Weekend As a Worship Drummer!! // Vlog #17
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- FULL WORSHIP SET: • Full Church Worship Set!
FINALLY!! I got around to filming this vlog. I've been meaning to share how my normal weekend as a Worship Drummer / Musician usually goes. I hope you find this information entertaining or useful towards your career! Let me know what you think!
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Equipment:
Cymbals:
Hi Hats:
14" Zildjian K Custom Session Hi Hats
Rides:
21” Zildjian K Custom Special Dry Ride
Crashes:
17” Zildjian K Dark Thin Crash
19” Zildjian K Custom Special Dry Crash
20” Zildjian Crash of Doom
20” Zildjian Vintage Avedis Crash/Ride
18” Zildjian A Custom Crash
Splashes:
10" Zildjian A Splash
10" Zildjian K Splash
11" Zildjian Oriental Splash
Drums:
Pearl Session Studio Classic (10, 12, 16, 22 Kick, 14x5.5 Snare)
Pedal:
Tama Speed Cobra Single Pedal
Headphones:
MeeAudio M7 Pros
Mixer:
Behringer UFX 1604 Analogue Mixer/Interface.
Mics:
4 - SM57's - Snares and Toms
Beta 52 - Kick Drum
AKG P420 - Condensers
Cameras:
GoPro Hero 6
Canon Rebel T5i
Canon Rebel T7i
Software:
Pro Tools
Logic Pro X
Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Shoutout to all the other worship drummers who “practice” by listening to the song then figuring out the rest on the day..
Austin Coyne
My “practice” is showing up and studying the charts during sound check hahah
Yup that’s what my life consists of.... I have 5 services to play for each week and no time to hop on a set to practice them so I just basically listen to them once at home and then once on the way to the service ha! It can get stressful when it’s new
The only instrument where you can pull this off. Gotta love being a drummer!
Definitely do this haha. I devote all of my formal practice to working on technique, groove, feel, and adaptability. I feel like that is a better approach because when things change on the fly like they always do I can quickly use good foundational knowledge to adapt quickly to the new arrangement :)
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@9:00 Those HOLY Ghost notes bro...wow
Holy fuck. I didn’t even hear it til you said something lol. I’m not using my headphones. Good comment. Underrated with only 4 likes.
I was anticipating that since i read your comments and i agree 100%!!!
Oh yeah I caught those as well. Nice touch.
I am a church musician for 2 decades till now. Not been paid but it blessed me so much. I dont question being paid but serving without expecting anything in return made worship to Him more of a devotion rather than a service.
Who cares about God just give me the freakin money !!!
just kidding
American Gods come on green paper slips my dude
You mean you had a church gig that
-actually wanted you to play the snare
-actually was cool with fully open hi-hats
-didn't make you play the toms all the way until the last 45 seconds of song
-didn't make you click on the side of the tom for 3/4ths of the song
-didn't have only one energetic opener followed by 2 slow slow songs with 90% toms
????? What church have you found???
Emotional Relation they accept me regardless of how loud I play 🥺
@@DavidColaDrums True Christianity!! (Jk)
@@DavidColaDrums I was so glad to hear you played at church. I didn't know you believed!
Haha... 48 measures of tom build up, right? :)
@@DanMowry Apparently some people hear it as "the beat coming in", I don't hear it as a beat unless it has snare, and even then tom beats only make sense to be used for so long in a song to me!!😂😂
Ive been playing in my church band with the same guys (and lady) for 12 years. Definitely the one thing I look forward to every week
Same
Glad to see a church drummer not encased in plexiglass 😂
Yep. He has the cymbal shields in front of him, but that's really all that's needed.
Those plexiglass companies make a fortune on churches. Especially the churches who have just one of their own members playing drums because they’re cheap and don’t want to hire a real drummer. That’s usually the only time those drummers ever play is during church so they’re like Animal bashing the shit out of the drums and doing full measure fills every 4 measures.
exactly! so funny.
Well some churches do it to get proper eq and mixes soooo yeah they have reasons
Chrissy Martinez from my long experience as a church musician it’s because they use drummers out of their church who play loud, busy and generally very bad instead of spending a few bucks to hire a pro. That goes for any of the church member musicians. For a lot of them the only time they play is at church and they view it as their time to shine.
So cool hearing the cues in your monitors. Always wondered how that worked
Sounds like the voice cue from Ableton Live software. Sooooo handy.
