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Offline korg_gyrl_versatile

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« Reply #60 on: May 24, 2005, 11:14:03 AM »
MORE THINGS THAT AREN'T COOL:
 

   1. When someone comes to ur church & tries to sing something & (while ur trying to get the melody) rushes u 2 start playin' (like I REALLY know the song, I've never heard that song B4 man!!!)  :!:

   2. When somebody starts singing a song(without music at 1st), then u start playin'(in the right key 2!!!), & they want 2 stop u & start the song over b/c they (CLAIM) it wasn't in the right key( but thy're the ones who started the song!!!) :roll:

   3. When it's ur choir anniversary & ur ready to play the 1st song & errybody's amped up, but when u start 2 play, u realize that another musician used ur keyboard & THEY left ur keyboard in TRANSPOSE & u kno u didn't do it b/c u don't use transpose!!! That thing can make u sooooo mad until ur ready 2 knock 'em out 4 reaal !!! I'm ok tho.........LOL

   4. When someone breaks out with a song at devotion service & the song they sang sounds nothing like the record....Man dat stuff can be crazy & funny sometimes 2!!! :lol:

   5. people just  doing STUPID stuff in church all together...but hey, u gotta get a lil' laff from somewhere right!!!

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« Reply #61 on: May 24, 2005, 11:57:18 AM »
How about:

1. singers who expect you to know every single song on the planet and look at you funny if you don't

2. singers who don't give you any notice that they want to get into the bridge or the verse and then look at you funny if you don't get there straightaway

3. singers who want you to stop playing and, rather than doing the universal-sign-for-the-music-to-stop (clenched fist), they start shouting "STOP THE MUSIC! STOP THE MUSIC!" (and look at you funny if you look at them funny)

Yes, I get a lot of funny looks from singers :lol:

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« Reply #62 on: May 24, 2005, 12:01:18 PM »
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That is sooo not Kool

*But, that "tell your neighbor" is just plain played out. I mean, look... my neighbor heard you. He's sitting right here. Tell him, neighbor! Tell him! Tell him, you heard him!

Ooohh, that's right up there with, "Hello, somebody?"

I knew a pastor and after every third word, he said, "Hello, somebody?"

It goes like this,

The Lord is going to bless you, "hello, somebody?" Today is your day, "Hello, somebody." Can you feel your blessing coming, "Hello, somebody?"

Now, anticipate listening to this for 15 - 20 minutes.

.... Just Bring It. The Word is sufficient.


LMBO ...
I can top that ....

How about the preacher that gives a hand out / outline of his sermon, reads/preaches it verbatim ... AND the "Touch your neighbor", "Amen lights and walls", and (my favorite) "What do you mean, Pastor?  I'm glad you asked" plugs are TYPE WRITTEN on the paper ....  :lol:
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« Reply #63 on: May 24, 2005, 12:16:52 PM »
Quoting myself:
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universal-sign-for-the-music-to-stop (clenched fist)

Is that really universal? Would you guys understand it?

How about other signs:

touch the top of your head: take it from the top
point towards your back:go into the bridge/chorus
point a finger to the ground and make a circle: stay on the verse/chorus
index finger raised: last time

Any more? What do you guys use?

Thumbs up....   Modulate
Hand shaped like a C.... Chorus
1 finger ........... 1st verse
2 finger............ 2nd verse... etc
one finger in the air making a lasso loop....  loop the refrain or chorus end.
hand making a neck slicing motion....  cut the music minimal drums

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« Reply #64 on: May 24, 2005, 12:21:33 PM »
it not cool when the pastor or bishop is talking  and they tell u to turn it down but ur volume (if on the organ) is down all the way

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« Reply #65 on: May 25, 2005, 06:45:02 AM »
Elio wrote:
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How about other signs:

touch the top of your head: take it from the top
point towards your back:go into the bridge/chorus
point a finger to the ground and make a circle: stay on the verse/chorus
index finger raised: last time

Any more? What do you guys use?

Thumbs up.... Modulate
Hand shaped like a C.... Chorus
1 finger ........... 1st verse
2 finger............ 2nd verse... etc
one finger in the air making a lasso loop.... loop the refrain or chorus end.
hand making a neck slicing motion.... cut the music minimal drums



well i use a majority of those minus the  
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Hand shaped like a C.... Chorus
 :?  hmm how to do that when plain at the same time...and make sure everyone see's the "C"
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« Reply #66 on: May 26, 2005, 04:26:33 PM »
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Elio wrote:
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How about other signs:

touch the top of your head: take it from the top
point towards your back:go into the bridge/chorus
point a finger to the ground and make a circle: stay on the verse/chorus
index finger raised: last time

Any more? What do you guys use?

