Chords for 1 on 1 ft. Bass & Sax Player Danny Gregory - Surge Productions Interview
Tempo:
55 bpm
Chords used:
C#m
E
C#
F#
G#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Hey, what's up everybody this is Sergio Osito here at Surge Productions.
Just wanted to give a big shout out and say thank you to Danny Gregory for joining us today.
So just a little quick [G#m] question.
A lot of people on YouTube [B] wanted to know what you play.
So can you give us a little breakdown on that?
Alright, well I [C#m] play MTD basses.
This is an MTD 535 and [A] I've owned two of these basses.
I love the way they feel.
[C#m] I've always said that MTDs, they just pretty much play themselves.
You just gotta put your hands on it [C#] and the bass does all the work.
[C#m] And I use Mogami cables.
I use a Groove Gear [E] strap and for strings I'm [C#] switching it out pretty constantly.
Right now I'm using [F#] Sadowski, the stainless [G#] steel, black label, round [C#m] wound, 135-45.
I use EBS amps and speakers and I'm not endorsed by any of these companies.
I just use this stuff because I like the way it [C#] sounds.
And that's what I would like to tell everyone is [F#] find what works for you.
Find what you like to do and save up your money.
Go play a lot of stuff.
Some of the stuff you can't find at your local guitar center.
So just search out music shops that have this kind of gear and try to establish your own
sound and your own voice [A#m] on the instrument.
And the rest is history.
So how long have you been playing bass and how did you start playing the bass?
Uh man, I've been playing for about probably about like 20 years.
I wasn't really too serious in the beginning.
I originally started off as a [A] saxophone player playing in church and in [G#] band, jazz band.
That's where I got my start and what happened was my brother, he wanted to learn how to
play an instrument.
So he told my [D#] parents he wanted to play the bass.
They bought him a little four string Ibanez bass.
It was red with a black pick guard.
It was like a Fender, their version of a Fender [C#m] jazz bass, a P bass.
And he brought it [E] home.
He just never got it back.
That's all I can say.
He never got it back.
I like the sound of it.
[D#] So I continued playing sax and I just started messing around [C#m] with the bass.
Playing a lot of melodies, which I know you're not supposed [F#m] to do.
But just establishing [C#m] my own voice.
From there, I did get some lessons, some formal lessons on reading music [F#m] and learning where
to put your hands and [C#m] the real techniques to finger picking and slapping.
Your scales, your minor scales, your major scales, your blues scales, which most of that
I had known from playing the [C#] saxophone.
The only thing was just different for me translating that to the bass as far as reading music,
making the transition from treble clef to bass [G] clef.
That's where I got my [E] start.
I started off in church and I just never looked back.
I just stuck with the bass.
[F#] All right.
So do you have any advice for these young musicians that are looking up to bass players
in this new generation?
Yeah, what I would say is I've noticed a lack of [B] understanding and wanting [E] to learn.
Young kids have a desire to play their instruments that they want, but they don't really [F#] have
a desire to go [E] home and practice or invest the time and the money and the effort into
learning to play an instrument.
[N] You see all the [C#m] flash and the glamour of playing [E] licks and all these special things that bass players do.
But [D#] when it comes to following songs on a service or following the piano [C#m] player, using
your ear, a lot of musicians lack that.
They just can't figure out [A#m] how to do that.
And that's because you're not sitting at [E] home.
You're not taking the time going in the woodshed and learning your craft.
You just want to [C#] come and already know how to play.
And that's just not how it works.
And I've noticed a lot of musicians [C#m] in churches that [F#m] they just don't want to [C#] take the time.
It is right [C#m] there at that moment.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I want to learn that.
I'm going to do that.
But when it comes down to it, you're not taking the time at your [D#] house.
You know, one of the things I did taking lessons, [C#m] my parents stressed to me was, you know,
take a tape recorder.
Back then it was tape recorders.
Now you have phones.
You can record this stuff.
But [C#] record it, take it home and replay it.
Because in a 30 minute or an hour lesson, 45 minute lesson, you forget what was said.
You forget what you were taught.
And that way you can keep going over and over.
Not only that, it helps develop your ear.
Because if you're not [B] reading notes and you're taking lessons with someone who is not [G#] necessarily
teaching you how to read by note, you can listen to what they're doing and [D#] try to figure that out.
Use your ear to figure out what they're playing, you know, as well [A#m] as even watching it.
But a [G#m] lot of days now we just have what we call YouTube learners.
And they just get on [A#m] YouTube and they learn the lick to this song that someone played
in a [G#m] gospel song or contemporary Christian song.
