Marko on Worship
It’s time for us all to pause, at Marko’s invitation, and reflect upon that holiest of all holy instruments …
Ah, the tambourine. That venerable praise instrument: there is no other instrument that so quickly ushers us directly into the presence of God. And, the tambourine is the only remaining praise instrument to be handed down, generation after generation, from the times of Jesus, all the way to our modern worship services.
Preach it, Marko. Preach it.
Friends, if our own Ash deigns to comment on this profundity, show him honor. He has vast and fruitful experience in this area.
Morphea 8:23 am on 8 July 2005 Permalink
Ash, what say you?
aly hawkins 9:24 am on 8 July 2005 Permalink
I’m loathe to admit this, but I’m actually the tambourine expert in the family. I’ve clocked serious time on VMC’s stage, doing my best Mama Cass.
Morphea 10:46 am on 8 July 2005 Permalink
I have a lot of trouble singing and shaking it at the same time, but I’ve never locked myself in the woodshed to practice it, either.
I do have some cool pictures of when I fronted a college rock band – I’m wailing into the mic (on a stand, natch!), tambourine hanging limply from my right hand, left hand clutching the stand. Oh, yeah. I’m a rockah. Cerise
Stick 10:37 pm on 10 July 2005 Permalink
There needs to be a certification course and stringent licensing requirements for all singers professing to also be tamborinists. The classes would included things like “Where One Is”, “Groove for singers”, “Playing tamborine softly”, and “Where not to set a tamborine”.
At my last church, we used electronic drums and keys, and kept the stage volume pretty low. Everytime the dumb LOUD tamborine came out, the tempos got WAAAAY slower.
JSNTT “Just say NO to Tamborine”
P.S. I must say, I do use tamborine occasionally in a song production now and again. Of course, it’s usually a loop that plays right in time.
Morphea 8:24 am on 11 July 2005 Permalink
Good on ya, Stick. I think you’re absolutely right. Cerise