Thru P16s
The k high hats. Just always a winner when I hear them.
I play 15" I sweet hats my guy they are a dream
Cole Sisler I’ve been searching g for a used set they are not cheap! But dang seem worth the price!
@@Chudhole Yessir!
David, thanks for this - so enlightening. As a 'small town covers-band' kind of guitar player, I've never played at the kind of professional level you're doing here... so hearing your 'in-ear' mix is like a whole new thing for a musician like me. Assuming that you're hearing it at the kind of level we're hearing it on this video then it really helps to see how it all works. I'd just love to be able to play in a band with in-ear monitoring... to control the level, keep it listenable to and actually be able to hear what I'm doing (for once!). Anyway, love the videos, thanks again. Look forward to seeing more.
My buddy! Great vid, thank you for keeping it real. It’s so good to see good clean drumming content coming from a great musician like yourself. Keep doing your thing brother. Blessings in all you do.
Wait... Some drummers get paid to serve at church!?!?
Idk man. My church sure don’t pay me😂
Big churches in big cities do yeah
The difference is both of you said "my church". This isn't the case of someone in the congregation just happens to know how to play drums and joined the band.
I played for the church i used to go to for 15 years, never received any pay...akd never charged them either
Playing 4-7 services through a weekend with the possibility of a mid-week rehearsal, is a huge ask for just volunteers.
As a drummer at my high school...that stick break was beautiful. lol
Drummer to drummer, I have to ask (and I’ve always wondered this), I see you have a chart and it’s not really a drum chart, but has cues. My question is, how coarse do you grind your coffee for the press? Thanks!
Peety In Jax great question ;p
or does he drink coffee?
I wold imagine he has a formula similar to mine. The more unfamiliar the songs, the stronger the coffee!
This is the real question. I'm wondering the same.
Two things:
1) Don’t microwave water for coffee; get an electric kettle.
2) how long did you steep the French press? 5 min max, ideally 4.
@@saarenkyla except talk to me in 20 years when all the 5G energy coming thru the microwaves into your coffee, turns you into a lizard person.
Dude, continue this weekend vlog, i love it!
As a keys player I can say that there’s nothing more stressful than listening to a song for the first time on the way to sound check
That tripped me out. Your WL said "Welcome to Seacoast..." and I was like, wait. I am a worship leader and musician at Seacoast Church in Charleston, SC - I did not recognize this campus, haha.
This was cool to watch, and very familiar. I play drums for my church. We use a Dr Beat but not typically a full backing track. I actually have the Dr Beat and foot pedals to operate it in the drum cage with me, so I'm still fully in control of the flow of things. I use lead sheets instead of charts and just make notes on where the dynamics are. We do three services on Sunday mornings, with the second being on live stream. Because it's just a thing I volunteer to do I sometimes forget that I have years and years of performance experience and a large catalogue of recorded "shows." Church drumming is a great way to essentially "get reps" as a musician.
I'm a church drummer. I don't read charts or even practice songs. The preacher sings it on stage and at that very moment i have to think of a beat! That's why i do many mistakes while playing...
Edit: I'm playing for a small church btw.. Not one of those big mega churches
Great VLOG! Gives a wonderful insight into what goes on behind the scenes. Those charts are amazing!
Hi David, I've grown as a church drummer and truly inspired by your journey and all that you do. I love your approach to playing and your willingness to share your knowledge. All the best and look forward to more videos.
"David you played great! We love you, please join our Chorch!"
Dude i was looking forward to seeing the breakfast burritos! LOL- Great chops! Keep up the good work you're a monster player!
Looks similar to my prep but without sheet music.
Thanks for the inspiration David. You rock brother! 🥁
Hello accidentally ran across your channel, u were on a Cruze ship, then worship gig, I am a bassist of 45 years, but a worship player for 2.5 years, it's really cool to follow you, you are very blessed and talented, great personality, thanks for sharing PEACE
Showing up Sunday morning for rehearsal/practice and improving as I go. Yup pretty much the story of my life lol😂
I’m a catholic and as soon as I saw this I thought” Welp, this doesn’t look like my type of chorch”
The sound of that snare is goals
Wow. So spot on. Exactly what it is like as a worship drummer. Get the charts learn the part and have a positive attitude.
its so amazing that i heard him playing with the star cymbal and i could just feel you ooze church drummer then i saw this video 😁
All good and well David. Love your content...but do you know Jesus personally? That’s the one question worth answering
Jesse Camera And of course he needs to be asked that question because him being a paid musician probably doesn’t right? 🙄
Actually Giovanni, he needs to be asked because it’s a matter of his soul’s eternity as well as yours. Do you know Jesus?