[E] They learn that song just the way, you know, someone's teaching them on YouTube.
And you're not really taking the time to learn it yourself and figure out what it was, you
know, off of a CD and listening to it or getting the sheet music and then learning it with the CD.
[F#m] I just felt [G#] that's a big deal.
And if you would do [G#] that, if musicians would do that, I think that we would have this,
[Em] you know, transition of musicality amongst, you know, the older musicians into the younger musicians.
They just don't seem [F#] to want it.
So I say you need to really [Em] realize that I need to work hard at this in order to put
my best foot forward before God.
I hear a lot of people say [N] that, you know, we're just going to go, we know it and we're
just going to wing it and let the anointing take you.
If you don't [E] put the time in, you know how much better God wants us to put our best [B] foot
forward, our best for him.
And so if we put in the time and [C#m] then we pray for God to anoint us and use us, there's no
telling what God can do for you.
And I believe that's what [E] makes you successful in Christ.
What church do you play at and [D#] how long you've been playing there?
Right now I play for [C#m] Revival Center United Pentecostal Church in Modesto, California,
[F#m] and I've been playing there for [C#] about, man, probably about 16 [C#m] years.
And [G#] I played a couple other small churches.
I help out some small churches on Sunday mornings [C#m] and during the week from time to time, different
things, different conferences.
There's a church in Tracy, California, New Creation Bible Fellowship, and I enjoy playing
there with a good group [C#] of musicians.
And then I also play in Tracy across town at a United [E] Pentecostal Church there as well.
And it's just good times, man.
You get to help churches out.
Some of the churches don't have a lot of talent in their churches, and [C#] so it's such a blessing
to be a blessing to churches and the people.
It just makes the worship easier for [E] them and ushering in the presence of God.
And then from time to time we do conferences.
You get called to do a conference, and that's always fun.
You hang out with your friends, and you know, you're at a little higher level.
You're operating at a higher level there at the conference.
Usually you have music you had to [G#] actually sit down and go through and learn [E] and have
specific hits that have to be hit at a certain time and whatnot.
[G] So it's always fun, man.
So where can we [F#] find you on [E] social media?
Well, I have an email address.
You can hit me up on my email if you have any questions.
It's ddgcms [F#] at hotmail.com.
I'm also on Facebook.
I'm just searching my name, Danny Gregory.
And as well as Instagram, you can hit me up at Official D.Gray.
So if you have any [A]
[E] questions, I'm a better musician.
[F#] Thank you for this.
And I just want to say thank you to [E] Danny Gregory for taking
Just wanted to give a big shout out and say thank you to Danny Gregory for joining us today.
So just a little quick [G#m] question.
A lot of people on YouTube [B] wanted to know what you play.
So can you give us a little breakdown on that?
Alright, well I [C#m] play MTD basses.
This is an MTD 535 and [A] I've owned two of these basses.
I love the way they feel.
[C#m] I've always said that MTDs, they just pretty much play themselves.
You just gotta put your hands on it [C#] and the bass does all the work.
[C#m] And I use Mogami cables.
I use a Groove Gear [E] strap and for strings I'm [C#] switching it out pretty constantly.
Right now I'm using [F#] Sadowski, the stainless [G#] steel, black label, round [C#m] wound, 135-45.
I use EBS amps and speakers and I'm not endorsed by any of these companies.
I just use this stuff because I like the way it [C#] sounds.
And that's what I would like to tell everyone is [F#] find what works for you.
Find what you like to do and save up your money.
Go play a lot of stuff.
Some of the stuff you can't find at your local guitar center.
So just search out music shops that have this kind of gear and try to establish your own
sound and your own voice [A#m] on the instrument.
And the rest is history.
So how long have you been playing bass and how did you start playing the bass?
Uh man, I've been playing for about probably about like 20 years.
I wasn't really too serious in the beginning.
I originally started off as a [A] saxophone player playing in church and in [G#] band, jazz band.
That's where I got my start and what happened was my brother, he wanted to learn how to
play an instrument.
So he told my [D#] parents he wanted to play the bass.
They bought him a little four string Ibanez bass.
It was red with a black pick guard.
It was like a Fender, their version of a Fender [C#m] jazz bass, a P bass.
And he brought it [E] home.
He just never got it back.
That's all I can say.
He never got it back.
I like the sound of it.
[D#] So I continued playing sax and I just started messing around [C#m] with the bass.
Playing a lot of melodies, which I know you're not supposed [F#m] to do.
But just establishing [C#m] my own voice.
From there, I did get some lessons, some formal lessons on reading music [F#m] and learning where
to put your hands and [C#m] the real techniques to finger picking and slapping.
