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Aaron posed these couple of questions. Please give us your perspective.
1. What are we doing to effectively syncopate our instruments—hitting the bass (root) notes with the kick beats, etc…?
2. What can we do to better the marriage between the bass guitar and drums?
3. Playing standard bass notes or a standard beat (simple, not busy) might not be that “fun,” but is it more effective?
We look forward to your responses!
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2 comments:
I think if the base and drums work together more it would be awesome. I love how kevin plays with the kick and every now and then with the Toms. It really adds to the songs, and emphasizes the strong points in the songs.
When I was playing bass one of my mentors, a drummer named Kirk gave me some great advice. Here is some of the wisdom he gave me:
1. The bass' main mission is to clothe the kick drum or provide a musical pitch or note to layer on top of the thump or thud of the kick. He would always say, clothe the kick.
2. The second thing he taught me was that when it comes to push beats, if the drummer pushes a beat or does a hard crash in a certain place, the bass must follow. It is important in these times to lock in or one of the two will be standing alone.
3. The drummer is the leader of the rhythm section. If I ever thought something was cool, I would tell and or show the drummer. If he/she liked it in a certain spot and then decided to play that push or that fill, then I got to do it. If not, no. We build from the bottom up after the leader(worship pastor) sets the parameters or direction.
4. The groove is the most important thing. When the congregation is worshipping they do not notice every fill or rhythm. They will however be distracted from worship if we are not LOCKED IN. Worship in terms of musical worship is spiritual, emotional and physical. We must be careful to enable all these aspects to worship w/o distraction.
That's all for now.
Dan
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