Decibel Decrease

As you all know from one of my earlier blogs, I am in the worship band for my youth group at church on Sunday nights. We have run into a few problems that are seriously kinda sucky. Parents are complaining that the music is too loud and that we are going to destroy their precious kids' ears. Of course the loudness of the band is based on the drummer, and so of course, me being the drummer is the one most affected by this. I can understand that we are very loud and it should be toned down a bit, but when my expression that I put into playing is affected by that, it pushes my buttons. When I play drums, I like to have fun, rock out, and do some headbangin. That is how I like to worship God and express myself. Of course I don't do that on the slow songs, but on the fast ones like Undignified or Every Move I Make, the first point is to worship God, but the second point is to go crazy and get up off your feet! It’s impossible to get the crowd into it if I'm sitting back there like I'm bored!

The solution that we came up with is to put a curtain behind me and completely enclose me with barriers. We also put a bunch of foam inside my little enclosed room. Hopefully it will work out so I can get back to my jammin.