The Greenroom

There are often moments in a worship set where someone is talking, praying or just waiting to go into the next song where we are tasked with playing background music. While there are no hard and fast rules on what you should play, here are a few ideas to keep you from becoming a distraction.

There’s more to being an auxiliary keyboard player than you think. All too often, keyboardists approach playing a secondary part like the primary, but if we’re not careful, this could be detrimental to what’s happening musically. So what should an aux keys player play? What sounds should they use? And what advice is there for playing ‘second fiddle?' Check it out here in this video blog.

Last month I had the opportunity to play drums for a night of worship that was recorded for a live record. There's not a lot of room for issues or mistakes on something like that, and we wanted everything to run flawlessly. It would have been much more challenging if I didn't play consistently. 

For the last few weeks, I’ve been on tour, playing drums for Austin French. For this tour, we tried a very different setup.

Sometimes we just forget to pay attention and let habits keep us in the dark. It's time to turn practice time into play time. 

Ryan King joins the podcast to discuss teaching music to kids.

Binley's Andrea Hamilton on worshipping through tragedy.

Bethel's Amanda Lindsey Cook joins the podcast to discuss clearing the noise and drawing close to God.

When we chose drums as our instrument, we signed up to be the leader of the rhythm section and that’s a vital role. As we go so the band goes. So how do imperfect people play in perfect time? Using a metronome or click track is a great place to start but it’s no substitute for developing your “internal click.” Here are a couple of training exercises to help you develop your internal metronome.