HOW To PLAY BUILDS EFFECTIVELY - Worship Drumming Series Ep5

This video gives you a few examples of how you can approach playing 'builds' in worship music. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL for more great drum lessons for all levels!

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[Devon]

If you're going to be a good worship drummer you absolutely have to master the build, it's another one of those things that the powers that be put into every song. Sometimes the entire song is a build, slowly adding in more and more nuance and little nuggets, and accents here and there until we reach THE GROOVE!!! Lol it's all about that tension and release man. It can kill the song if a drummer can't do it correctly. I'm glad someone is putting this stuff out there for folks to learn. You do great work bro!

[chriskennedy]

I'm thinking at times that most of what you're saying is common then a realize I never could have slowed my brain down enough to think of it as common sense. The way you break things down and explain to a learning level is phenomenal. Great teaching Rob. One of the many reasons I've been watching your videos. You're an inspiration! Cheers!

[RobertDion-kk]

MY BROTHER..thank you for the moment..I've been holding back and now I understand what you mean by timid..I thought being humble would release the flow. But I see you are right on with this..I've been playing for 6 weeks but suffering threw it..I took 20 off from playing..now I need more of your s.m.e..

[WillSmith-zcpi]

I like that, slap them in the face during worship, there is nothing like the crack of a good snare at just the right time, either building or dynamically, it's like it awakens the soul, bless you rob . Can you something on building with kick, I try and add these in as well at right time but definitely risky .

[pabloescalonamaria]

Thank you so much Rob. I understand very clearly that you blow in the ear little diamonds for thouse of us who can see. Keep up the good work . Cheers

[MrPistonslife]

That's the absolute best church drummer advice I've brother spot on spot on omg! It also allows you to establish who's driving the band dynamically too. Because everyone's discipline level is different when comes to following.

[rhythmantic]

Very practical and with a variety of ways to build a crescendo. Your examples are good exercises to work on.
I have found it challenging for me to get the 4 or 3 limbs working in unison due to practicing independence between the limbs for so many decades. I find most often that building a crescendo into an up section of the song benefits the band mostly and provides the confidence where we are heading, even though most of the time we are playing to a click that provides instructions vocally of where we're going in the song.
Thanks for this worship series. Your snare sounds so good, pops out of the mix, - the whole kit sound fantastic as is your approach & touch to drumming.
Oh, and, God bless the work of your hands & feet.

[legacyShredder]

Ha. From drummer to musician; I went out, 5 days ago, and picked up a kit to improve my musicianship by learning drums/percussion. I'm 30, I've been playing things with strings, (Guitar being main instrument, ) since before I could talk, but I've never written with percussion in mind ever. I've always written what felt good while thinking "Joe's drums are going to be killer on this, " without thinking about what those drums should or even could sound like. It's a giant void in my musical knowledge that, I feel, I have to learn and use. I'm on day 5, although I don't count by days, I count by hours: I always have and probably always will. "I've played for 20 years" means nothing to me if the daily hours are lacking.

I made the decision to go with traditional grip from the start. At 52 hours in my doubles are doing pretty decent considering it's only been 5 actual days. I don't have a real destination beyond wanting to be as knowledgeable and skilled with this instrument as I am with my others in order to improve the quality of writing. (I use an old punch-in time clock from an old machine shop to count my hours.)

Edited for typo & adding: I've always tried to incorporate rudiments into my guitar playing (I used to march with the snares in high school with my guitar, wireless) and the rhythmic qualities I learned from them definitely made it into my style. I do wish to learn more to be able to apply the rhythms to all my instruments.

[ajmbcr]

Great tips!!!! I'll start to practice them to play builds more effectively.

[Pearl]

I love the punch at the beginning of the build – I do that move too. It gets people to wake up and realize that something's about to happen. Super effective. If it's a multi-bar build, I'll even do it at the beginning of each bar or every other bar. It gives you a little more room to grow over a longer period of time because you can come back down and rebuild back up – but with added tension each time.

[garyshuda]

Man, you're doing a great job with delivering solid content with every video. Always look forward to your posts. Keep it up!

[redrum]

Your explanations are a blessing. Thank you for another great video, sir. You have helped me in orchestration and many other areas.

Peace \m/

[BatManWayneCorp]

Awesome Tutorial! I usually have less problems with the builds themselves but rather with thinking up ways of breaking out of a build... Any chance you could do something on that? I noticed you definitely have more than one way to leave the build and go on with the song.

[rossrinkenbaugh]

Dig the live drumming of the builds, but love the shirt man, true life of a drummer. Where do find those kinds of clothes. Another gerat video Rob.

[NikkiNexo]

Great idea with layering 8th and 16th notes on the build. I've never thought to do that. I'm going to try it on Sunday at church. BTW, love the new swish! It sounds great both by itself and with a crash.

[legacyShredder]

Have you attended the National Worship Leader Conference ever, or maybe even played at the event?

[jimshadforth]

Good advice about not being timid. The rest of the band needs to be "on the same page".

[berniebrains]

the place where i played drums made me play with multi rods and i could only tap the drums and cymbals lmao so im jealous you can rock out.

[itaskerhollins]

....from drummer to "musician"....
So true.

[jessicaauermusic]

Nothing like smacking people in face during worship LOLOL