Thumbs up.... Modulate
Hand shaped like a C.... Chorus
1 finger ........... 1st verse
2 finger............ 2nd verse... etc
one finger in the air making a lasso loop.... loop the refrain or chorus end.
hand making a neck slicing motion.... cut the music minimal drums



well i use a majority of those minus the  
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Hand shaped like a C.... Chorus
 :?  hmm how to do that when plain at the same time...and make sure everyone see's the "C"


And then we do the hokey pokey and we turn ourselves around and that's what its all about...

the only one I knew was the clinched fist...they need to have workshops on this kind of stuff.

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« Reply #67 on: May 27, 2005, 07:00:38 AM »
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Elio wrote:
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How about other signs:

touch the top of your head: take it from the top
point towards your back:go into the bridge/chorus
point a finger to the ground and make a circle: stay on the verse/chorus
index finger raised: last time

Any more? What do you guys use?

Thumbs up.... Modulate
Hand shaped like a C.... Chorus
1 finger ........... 1st verse
2 finger............ 2nd verse... etc
one finger in the air making a lasso loop.... loop the refrain or chorus end.
hand making a neck slicing motion.... cut the music minimal drums



well i use a majority of those minus the  
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Hand shaped like a C.... Chorus
 :?  hmm how to do that when plain at the same time...and make sure everyone see's the "C"


And then we do the hokey pokey and we turn ourselves around and that's what its all about...

the only one I knew was the clinched fist...they need to have workshops on this kind of stuff.


I use most of these with the exception of the "hand shaped like a C for the chorus" Most of my choir members can't spell!  j/k :lol:  :lol:

Oh, and I don't use the pointing the finger at the ground and making a loop thing.

As for a workshop on this stuff, I saw a book with choir director hand signals, and I was going to buy; but when I went back it was gone. So, I think there's a book out there somewhere on this subject. Check NTIMEMUSIC.COM. they might have something.

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« Reply #68 on: May 28, 2005, 05:51:53 AM »
Jonathan wrote
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As for a workshop on this stuff, I saw a book with choir director hand signals, and I was going to buy; but when I went back it was gone. So, I think there's a book out there somewhere on this subject. Check NTIMEMUSIC.COM. they might have something.


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« Reply #69 on: May 28, 2005, 09:54:21 AM »
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I use most of these with the exception of the "hand shaped like a C for the chorus" Most of my choir members can't spell!  j/k :lol:  :lol:

Hahaha! :D :D :D

It reminds me of that time we went out for a church meal and we were playing that game where the MC picks people at random, names a letter, and the person has to sing a church song/chorus starting with that letter. It went something like:

W: "What a friend we have in Jesus...."
T: "Thank You Lord...."
C: "Come Holy Spirit..."

and so on until:

G: "Jesus loves me...."

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« Reply #70 on: May 28, 2005, 02:25:26 PM »
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and so on until:

G: "Jesus loves me...."


ROTFLMBO :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  STOP IT!
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« Reply #71 on: June 30, 2005, 03:26:49 AM »
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Quoting myself:
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universal-sign-for-the-music-to-stop (clenched fist)

Is that really universal? Would you guys understand it?

How about other signs:

touch the top of your head: take it from the top
point towards your back:go into the bridge/chorus
point a finger to the ground and make a circle: stay on the verse/chorus
index finger raised: last time

Any more? What do you guys use?

Thumbs up....   Modulate
Hand shaped like a C.... Chorus
1 finger ........... 1st verse
2 finger............ 2nd verse... etc
one finger in the air making a lasso loop....  loop the refrain or chorus end.
hand making a neck slicing motion....  cut the music minimal drums


Here's how it works at my church:

Fingers shaped like C=Chorus
1 Finger=1st verse
2 Fingers=2nd verse
Point up=Modulate
FIngers move in circle=Repeat
Palm in the air=End

It is not cool:

