Didn’t know where else to post this except for here…..
The lead guitar player from our “Old Dude” blues jam band had to bow out because his wife is now in the hospital with serious MS, and when she is able to come back home, he will need constantly need to be with her in order to attend to her needs.
Although we hate to see him leave our group, we are all praying for him and his family, and we are all glad to know that his priorities are straight and in order….
Although he’ll be a hard act to follow, both the drummer and myself (we started our group) are faithful in knowing that somewhere down here in the farmlands and orchards of middle (very) rural Georgia, is another answer to prayer….
Thanks all..!!.. our drummer and myself are set to get together and reset…. I’m sure we’ll be looking for another lead, but after some discussion, we’ve decided to get right back to basics with our rhythm and work it hard together with what we’ve got right now - percussion and bass…..
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Im glad I found this thread. Playing bass has been something I have thought about for the last 35ish years but never thought it would happen. I didn’t consider myself musically literate and had no clue how to read sheet music. But back in November I felt the nudge, like now is the time, you need to learn. I borrowed the 4 string fretless Yamaha from my church to see if I would even like it. I eventually bought a Squier P bass and since then i had this feeling that I will end up on stage at church. We don’t have much if a worship team at the moment, just a piano player and several singers and an occasional drummer. Several years ago we had more of a worship team with drums and guitar and piano, but no bass. The worship leader asked if anyone was interested in learning. I thought hey this is my change but procrastinated and someone else stepped in. I started B2B on Feb 1 and I am really enjoying it. I will have read more of the comments when I get a moment. It was interesting to read that a worship team plays different than a band, and after reading that I can see that in previous performances. One day the team leader decides to change it up. And also extended playing time during intro to prayer or transitions between songs and prayer time and announcements, etc… Anyway I have rambled on enuf, I have another module and lesson to learn….
I got into bass in a similar way! My wife is a classically trained concert pianist who also runs our music department at church. She was hurting for a competent bass player, and I’d always wanted to try my hand at something that was in the cello ballpark. So bass it was!
I’ll never be her caliber of musician, but it’s been fun to step at least a toe or two into her world.
There’s some super talented people on our worship team and I get super self-conscious that I’m nowhere near their level, but it’s fun and I’m glad to have the opportunity to play (and sing).
At my church they have a pretty large band. The church could be described as a mega church, I don’t really know how that is defined. The instrument section consists of the following
2 keyboards/piano
2 electric guitar
2 or 3 acoustic guitars
1 drummer
1 bass
I don’t attend every week but I try to watch online to the live sermon, and I have never seen the bass player miss a day. I’ve seen different guitarist step in, but bass player is there.
Do you practice together outside of church? My wife just got a keyboard after many years not playing and we want to play a few songs together just for fun. If you do practice together, what songs? I’m about a year into learning - looking for easy songs of this genre.
Sometimes! I’m actually on a different team to split up kid duty on Sunday mornings. But usually when she’s rehearsing for her Sundays I’ll play along with her song selection. We really enjoy the up-tempo, swingier songs. “His Mercy Is More” is one of our favorites.
Hymns are a whole other beast, where I’m actually playing the the vocal bass line most of the time. It’s helped a bunch with ear training and what sounds good from a harmony rather than chord progression perspective.