Most people who know me, know that I’m not a huge fan of change. Actually, if you ask Tim, he would probably say that I hate every thing that sounds different. (Just ask him about any new home remodel project that he’s mentioned… 😉 ) Now, in my defense I do eventually warm up to new things and I dare say, love them. But it takes me a while.

A few months ago Tim approached me with the idea of playing a different kind of keyboard at church for worship team. He had a vision of trying to bolster our sound without adding more volunteers, since those are so hard to recruit. And in true fashion, I responded less than enthusiastic. But after weeks of showing me videos and cool sounds and talking me through it, I got on board.

Fast forward to now. I’ve been playing the new synthesizer since Christmas and I’m really starting to get the hang of it. It really DOES have cool sounds. And it really DOES bolster our sound in a good way and helps fill out the instruments without needing more volunteers. Granted, it also does take a lot of practice, but I’m enjoying the challenge of doing new things that are like playing piano but not exactly classical piano playing.

The program we use to run the keyboard is intense and has a big learning curve. Big. Learning. Curve. But Tim as put in dozens and dozens of hours of work learning the program and getting things figured out and has even been able to create new sounds instead of just using pre-programmed sounds (he’s pretty amazing). But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as Tim likes to say. But more on that tomorrow.