There is a normal level of work for getting ready for something, and then there's whatever I've got going on. Maybe it's my tendency to dive into commitments and start serious relationships with my work, but it seems like there's a lot I scoop on my plate for this. Don't get me wrong though most if it's pretty fun.
There's the obvious musical portion, which a normal human being might rehearse for, my nut ball self takes it a bit further. When I started teaching bass lessons I realized that I had to not just get how it worked, but understand how it worked. So thus I have been learning my music theory to a little different level than I had. rhythms, chord progressions, modes, scales and different techniques are all part of the deal now. Nevermind the volume and breadth of music (mainly bassists) I have been pumping into my brain.
While the music is important, having run a worship team at a college for a few years has drastically changed my understanding of how a worship team works, mainly in the spiritual and discipleship aspects of things. I have seen how true worship from the team changes the atmosphere. I have seen how 2 awful musicians (we got better) trusting in God get to see some unbelievable things both during the worship nights and outside of them.
What is the most amazing thing to me looking back, is really how much we would use phrases like, "We'll see what God can do." "It's up to God." Whatever God wants to do with it/us." We said these enough times that it probably sounded like a joke to those who didn't get it, but to us it was/is a way of life, a creed said in a sentence. This motivates me to foster the same attitude more and more in myself, especially heading into CTI.
Always groove responsibly
There's the obvious musical portion, which a normal human being might rehearse for, my nut ball self takes it a bit further. When I started teaching bass lessons I realized that I had to not just get how it worked, but understand how it worked. So thus I have been learning my music theory to a little different level than I had. rhythms, chord progressions, modes, scales and different techniques are all part of the deal now. Nevermind the volume and breadth of music (mainly bassists) I have been pumping into my brain.
While the music is important, having run a worship team at a college for a few years has drastically changed my understanding of how a worship team works, mainly in the spiritual and discipleship aspects of things. I have seen how true worship from the team changes the atmosphere. I have seen how 2 awful musicians (we got better) trusting in God get to see some unbelievable things both during the worship nights and outside of them.
What is the most amazing thing to me looking back, is really how much we would use phrases like, "We'll see what God can do." "It's up to God." Whatever God wants to do with it/us." We said these enough times that it probably sounded like a joke to those who didn't get it, but to us it was/is a way of life, a creed said in a sentence. This motivates me to foster the same attitude more and more in myself, especially heading into CTI.
Always groove responsibly
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