Jamming with the band

So over the past two weeks I have been pretty busy. A lot of my time has been consumed in pursuing my dream career of playing drums in a praise and worship band. I try to spend at least an hour a day playing random stuff while the click track is clicking in my ear. But sometimes I hook my MP3 player up to my ear phones and jam to a song from one of my favorite artists. But I decided I would like to play drums with the band at my church and so I asked the leader of the band would I could audition and he told me to just come down one Thursday night while they were rehearsing and I could sit in for a bit. So I did. The band heard me play and said, "aight!" Brigg the team leader asked everyone what they thought and pretty much everyone said he's good. There was one guy though who said he thought my time wasn't sitting in the pocket just right. So he gave me some tips to practicing that could improve my timing. That's where I got the click track idea. So Brigg told me I was in with the group and I could jam with the guys. He also decided that I would start off playing percussion so as to learn all the songs the way they play them. So the next Thursday that there was practice I went and learned how to play the congas to one song. But they liked how quickly I picked up the congas and told me to be at the church on Sunday and 7:45 to rehearse real quickly before the services started. So I ended up playing in all the 3 songs that we played on Sunday and by the time we were done with the first set my hands had started to swell up because they weren't used to playing the congas. Plus, the drums were right next to me so I had to play super loud which meant hitting the heads much harder. All-in-all I believe I did really well and I know for a fact that I had a blast!