Organ Donor

For about 2 years now I have been playing in the church band. Over that 2 years my contribution to the band has slowly transitioned (due to others prodding mostly) from a sax player, to a sax player/back-up singer, to now being a lead singer occasionally. One of the biggest obstacles I have had to contend with may surprise you….I have no idea what to do with my hands now. See when I was a sax player, it was pretty obvious, but as I was called on to sing more (and play less), I now suddenly have idle hands that can’t hide behind a sax and suddenly I don’t know what to do with them and feel a bit awkward on stage.
This takes me back to my younger years when I was in a Christian rap group (I’ll wait as you try to grapple with that one)………and as if it was an omen to my current predicament, I just stood there like a scarecrow. Needless to say, I wasn’t very entertaining to watch.
This weekend will be different though, I will be rocking on the organ (atleast for 1 song anyway), finally something to do with my hands. Armed with my jazz piano lessons in college I have been “shedding” (that what we cal it in the biz) the song all week on my little Casio keyboard I’ve had since high school. I didn’t bother telling the rest of the band that I have never actually performed on the organ before, but we will just see if they can figure that out for themselves.