The first one, I'll just have to tell the story.  There was this pastor who came to our church (very wierd, he brought this whole little agency of people with him.  They had walkie-talkies and everything else.  one man sat up in the choir stand with us).  My choir was finished and his choir was coming up, so i was waiting for them to get out my way so i could go down to the audience.  well, he didn't bring any musicians with him, but he could play (i guess you could say he played), but he said "stand by."   the first song was "The Lord is Blessing Me" in B-flat.  He was not that good, but he didn't stop playing.  I guess he didn't know the second song, because the choir started by themselves, and by the time they were all singing on the same key, the pastor was lost on some key.  he finally just got up off the organ and said "you play."  i fiddled till i found that key, and discovered why he was fiddling...it was f-sharp.  Who here likes f-sharp?  anyway, i meddled in it till they were finished.  his choir went to the audience leaving me with one of his little agent people.  this guy said, "when he starts singing in his preaching, he does it in E-flat."  I said ok, but i did not get a chance to tell my mother, the pianist who was way across from me.  when he tuned up, he was way off from E-flat.  In the middle of it, he told us "E-flat!  E-flat!"  but he kept on going and did not even give us a chance.  So anyway, at one point, he came over to the organ, reached over, and just pounded on E-flat.  I was twelve then, two years ago.  Had it been now, I might have got up off the organ and said "you want it in e-flat, you play it in e-flat.  you don't touch my organ without giving me a chance," go to the back of the choir stand and that would be that.  but i didn't.  but that is not cool.  the next year, he brough his own musicians, and i was so glad!

THings that aren't cool:

1. the MOM does not know a single thing about music

2. 6 people show up to choir rehearsal, and when you look up on Sunday, there are 50 people standing up ready to sing.

3. "Professionals" come to your church to tell you what to do and how to run things and things were going fine before they came.

4. when the musicians keep speeding up the song and the director takes the song too long, and the choir and soloist get worn out from singing

5. When the song leader stops singing and sits down because the choir director does not know when to stop.

6. When someone gets paid to do something, but wants to put their job off on everyone else.

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« Reply #72 on: June 30, 2005, 10:38:17 AM »
It's not cool for you to have an agreement with somone that you'd get a certain amount after the service is over and they ask you for your address when you agreed on $150.00 and they send you a check for $25.00 ( happened to me on year). Will never happen again....

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« Reply #73 on: June 30, 2005, 02:40:31 PM »
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It's not cool for you to have an agreement with somone that you'd get a certain amount after the service is over and they ask you for your address when you agreed on $150.00 and they send you a check for $25.00 ( happened to me on year). Will never happen again....


oh no, they did not.  they gave yuo $25 when they were supposed to give you $150?

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« Reply #74 on: June 30, 2005, 03:10:21 PM »
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It's not cool for you to have an agreement with somone that you'd get a certain amount after the service is over and they ask you for your address when you agreed on $150.00 and they send you a check for $25.00 ( happened to me on year). Will never happen again....


oh no, they did not.  they gave yuo $25 when they were supposed to give you $150?



This has nothing to do with music... Its not kool to be asked to do the make up for a wedding as a favor of a friend who couldn't do it.... Wound up helping out with the entire wedding for the entire day... I mean pictures, gowns, tuxedos, pinning flowers on guest and even greeting guest... Mind you I just met the bride and her family that morning... Promise to be paid $250... and only get $60....
I even helped the girl get in and out of her dress and held the dress until her mom was ready to leave..... OOOOOOO Boy :evil:  :evil:  if I wasn't saved I would have took that dress home, pour black hair dye on it and mail it back to her COD....... NOT KOOL AT ALLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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« Reply #75 on: June 30, 2005, 04:54:27 PM »
Wassup everyone,

I have one situation that is really not cool...

It is so not cool when a preacher, or prophet or whatever calls himself ministering to you, by whispering in your ear, and speaking in tongues in your ear and SPITTING in your ear. The Lord instructed us to spread the gospel, nothing else!!!! But do they stop there??? NO They hug you like it's no tomorrow, squezing the life out of you, and that shaking thing that people do, when they shiver and look like they're getting weak in the knees...what is that all about??? I mean maybe it's a part of the Holy Ghost that I hadn't met yet. But that kills me.

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« Reply #76 on: July 01, 2005, 07:10:46 AM »
This has nothing to do with music... Its not kool to be asked to do the make up for a wedding as a favor of a friend who couldn't do it.... Wound up helping out with the entire wedding for the entire day... I mean pictures, gowns, tuxedos, pinning flowers on guest and even greeting guest... Mind you I just met the bride and her family that morning... Promise to be paid $250... and only get $60....
I even helped the girl get in and out of her dress and held the dress until her mom was ready to leave..... OOOOOOO Boy :evil:  :evil:  if I wasn't saved I would have took that dress home, pour black hair dye on it and mail it back to her COD....... NOT KOOL AT ALLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #77 on: August 28, 2015, 01:01:39 PM »

Hahaha! :D :D :D

It reminds me of that time we went out for a church meal and we were playing that game where the MC picks people at random, names a letter, and the person has to sing a church song/chorus starting with that letter. It went something like:

W: "What a friend we have in Jesus...."
T: "Thank You Lord...."
C: "Come Holy Spirit..."

and so on until:

G: "Jesus loves me...."

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