Alright...I am at a musical a while back, and the way the stage was set up resulted in the drums being in East Cupcake somewhere, away from the choir, and the musicians. Now my mom is the minister of music as well as the keyboardist and she writes most of our songs, so it's not like I remember a song off CD or anything like that. So I see her talking to our director and they decide on a song...WITHOUT TELLIN ME!!!!
So I'm like waving my sticks to trying to get somebody's attention, but I was so far away nobody could see me. To top things off, there were A LOT of drummers there and everybody felt the need to use every single piece of their own hardware, cymbals and snare. So not only can I not get anybody's attention, I'm trying to throw my snare and kick on at the same. Luckily, there's a little intro to the song that bought me some time, but I still couldn't recognize the song itself!!! I finally get my equipment right, and the choir starts. Fortunately, this was a slow joint we were doing so while I listened to the first verse to try and remember the song, I just played some little accents trying to play it off (you know how when you have absolutely no idea what's going on, so you just start accents as a fallback LOL!!!!!! When in doubt, ACCENT!!!!!). By the middle of the first verse I recognized the song, but stuck with the accents as if I meant to play those in the first place LOL SMOOTH
) By the time the chorus came around I was gravy...that's how you come through in the clutch BABY!!!!! LOL