I do and preach it weekly but it’s pretentious of you to put yourself at higher spiritual plane by asking “do you know Jesus personally?”.
Awsom..around 38 years ago i was playing a church i went to at the time..the guitar player was really good he was once a rock guitar player so he kinda played with a rock feel it sounded great..and to play drums to him and for it to sound good i had to play a bouncy beat With a rock feel to it after we played i was told you cant play rock and roll here..i wasent playing rock and and roll i was giveing a song a beat that Was right for the song..thay wanted a plain beat that dident sound right to the song...so its awsom to see someone alowed 2 play drums in church the way god intended for them to be played in all their Glory.. I no longer. Play it hurts my legs in the shins and it hurts my hands 2..but i loved watching u play..keep up the good work..
Great videos David. Curious how you record the audio for these gigs (click, band audio) that you then use in your videos. Any chance of doing a video on that? I know this is an older video but I came back to this as it’s a good one 🤘🏼
Love the channel!! Always look forward to your next one!!
As a WL, I internally was screaming seeing how he prepares 😂😂
Great vid dude
Different people learn at different rates. A pro will sight read at a much higher level than a practiced amateur.
This video just popped up in my youtube feed since I have been learning worship songs for the church I now play drums for, but then I realized that your name sounded REALLLY familiar. BOOM, I just saw you in a ZackGrooves video from today (6/30/22) doing the drummer guessing! Super cool!
I am a self taught drummer for 20 years, but since I have joined this church I have been striving to finally learn more regarding reading music and charts as well as more chops and whatnot. Thankfully I have been playing to a click and recording my own music with my 2 kits for years so it's an easy transition into this field.
David - You are definitely an inspiration to us Working Christian Musicians. Thanks for Giving back this little piece of your life :-) It's Really Appreciated. Oh, You are an amazing Drummer Very Professional and Keep Giving back :-). Hey, I think it's ok for you to spread your Religious beliefs :-)
nice. thank for the insight and peek into the view of a worship musician. God's love and blessings sir!!!
Missed a lick around 7:00 looked like he said, "Fuck" 😂
Love 'Great Things!' awesome song really like that floor Tom thang you did before the outro 🔥
It's not just "reading" the chart it's having the ability to perform immediately what's on the chart ie; making each of 4 limbs do what is required independently , that is very professional...
Amazing videos bro, God bless and know his glory is always around us!!!! You have passion and so did Jesus Christ !!!!🙌🙌🙌🙌💙🇺🇸 Stand Firm and be strong!!!!
I'm a worship guitarist and it was cool to see a similar experience when you're playing at church! That second song is one we do too. Great vid. Keep it up.
So cool to watch worship from this aspect, glad I stumbled onto this! Awesome bro! Keep em coming!
GOD❤❤❤ BLESS bro nice to play for our FATHER❤❤❤. thx for sharing you're very good
I know right the music director makes a world of a difference when they send charts 🙌🏾 it helps so much when you have little to zero time to rehearse
Absolutely, when the charts are as shown in Dave's video. However, "charts" to many churches today are lyrics with letters written over them. NO measures, NO notations.
dang those transitions are nice 👌🏻
I know that's right brother Pearl the best reason why I play drums 💪🥁
Is there anything more satisfying than slowly pushing down the plunger on the French press? :) You know it's gonna be a good morning!
I’m a new subscriber and I am glad I subscribed. Your content is really good and I use to play in church. Right now I just make drum covers on my channel and your video on lighting in your drum room was very helpful and I thank you!
i didnt even know the chart stuff existed lol. i'd just show up and play the set. but we would also play the song a little differently a lot of times.
very cool, very professional. thanks for sharing. Have you tried lowering your ride cymbal a little? Just saying (as a drummer who just turned 40) your right shoulder will thank you many years from now!
I’m not a drummer but much respect. You kept it real and vlogged your experience lol. Love how people got worked up that he called it a “gig” or that he got paid. He has to carry his very expensive and heavy equipment from location to location, travel, practice on his own (if needed), rehearsal/sound check with live band and then actually perform. But everyone wants to criticize this talented dude and say they wouldn’t accept pay lol. Ok but you probably don’t have to do multiple “gigs” so you probably are not getting offered the same amount of money either.