Your scales, your minor scales, your major scales, your blues scales, which most of that
I had known from playing the [C#] saxophone.
The only thing was just different for me translating that to the bass as far as reading music,
making the transition from treble clef to bass [G] clef.
That's where I got my [E] start.
I started off in church and I just never looked back.
I just stuck with the bass.
[F#] All right.
So do you have any advice for these young musicians that are looking up to bass players
in this new generation?
Yeah, what I would say is I've noticed a lack of [B] understanding and wanting [E] to learn.
Young kids have a desire to play their instruments that they want, but they don't really [F#] have
a desire to go [E] home and practice or invest the time and the money and the effort into
learning to play an instrument.
[N] You see all the [C#m] flash and the glamour of playing [E] licks and all these special things that bass players do.
But [D#] when it comes to following songs on a service or following the piano [C#m] player, using
your ear, a lot of musicians lack that.
They just can't figure out [A#m] how to do that.
And that's because you're not sitting at [E] home.
You're not taking the time going in the woodshed and learning your craft.
You just want to [C#] come and already know how to play.
And that's just not how it works.
And I've noticed a lot of musicians [C#m] in churches that [F#m] they just don't want to [C#] take the time.
It is right [C#m] there at that moment.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I want to learn that.
I'm going to do that.
But when it comes down to it, you're not taking the time at your [D#] house.
You know, one of the things I did taking lessons, [C#m] my parents stressed to me was, you know,
take a tape recorder.
Back then it was tape recorders.
Now you have phones.
You can record this stuff.
But [C#] record it, take it home and replay it.
Because in a 30 minute or an hour lesson, 45 minute lesson, you forget what was said.
You forget what you were taught.
And that way you can keep going over and over.
Not only that, it helps develop your ear.
Because if you're not [B] reading notes and you're taking lessons with someone who is not [G#] necessarily
teaching you how to read by note, you can listen to what they're doing and [D#] try to figure that out.
Use your ear to figure out what they're playing, you know, as well [A#m] as even watching it.
But a [G#m] lot of days now we just have what we call YouTube learners.
And they just get on [A#m] YouTube and they learn the lick to this song that someone played
in a [G#m] gospel song or contemporary Christian song.
[E] They learn that song just the way, you know, someone's teaching them on YouTube.
And you're not really taking the time to learn it yourself and figure out what it was, you
know, off of a CD and listening to it or getting the sheet music and then learning it with the CD.
[F#m] I just felt [G#] that's a big deal.
And if you would do [G#] that, if musicians would do that, I think that we would have this,
[Em] you know, transition of musicality amongst, you know, the older musicians into the younger musicians.
They just don't seem [F#] to want it.
So I say you need to really [Em] realize that I need to work hard at this in order to put
my best foot forward before God.
I hear a lot of people say [N] that, you know, we're just going to go, we know it and we're
just going to wing it and let the anointing take you.
If you don't [E] put the time in, you know how much better God wants us to put our best [B] foot
forward, our best for him.
And so if we put in the time and [C#m] then we pray for God to anoint us and use us, there's no
telling what God can do for you.
And I believe that's what [E] makes you successful in Christ.
What church do you play at and [D#] how long you've been playing there?
Right now I play for [C#m] Revival Center United Pentecostal Church in Modesto, California,
[F#m] and I've been playing there for [C#] about, man, probably about 16 [C#m] years.
And [G#] I played a couple other small churches.
I help out some small churches on Sunday mornings [C#m] and during the week from time to time, different
things, different conferences.
There's a church in Tracy, California, New Creation Bible Fellowship, and I enjoy playing
there with a good group [C#] of musicians.
And then I also play in Tracy across town at a United [E] Pentecostal Church there as well.
And it's just good times, man.
You get to help churches out.
Some of the churches don't have a lot of talent in their churches, and [C#] so it's such a blessing
to be a blessing to churches and the people.
It just makes the worship easier for [E] them and ushering in the presence of God.
And then from time to time we do conferences.
You get called to do a conference, and that's always fun.
You hang out with your friends, and you know, you're at a little higher level.
You're operating at a higher level there at the conference.
Usually you have music you had to [G#] actually sit down and go through and learn [E] and have
specific hits that have to be hit at a certain time and whatnot.
[G] So it's always fun, man.
So where can we [F#] find you on [E] social media?
Well, I have an email address.
You can hit me up on my email if you have any questions.
It's ddgcms [F#] at hotmail.com.
I'm also on Facebook.
I'm just searching my name, Danny Gregory.
And as well as Instagram, you can hit me up at Official D.Gray.
