So how do you make great music and build
a better worship band that listens to
one another and doesn't overplay? Well
there's an analogy that I like to use that
really helps everyone to understand
their role in the band. Hey, it's Dave Dolphin
from practicalworshipblog.com, sharing
ideas, tips and practical advice for the
everyday worship leader. We all want
our worship bands to sound good.
We we drive around in the cars, we listen
to music, maybe listen to the mp3 at home.
We're inspired by the music that we hear,
and then on Sunday mornings we try to
emulate that. And we have the same
instrumentation, we have drums and bass
and guitars and things like that. We're
playing the same chords, but sometimes
what we heard on the mp3 isn't
necessarily what's coming out of the PA
speakers on a Sunday morning, and we're
shaking our heads and scratching our
heads and trying to figure out why. I
think part of the problem is that in the
context of worship ministry it's made up
of members a lot of times that aren't
used to playing with other people. For
example you've got the guitar player
that's a high school kid, comes home
after school and plays electric guitar
on the edge of his bed and that's his
context. Or the piano player that is used
to playing the piano in her living room
by herself, but you put them all together
in a room playing in a band, they may not
know or realize or how to play with one
another, because that context is
different. So the analogy that I like to
use when I'm working with teams is that
music is like a pie, like you would eat
at Thanksgiving. If you're a one-man show,
if you're the only member of the band,
well then you get the whole pie. But
let's say you're a three-piece. You have
drums, you have bass and you have one
guitar. Well you have to cut that pie
into three pieces. Now those are pretty
still very large pieces, but let's say
now we have drums and bass, two guitars
and a keyboard player. Well now we have
to cut those pieces into smaller pieces,
into five pieces, because I think the
mistake that many teams make is that as
you add more people we think that the
pie gets bigger, but it doesn't. The pie
always stays the same size, so you have
to cut the pieces smaller. That means
that the amount of notes that you play,
what you contribute
to the band as an individual musician,
has to get less and less because the
size of the pie, the arrangement, the song,
the music doesn't get any bigger. Now the
pieces of the pie don't all have to be
the same size. They can change depending
on the band, they can change depending on
the song, even dependent on a certain
section of the song. For example if you
have a song that's real piano-driven,
then their piece of the pie is probably
going to be a little bit bigger. If you
have a really guitar-driven song,
their piece of pie is going to be
bigger. If you've got a section of a song
that really features the drums, then
their piece of pie for that section
of the song is going to be bigger. A
great example of this is from the band
Dave Matthews Band. When they were
first starting out in the mid 90s and
coming on the scene, they had a song
called "What Would You Say" Their
drummer, Carter Beauford... Dave
Matthews is known for playing really
technical, that's kind of
their thing, and Carter Beauford's
really good at what he does. And so there's
this kind of cool little groove that he
establishes for the song, but when it's
time for the saxophone solo in the
middle of a song, what does Carter do? He
actually straightens out. He's not as
syncopated, he's not playing as many
notes on the kick drum, he is making room
for the saxophone who has to have a
section of this pie. Then when the
saxophone solo's done he goes back to a
little bit more of a busy pattern with
his kick, because he's
getting that piece of the pie back. So if
there's more people in the band and the
size of your piece of the pie is getting
smaller, that means you need to play less.
You need to play less notes. What
you're going to contribute to the band,
to the arrangement is going to be less,
because you're making room for other
people to contribute as well. What
that means, if you're a drummer, that means
you're probably going to simplify your
kick patterns a little bit or simplify
your fills or play less fills—play
fills less often in the song. If you're a
bass player and those kick patterns are
simplifying, well that's going to
simplify what you do. If you're an electric
guitar player, maybe there's two in the
band, the first thing I would do is I
would establish
who's going to be in what sonic space.
In a lot of bands you have a rhythm
electric player and you have a lead
electric player. So the rhythm electric
player is going to play lower on the
neck, probably have that wall of sound,
lots of drive on their guitar, and they're
just going to play chords. Instead of
going to ching ching ching ching ching
ching, they're probably going to just
play whole notes, just play that note,
let it ring, let it sing and then when
the chord changes play it again. If
you're a lead electric player then
you're probably going to play higher up on
the neck and you're going to do more
kind of chimy, melodic stuff—ear candy—
those kinds of things. You might only
play two, three, four notes over and over
and over. However, it's those two or three
or four notes that really make that song,
that arrangement, work. If you're a
keyboard player one of the best things
you can do is sit on your left hand and
play a majority of your notes in the
right hand, and/or maybe you play one
note with your left hand and in the right
hand, insteading of playing the full chord—
the one, three and the five—
maybe take one of those notes out. Play
the one and the five or play the one and
the three or play the three and then play the
one up here, so that you have a lot of
space. Instead of banging out all these
different chords and playing all these
different notes, take some of those notes
out within the chords, because they're
still going to be played by maybe other
instruments. You don't
have to play the third, because someone
else in the band might be playing the
third. So hopefully that analogy helps,
that when you're working with your teams
and you're trying to get them to not
overplay you can describe music
as a pie and that as you add more people
the pie doesn't get any bigger so the
pieces that you cut up from the pie have
to get smaller. Well here at Practical
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