My Sunday Morning....

[Jack FFR1846]

I wanted to just give you my morning.

So we rotate musicians around which always makes for unique challenges. Lately, we've had 2 electric players along with an acoustic. Definately more challenge and coordination so we don't both take the lead at the same time and so we blend together. (both took the same lead this morning in rehersal before service......sorted that one out).

Rehersal went well and we were straight once we finished, so all was good. The message was split into 2 for some reason. Well, so it was planned. We watch the service in the music room before we hit the stage. Paster is going over time. Ok. No biggie. Hmm....6 minutes over....12 minutes over. We get on finally and do 2 songs, skip the 3rd. Worship director tells me to keep everyone in place after these 2, skipping the 2nd message and then doing the other 2 planned. I tell the few I can get to without being too disruptive. Leader decides we're leaving anyways, so we follow him out. Ok...we have time to re-enter. Get back on and do the next song.....that's all we have time for.

Second service, I have the intro lead on the second song. Forget it completely, but my notes in front of me have the frets I'm starting on, so I wing a first time through the solo, remember it and second time through, do what I had planned to. Hahaha. Pretty funny now anyways. End up doing 4 out of the 5.

Great skit both. We have these new cards to invite people to service and he's talking all about it and says "like a Capitol One card"......2 vikings burst out of the side doors scaring the crap out of all of us (we didn't know that was coming). Funniest skit I've ever seen.

Anyways....in the end, it worked out fine and I think we're the only ones who knew that it was not even close to our plan. I did have fun, and am laughing about the whole thing now.

weeeeeeee

[mrboson]

I seem to enjoy the spontaneous chaos that sometimes shows up during worship services. Stories like yours make me laugh too, this would be hard to do regularly otherwise.

Some of my favorite mixups include the worship lead forgetting to remove the capo he used on the previous song, and all the rest of us quickly figuring out we need to start transposing in our head (happens often). There's this other time our lead singer starts a song a capella then I am supposed to play an intro lead before he starts singing again, but I started on the wrong fret, play the whole riff, and he gets this puzzled look then says loud enough for the mic to pickup for everyone in the room to hear, "yeah, that's not working for me"... I wanted to die...

Anyway, sorry to hijack your story with some of my own... but I love hearing about this stuff.

[jb12string]

Lucky you. I was supposed to play this morning, woke up at 5:?? feeling like somebody hit me with a left hook beside my ear/top of my jaw area, then the kids woke up and didn't want to go back to sleep. Fortunately, my wife took the kids downstairs and I finally fell back to sleep, I vaguely remember her asking me if I was planning on going to church, I said no and woke up at 9 something, rolled over for another minute and woke up at 10. So it all worked out, had a nice relaxing day of rest at home, but the "band" was a piano and drums, and it was by far my favorite drummer to play with.

[brownsmith]

Originally Posted by Jack FFR1846

I wanted to just give you my morning.

So we rotate musicians around which always makes for unique challenges. Lately, we've had 2 electric players along with an acoustic. Definately more challenge and coordination so we don't both take the lead at the same time and so we blend together. (both took the same lead this morning in rehersal before service......sorted that one out).

Rehersal went well and we were straight once we finished, so all was good. The message was split into 2 for some reason. Well, so it was planned. We watch the service in the music room before we hit the stage. Paster is going over time. Ok. No biggie. Hmm....6 minutes over....12 minutes over. We get on finally and do 2 songs, skip the 3rd. Worship director tells me to keep everyone in place after these 2, skipping the 2nd message and then doing the other 2 planned. I tell the few I can get to without being too disruptive. Leader decides we're leaving anyways, so we follow him out. Ok...we have time to re-enter. Get back on and do the next song.....that's all we have time for.

Second service, I have the intro lead on the second song. Forget it completely, but my notes in front of me have the frets I'm starting on, so I wing a first time through the solo, remember it and second time through, do what I had planned to. Hahaha. Pretty funny now anyways. End up doing 4 out of the 5.

Great skit both. We have these new cards to invite people to service and he's talking all about it and says "like a Capitol One card"......2 vikings burst out of the side doors scaring the crap out of all of us (we didn't know that was coming). Funniest skit I've ever seen.

Anyways....in the end, it worked out fine and I think we're the only ones who knew that it was not even close to our plan. I did have fun, and am laughing about the whole thing now.

weeeeeeee

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hummm cool. I suppose to play Golf on sunday morning. For that i suppose to get early in the morning, and getting early for is like someone hunting me. i want to pray for my work also.

[ChickenKiller]

Love your story! This could be a funny thread. I wanna share one.


We got a drummer that forgets grooves fairly often. One morning I kick off this 'choppy' song popping my strings hand muting all that stuff, tone was on, congregation was clapping.... Drummer had the 'duh' look on his face again!

I yelled, "this is the right rhythm!" Grrr I was getting aggravated! So I look at my WL and she has that goofy look too. Man I was thinking (idiots).

I keep the groove going walk out to the WL and gruffly said. "What's the problem!?"

She looks at me and says.... "You are playing the wrong song."

I just swapped over to the right song.... Big oops!

[praisebass]

Originally Posted by mrboson

I seem to enjoy the spontaneous chaos that sometimes shows up during worship services. Stories like yours make me laugh too, this would be hard to do regularly otherwise.

Some of my favorite mixups include the worship lead forgetting to remove the capo he used on the previous song, and all the rest of us quickly figuring out we need to start transposing in our head (happens often).

I dig it. I make notes in the tech sheet so I can tell the worship leader to undo the transpose button on her keyboard. We have to call a 'Holy do-over' every once in a while... we generally just own it and move on...