Jorge Gomez I appreciate that Jorge! I never meant it with any disrespect. But hey, as a normal human in LA, most people have to make 3-4K a month live comfortably. And when musicians can make as little as $75-100 per gig for 8-12 hours of work and struggle to find more gigs in a town over populated with musicians it gets pretty difficult. So taking about 12-14 hours out of my weekend for no pay wouldn’t be the most viable option for me to afford rent, let alone any other predicament that may arise. Some horrible drivers here 😅
Great playing, man. I don’t know how you learn songs so quickly. Very impressive!
Great video! I'm also a worship drummer and it's super interesting to see it from another persons perspective. I'm also the same way, I'll listen through the music a couple days before and maybe sit down on the kit and work some things out if it's new but lately I've had my kit packed up and just work things out mentally and actually play through on a kit for the first time during practice.
I started playing for a smaller church with a super tight very talented band. It was amazing. I have played in bigger churches with bigger bands and even though the sound can be fuller and technically better, it just doesn't have the same feel. When you play with a smaller group, everyone has to play so much tighter and it makes you a better musician and makes you connect with the band so much better. I now go to a pretty big church and still fill in once a month at my old smaller church and the smaller church is def where I feel more into it. We also don't play click tracks or anything at the small church and it's more raw and natural and we follow direction from one another and it's just more organic.
Thanks for sharing! You're a great drummer!
David I love that snare! What is it? would mind telling me how do you usually tune your bottom heads and how you adjust how much tension on the snare please? Awesome video and Playing!
I was looking forward to the breakfast burritos!!!
Love this! Do more worship drummer content!
nah bro spit out your beliefs bring glory to Him 🙏🙏🙏
Funny enough my Sunday superstition is I have to eat a breakfast burrito before services that I'm playing in. Great minds thinking alike.
Hey David, thanks for the insight. I dig seeing into the shows and hearing from your experience. Thanks for sharing!
I was wondering what camera you usually use for live footage, like in this video? And do you use the camera inbuilt mike or have an extra one with you for better quality? Cheers
I don’t play the drums but I love your channel! Keep up the great work!
Hi David! Great playing! I am just now seeing this video. Very cool vlog! Can you tell me what you're using in your practice space for your laptop and mixing board? Thanks in advance.
Thanks a lot David I really got a lot out of this video and it’s very gracious of you to share the day in the life of a church drummer. I found the video both informative and inspiring please continue posting such amazing content! Peace and love,
-Bishop Bautista
Its always been my passion to play drums, I hope that I would play at our church someday, in GOD'S Will.
You'll get it, man!!!!
@@DrumLuv23 Thanks, man! With GOD's Grace and Mercy, I am now playing the Cajon at our small church 😇😊 Stay safe and GOD bless you!! JESUS Loves you so much!! May HIS Peace be with you!
Tasty chops bro! Watched a few video's and enjoy your playing.
Hi David, I have been watching you for a couple of years now, not sure of dates though. I loved the CHUCH gig. Does that church have sermons and services that I can access, glad that you have settled in LA, not sure about vanilla coffee though!! You are a fantastic drummer and I hope that you get blessed with more great gigs to work at. PS Liked the Arianne playback 'Boyfriend' you made it sound even better.
Hi David! So enjoy to watch you on your drums! I wish my life is just doin' what you are doin' now as a full time drummer(coz' that's my passion). I am a worship drummer too :) but need to learn more on reading music chart and all that stuff! Anyway, keep inspire bro 👍
As a worship drummer myself, well done sir
Dude that's awesome you read sheet music! It sounds super hard to do that, because i play by ear.
love your videos,thanks for all you do brother!
Nice video, I too am a church worship drummer and I don't have the luxury of technology, I get the music sheets of a song and listen to the rest of the band play it one time through without me and I write in "notes" on the sheets as the band plays as to what I need to play or what sounds good then we play it..
Since when did Reed Silverstein start rocking a pony tail and a white strat ?? haha jk awesome video David! I appreciate how you showed the part in your practice session where you had to take a moment and work out that part. So you ARE human like the rest of us lol cheers dude
I really enjoyed your playing. Keep doing your thing.
The best church md’s are the type that send out charts like this. The one at my current gig just sends out a packet of charts...every tune in order, boom. Assuming you have experience and reading chops, all you have to do is show up and play...it’s a great gig.