So if you have any [A]
[E] questions, I'm a better musician.
[F#] Thank you for this.
And I just want to say thank you to [E] Danny Gregory for taking
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Hey, what's up everybody this is Sergio Osito here at Surge Productions.
Just wanted to give a big shout out and say thank you to Danny Gregory for joining us today.
So just a little quick [G#m] question.
A lot of people on YouTube [B] wanted to know what you play.
So can you give us a little breakdown on that?
Alright, well I [C#m] play MTD basses.
This is an MTD 535 and [A] I've owned two of these basses.
I love the way they feel.
[C#m] I've always said that MTDs, they just pretty much play themselves.
You just gotta put your hands on it [C#] and the bass does all the work.
[C#m] And I use Mogami cables.
_ I use a Groove Gear [E] strap and for strings I'm [C#] switching it out pretty constantly.
Right now I'm using [F#] Sadowski, the stainless [G#] steel, black label, round [C#m] wound, 135-45.
I use EBS amps and speakers and I'm not endorsed by any of these companies.
I just use this stuff because I like the way it [C#] sounds.
And that's what I would like to tell everyone is [F#] find what works for you.
Find what you like to do and save up your money.
Go play a lot of stuff.
Some of the stuff you can't find at your local guitar center.
So just search out music shops that have this kind of gear and try to establish your own
sound and your own voice [A#m] on the instrument.
And the rest is history.
So how long have you been playing bass and how did you start playing the bass?
Uh man, I've been playing for about probably about like 20 years.
I wasn't really too serious in the beginning.
I originally started off as a [A] saxophone player playing in church and in [G#] band, jazz band.
That's where I got my start and what happened was my brother, he wanted to learn how to
play an instrument.
So he told my [D#] parents he wanted to play the bass.
They bought him a little four string Ibanez bass.
It was red with a black pick guard.
It was like a Fender, their version of a Fender [C#m] jazz bass, a P bass.
And he brought it [E] home.
He just never got it back.
That's all I can say.
He never got it back.
I like the sound of it.
[D#] So I continued playing sax and I just started messing around [C#m] with the bass.
Playing a lot of melodies, which I know you're not supposed [F#m] to do.
But just establishing [C#m] my own voice.
From there, I did get some lessons, some formal lessons on reading music [F#m] and learning where
to put your hands and [C#m] the real techniques to finger picking and slapping.
Your scales, your minor scales, your major scales, your blues scales, which most of that
I had known from playing the [C#] saxophone.
The only thing was just different for me translating that to the bass as far as reading music,
making the transition from treble clef to bass [G] clef.
That's where I got my [E] start.
I started off in church and I just never looked back.
I just stuck with the bass.
[F#] All right.
So do you have any advice for these young musicians that are looking up to bass players
in this new generation?
Yeah, what I would say is I've noticed a lack of [B] understanding and wanting [E] to learn.
Young kids have a desire to play their instruments that they want, but they don't really [F#] have
a desire to go [E] home and practice or invest the time and the money and the effort into
learning to play an instrument.
[N] You see all the [C#m] flash and the glamour of playing [E] licks and all these special things that bass players do.
But [D#] when it comes to following songs on a service or following the piano [C#m] player, using
your ear, a lot of musicians lack that.
They just can't figure out [A#m] how to do that.
And that's because you're not sitting at [E] home.
You're not taking the time going in the woodshed and learning your craft.
You just want to [C#] come and already know how to play.
And that's just not how it works.
And I've noticed a lot of musicians [C#m] in churches that _ [F#m] they just don't want to [C#] take the time.
It is right [C#m] there at that moment.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I want to learn that.
I'm going to do that.
But when it comes down to it, you're not taking the time at your [D#] house.
You know, one of the things I did taking lessons, [C#m] my parents stressed to me was, you know,
take a tape recorder.
Back then it was tape recorders.
Now you have phones.
You can record this stuff.
But [C#] record it, take it home and replay it.
Because in a 30 minute or an hour lesson, 45 minute lesson, you forget what was said.
You forget what you were taught.
And that way you can keep going over and over.
Not only that, it helps develop your ear.
Because if you're not [B] reading notes and you're taking lessons with someone who is not [G#] necessarily
teaching you how to read by note, you can listen to what they're doing and [D#] try to figure that out.
Use your ear to figure out what they're playing, you know, as well [A#m] as even watching it.
But a [G#m] lot of days now we just have what we call YouTube learners.
And they just get on [A#m] YouTube and they learn the lick to this song that someone played
in a [G#m] gospel song or contemporary Christian song.
[E] They learn that song just the way, you know, someone's teaching them on YouTube.
