Playing Drum To God

To be honest, there are times I always having a hard time playing the drums in our church, some times I got nervous and because of that, my tendency is to play drums out of timing. Bad is in it? But the good thing is I have a very patient worship leader no other than kuya Ted Amper. Why? He’s a very good man and he helped me so much in order that I could be a good drummer someday, he even molds my character looking back the way I used to be. Maybe he doesn’t know that, but he’s been a big impact to my life. The reason why I could play drums even though I’m not that good enough to play drums is because; I was put to mind that this is all for God and not for men. And I know that I gave it to God all my best and I don’t care what they say if I had mistaken the bit or the timing. Here’s the secret, if you are a drummer in your church and some how you’re just a beginner the same as me before, what you have to do when you got nervous is just pray to God and ask Him that He will give you strength. And if you know something you are not yet surrender to Him either sin or something my advice is, you have to surrender that first before God so that He will make you a clean vessel.

The Time How Do I Become A Drummer

Now you know how I become drummer right? Of course not, since I already knew how to play Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano, joined a particular ministry inside our church which was the music ministry and my knowledge about music continue to grow as well as skills and then I begin to appreciate the sound of our church’s drums. I remember when Pastor Jeff Aspacio our youth director before and drummer of our church while his playing the drum, I always used to looked at him and try to find out how do he play drums with a very nice groove and fill ins. By the way Pastor Jeff is one of the reason why I become a drummer because he taught me a lot of thing about drums including exercises, rudiments, analyzing the sound of the drums when I’m listening a particular song. When Pastor Jeff sent by our church to have another church in Makati City, our main church has no drummer anymore that’s why Kuya Ted Amper our worship leader and music director asked me to choose which instrument do I really like to play when serving the Lord every Sunday, and said to my self since there is no drummer yet, I will play drums for the Lord even though I am not good enough. This is how I become drummer.

My First Encounter With The Musical Instrument

At first, I didn't know how to play drums because I never saw myself becoming a drummer... for me, that time ,playing drums was one of the most difficult thing to do aside from the fact that I don't know how to play any kind of instrument. But somehow I saw that even when I was a young kid I really liked music. But guess what? Music doesn't like me. I don't know why but maybe because I was limiting my self, that I cannot play drums. To tell you how I became a drummer I will tell you about the first instrument I learned. My first instrument is probably the most common instrument in the world and that is the guitar. Maybe you won’t believe me if I tell you that in just one day I learned playing a song using the guitar. That day I was just sweeping our dorm’s floor and unexpectedly one friend of mine forgot to keep his guitar when he was done using it. You see, I was very curious about everything that’s why I used to touch things with out asking permission first. So what I did was I took the guitar and tried as best as I can but some how I really couldn’t produce a good sound. So I took my friend’s book and I tried to understand the guitar lessons in it and did my best to understand it. Finally I heard that the sound was becoming better so I continued to practice the basic chords to the point that I forgot what I was really supposed to do which was to sweep the floor and that was it.