Nice 🔥 but I was looking for the deep snare CCM sound tho. Still smackin
I find these videos interesting as it shows the lead up and background to a performance, thanks
This whole music-by-numbers/click is completely foreign to me... but the results are good tempo and a very solid live presentation so... I have to get behind that! More curious about the 3 x plexi shields in front of you and the band... pretty arbitrary IMO... (BTW, I appreciate the time compression edits)
LanceCampeau When plexi-shields are used like that it’s just to keep the cymbals from bleeding into the vocal mics in front
lol he totally said "fuck" at 7:04 lord strike him now
Are those audio cues "Outro, Intro, Chorus" do you program those onto your click track yourself, or does the sound guy do those? And are they for all the musicians, or just for you?
Generally theyre put in place by either the tech or band leader of respective bands.
It sounds like Ableton, I think my WL downloads the song w/ any loops and the audio cues are already programmed into it. If we road map off the cues we either ignore them or cut them out and use a talk back. Anyone with the in ear monitors would hear them.
I found thid kind of Videos very interesting. To see how yopu prepare for a "bread an butter" gig and how long that take with learning the songs etc. Very professional done!
I definitely don't miss SoCal traffic. Awesome video dude!
Have been enjoying your vlogs!!
Maaaaan!!! That is some tight drumming 😱😱😱😱😱😱🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hey, David, awesome video! I've subscribed immediately to your channel! I have a question. What kind of software are you using that says to you in behind which song part follows next and puts the metronome in your in-ear monitors? Thanks in advance!
I knew there is some work to being a drummer but i had no idea.
Great stuff
Thank you for making the Cruises people pay a grip for more enjoyable.
Also
I always thought the "Chuch" band was all volunteer. I had no idea you all get paid. To me.... that makes complete sense.
Good job at knowing your value.
It depends on the church. Some are volunteer, some pay
54 degrees is definitely not freezing my friend haha 😂Had to drive to soundcheck after a blizzard in sub-zero temps many times here in Omaha, NE! 😭
I read this comment and thought 54 degrees Celsius. Makes a lot more sense in Fahrenheit lol
I think I might start reading more for church...I've NEVER had to read charts for CCM music bc they all sound exactly the same with the same beats and simple chord progressions... Pentecostal drummers also tend to have a very high retention for remembering complex parts bc those services are basically 3 hours of spontaneous jazz fusion. CCM music is definitely a great way to sharpen reading bc it's soooo easy to chart out.
CHOECH DRUMMER 🤣Love it! (did I spell "choech" correctly?)
Waiiiit, I just saw your post again. I thought you in cruise ship.. it’s a cool thing you serve the awesome God, Dave.
Looking for a church to visit during my stay in December. What church is this? Also, you totally killed it at See a Victory and This is a Move!
hey... greetings from Brazil... very cool to see how familiar is your routine in the weekends playing at church. How many drummers in a church like that? I don't think you play every weekend right? Do you have fixed band members - always playing with same people - or you just fits in some band as a drummer in the weekend you gonna play? keep it up, God bless you!
Have to have more than one drummer. The other guy lost the wing nuts and top felts. Lol!
Nice vid David. Is Luke Hesher out there with y’all?
Awesome drumming
Have you ever tried to use low tuning on the snare? Btw, nice vid👌🏼
Some snares that dont carry good body arent ideal for low tuning in church. They just end up having a fat slappy dead sound, which is a dope sound just not necessarily in church.
Cole Sisler I’ve tried this tuning last Sunday it actuallly sounded good . It was low but not to loose with bottom heads really tight
Great vid. What metronome app do you use?
Maybe a silly question but I'll ask anyways. Is that talking voice pre-recorded? How do you capture sound of surrounding and click track simultaneously ? Ok I know that it could be added in post but I think it's not the case
I'm not religious at all, but I would honestly go just to hear you drum. So tight!
You should consider it, it might change your life
We get some of our stem packages from MultiTracks and have the same voice that we have lovingly named “Cinnamon”.
That's hilarious. I've never thought of naming the voices in a click track.
"This is 54 degrees outside today, it's freezing"
Me as a french boi : wtf
David, man, you gotta tell me what song is at 13:30...whether it's the time signature, the mood of the congregation, or the notes.....or all 3. Just a beast of a song, I can totally feel the band's overall groove