Sunday Evening Musings

*sigh* I am happy.

I played drums today at church for the first time in a couple years. I don't know how well I did (I think I did awesome actually, but I don't know if I was just hearing what I wanted to hear or what), but it was sure fun to get back up there and beat on the skins.

No, not the forskins. Ass.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun. We didn't have a bass player, which kinda sucked, but we did have a good sound guy who was able to make up for it (as best as you can - you really don't want to be stuck without a bass player) in the EQ. I dug out my trusty snare drum and put a new batter-head on it, and took it for a ride. I love the drum - it's a Yamaha 14' X 4' copper-shelled picolo - got a great crack to it with nice warm overtones, but that's assuming I can tune it properly. It's been a while and I was never very good to begin with.

I'm going to talk to an instructor and see what kind of tips they may have to offer.