I'm a firm believer in using hindsight to have better foresight. My example, recordings of myself playing music or speaking, and rereading things I have written. Sometimes I'm genuinely satisfied with what I have done, its usually nothing spectacular, but if I don't want to hide the fact that it happened its all good.
There have been those times though when for a few days after the fact I just wanted to hide. A few examples include the first time CSS Campus Ministry had their praise and worship night. It was my friend Andrew (who's still playing it with me after nearly 5 years) my roommate Anthony, myself, and literally 2 people we grabbed to sing.
Long story short, we were awful, tempos all over the place, we could't play very well, and we had practiced for a few weeks. Andrew and I were both pretty well embarrassed and we took to really pushing ourselves on learning our instruments better. And what everyone in the room thought would be a first and last time for it, has turned into a very active ministry on campus that has even had a summer tour to 3 churches.
The reason I say this is two fold: 1. Don't take mistakes as a failure, learn from them, if you know what went wrong then you can fix it. and 2. This is a video of a recently formed rhythm duo called The Engine Room. Its made up of my friend Chris and myself, we were playing at a coffee house.
The point of it was to set a groove then have a bass solo then have a drum solo. Chris's solos sounded great, mine could use some work, but the grooves were good. So what did I learn? My grooves were good, I should do a little (lots) more planning of my solos, and someone needs to talk to the audience. I hope we get another shot to prove that we can be entertaining to watch as well as listen to.
so here it is. The Engine Room at The Ave Cafe
Please groove responsibly
There have been those times though when for a few days after the fact I just wanted to hide. A few examples include the first time CSS Campus Ministry had their praise and worship night. It was my friend Andrew (who's still playing it with me after nearly 5 years) my roommate Anthony, myself, and literally 2 people we grabbed to sing.
Long story short, we were awful, tempos all over the place, we could't play very well, and we had practiced for a few weeks. Andrew and I were both pretty well embarrassed and we took to really pushing ourselves on learning our instruments better. And what everyone in the room thought would be a first and last time for it, has turned into a very active ministry on campus that has even had a summer tour to 3 churches.
The reason I say this is two fold: 1. Don't take mistakes as a failure, learn from them, if you know what went wrong then you can fix it. and 2. This is a video of a recently formed rhythm duo called The Engine Room. Its made up of my friend Chris and myself, we were playing at a coffee house.
The point of it was to set a groove then have a bass solo then have a drum solo. Chris's solos sounded great, mine could use some work, but the grooves were good. So what did I learn? My grooves were good, I should do a little (lots) more planning of my solos, and someone needs to talk to the audience. I hope we get another shot to prove that we can be entertaining to watch as well as listen to.
so here it is. The Engine Room at The Ave Cafe
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