sheets, all 14 pages. And I played the bottom line of the piano plan. At rehearsal, our pianist recognized I was doing that, thanked me profusely! She said she'd let me handle those and she focused higher on the keyboard. That worked very well for us both and I think served the song well.

The other two songs on which I played we've done many times before and I had our usual lead sheets, from which I played.

But, to your question, the tuba had his own orchestration of those two songs. I did not connect those dots until this morning. I could well have played that orchestrated music.

In retrospect, I think injecting the slightly different timbre of the bass added texture vs the tubas and trombone. Not, that I'm biased, of course

Great question!

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[urkel3000]

Do you have any performances on video? I'd like to see what kind of music you do there?

Just got home, this is from today. I'd say we are typically pretty loud and bassy and energetic. Was blessed to play with a choir today. My 20lb pedal board was vibrating across the stage lol




This is a couple months ago

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Really interesting you should ask, as I could lean the other way (from my photo's angle) and read his music clearly. And I actually thought about that very plan.

As it happened, of the three songs on which I played, one was new to me and so I printed off the piano/vocal sheets, all 14 pages. And I played the bottom line of the piano plan. At rehearsal, our pianist recognized I was doing that, thanked me profusely! She said she'd let me handle those and she focused higher on the keyboard. That worked very well for us both and I think served the song well.

The other two songs on which I played we've done many times before and I had our usual lead sheets, from which I played.

But, to your question, the tuba had his own orchestration of those two songs. I did not connect those dots until this morning. I could well have played that orchestrated music.

In retrospect, I think injecting the slightly different timbre of the bass added texture vs the tubas and trombone. Not, that I'm biased, of course

Great question!

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Bass, tuba, and trombone can be very effective together.

 

[covermego]

I got there at 6:00am for rehearsal with the "volunteer choir" - approx 15 men and women who rotate in and out of our regular worship services.
Meanwhile, sunrise service was outdoors at 6:30AM while we practiced (used to be about 50 folks showing up, but this year it was almost 500 !!).
Our indoor services were 8:00, 9:30, 11:15 and 1:30. Played all 4. I'm the oldster on the team. Came home and took an Easter nap.
Played my Ibanez Mezzo 5; Seafoam Pearl green, maple neck, white MOP pickguard....... relatively Easter-ish.
Welp, before this day ends.............. Happy Easter !!

 

[JamesGrant]

Just got home, this is from today. I'd say we are typically pretty loud and bassy and energetic. Was blessed to play with a choir today. My 20lb pedal board was vibrating across the stage lol




This is a couple months ago

There you are - on telly!! I often wonder about this kind of church that you see on YouTube and now I’ve got someone to ask!! I hope you don’t mind?

How many people in the audience/congragation?

Is the venue the church’s or do you have to dress it from scratch every week?

What’s the financials, who gets paid? Do you get paid, the sound guy? It all looks super pro - and there’s bonkers serious money on stage.

Do people know each other and hang out or is it like going to a theatre and then going home again?

Is it fun or does it feel like work? I imagine it takes a lot of time and energy and likely consumes a full day?

 

[urkel3000]

There you are - on telly!! I often wonder about this kind of church that you see on YouTube and now I’ve got someone to ask!! I hope you don’t mind?

How many people in the audience/congragation?

Is the venue the church’s or do you have to dress it from scratch every week?

What’s the financials, who gets paid? Do you get paid, the sound guy? It all looks super pro - and there’s bonkers serious money on stage.

Do people know each other and hang out or is it like going to a theatre and then going home again?

Is it fun or does it feel like work? I imagine it takes a lot of time and energy and likely consumes a full day?

I don't mind answering questions at all!

The auditorium seats 1000, we have three services every Sunday. Typically the first service is like 80% capacity, second service is more like 90-95%, third service is like 60%. Second service yesterday was maxed out, there were probably 50 people in the overflow room watching on a monitor, and 50 more hanging out in the lobby listening to the sermon over the speakers.

The venue is ours, it's in a strip mall and the size of a large nightclub.

We have one drummer that gets paid, and one keyboardist that gets paid, a worship leader that gets paid, and an MD that gets paid. Everyone else donates their time. If anyone else were to get paid it would probably be me but I'm happy to do it for free. Sound guy gets paid too

We all get along great, we are all busy with life so we don't hang out too much but we are all pals

It absolutely feels like work... The best job on the planet. I wish I could do it every day instead of just 6-8 times a month. It's incredibly fun and intrinsically rewarding!

 

[JOME77]

I did 3 services (1 Saturday evening, 2 Sunday morning). The real issue was that we were hosting our family Easter lunch so my wife and I had to prepare everything (physically) Friday and Saturday and since my wife sings in the choir, we had to get up at 5:30 (call time 7:45 30 miles away) and she had to rush home after the 11:00 choir performance) and finish lunch.
Long but blessed weekend!

 

[brianrost]

Wow, it’s been about 30 years since I was in the church choir, first only playing bass, then ditching the bass and singing baritone.

It was a Catholic church, the big deal all through Lent was we could not sing anything with “hallelujah” in it until Easter. So that was the day when we got to really let loose. The choir disbanded after a new pastor was brought in and he had zero interest in supporting the choir in any way after the organist quit. My wife and I left the parish after that and I haven’t played in a church since then.

 

[Element Zero]

My wife played bass for service along with our amazing pianist. She lead a song and had our kids and some other kids in attendance up on stage to sing Raise A Hallelujah. I am on graveyard shift this week so I was asleep at home and couldn’t attend. BUT she played her StingRay through the church amp (an at least 20 year old Fender Bassman 100) and told me she never wants to play through anything other than our Mesa rig ever again lol.