8O I have came to the conclusion that most of the hottest drummers out there, are playing or have come from small little country churches. In my past, I have visited lots of small churches with about 15 to 30 members in them, and the drummer is just ripping it up on the drums with style you won't find in these 5,000 seater to 1,000 seater big church.
:cry: When I go to the bigger churches, the drummer isn't as half as good as the small church drummers; yeah they're getting paid, but tha's because artists assume that the best drummers are in the best or biggest churches, while the small church drummers are being passedd by everyday, as if they don't count, when some of them could play them under a rock! They are also more humble and choose to stay where they are getting fed the word instead of trying to make it mainstream by going to a bigger church.
:cry: I myself play at a 3,000 seater church, but I can back up the reason why I'm in the head of percussion seat, not because of my skill, but because of my waitng for 6 years at an 11 member church till someone recruited me to a bigger one. I'm just trying to put it out there, that it's not the size of the church where the talent is, but where the devotion is :wink:
Be Blessed!