And you're not really taking the time to learn it yourself and figure out what it was, you
know, off of a CD and listening to it or getting the sheet music and then learning it with the CD.
[F#m] I just felt [G#] that's a big deal.
And if you would do [G#] that, if musicians would do that, I think that we would have this,
[Em] you know, transition of musicality amongst, you know, the older musicians into the younger musicians.
They just don't seem [F#] to want it.
So I say you need to really [Em] realize that I need to work hard at this in order to put
my best foot forward before God.
I hear a lot of people say [N] that, you know, we're just going to go, we know it and we're
just going to wing it and let the anointing take you.
If you don't [E] put the time in, you know how much better God wants us to put our best [B] foot
forward, our best for him.
And so if we put in the time and [C#m] then we pray for God to anoint us and use us, there's no
telling what God can do for you.
And I believe that's what [E] makes you successful in Christ.
What church do you play at and [D#] how long you've been playing there?
Right now I play for [C#m] Revival Center United Pentecostal Church in Modesto, California,
[F#m] and I've been playing there for [C#] about, man, probably about 16 [C#m] years.
And [G#] I played a couple other small churches.
I help out some small churches on Sunday mornings [C#m] and during the week from time to time, different
things, different conferences.
There's a church in Tracy, California, New Creation Bible Fellowship, and I enjoy playing
there with a good group [C#] of musicians.
And then I also play in Tracy across town at a United [E] Pentecostal Church there as well.
And it's just good times, man.
You get to help churches out.
Some of the churches don't have a lot of talent in their churches, and [C#] so it's such a blessing
to be a blessing to churches and the people.
It just makes the worship easier for [E] them and ushering in the presence of God.
And then from time to time we do conferences.
You get called to do a conference, and that's always fun.
You hang out with your friends, and you know, you're at a little higher level.
You're operating at a higher level there at the conference.
Usually you have music you had to [G#] actually sit down and go through and learn [E] and have
specific hits that have to be hit at a certain time and whatnot.
[G] So it's always fun, man.
So where can we [F#] find you on [E] social media?
Well, I have an email address.
You can hit me up on my email if you have any questions.
It's ddgcms [F#] at hotmail.com.
I'm also on Facebook.
I'm just searching my name, Danny Gregory.
And as well as Instagram, you can hit me up at Official D.Gray.
So if you have any [A] _ _ _
[E] questions, I'm a better musician.
[F#] Thank you for this.
And I just want to say thank you to [E] Danny Gregory for taking
Just wanted to give a big shout out and say thank you to Danny Gregory for joining us today.
So just a little quick [G#m] question.
A lot of people on YouTube [B] wanted to know what you play.
So can you give us a little breakdown on that?
Alright, well I [C#m] play MTD basses.
This is an MTD 535 and [A] I've owned two of these basses.
I love the way they feel.
[C#m] I've always said that MTDs, they just pretty much play themselves.
You just gotta put your hands on it [C#] and the bass does all the work.
[C#m] And I use Mogami cables.
_ I use a Groove Gear [E] strap and for strings I'm [C#] switching it out pretty constantly.
Right now I'm using [F#] Sadowski, the stainless [G#] steel, black label, round [C#m] wound, 135-45.
I use EBS amps and speakers and I'm not endorsed by any of these companies.
I just use this stuff because I like the way it [C#] sounds.
And that's what I would like to tell everyone is [F#] find what works for you.
Find what you like to do and save up your money.
Go play a lot of stuff.
Some of the stuff you can't find at your local guitar center.
So just search out music shops that have this kind of gear and try to establish your own
sound and your own voice [A#m] on the instrument.
And the rest is history.
So how long have you been playing bass and how did you start playing the bass?
Uh man, I've been playing for about probably about like 20 years.
I wasn't really too serious in the beginning.
I originally started off as a [A] saxophone player playing in church and in [G#] band, jazz band.
That's where I got my start and what happened was my brother, he wanted to learn how to
play an instrument.
So he told my [D#] parents he wanted to play the bass.
They bought him a little four string Ibanez bass.
It was red with a black pick guard.
It was like a Fender, their version of a Fender [C#m] jazz bass, a P bass.
And he brought it [E] home.
He just never got it back.
That's all I can say.
He never got it back.
I like the sound of it.
[D#] So I continued playing sax and I just started messing around [C#m] with the bass.
Playing a lot of melodies, which I know you're not supposed [F#m] to do.
But just establishing [C#m] my own voice.
From there, I did get some lessons, some formal lessons on reading music [F#m] and learning where
to put your hands and [C#m] the real techniques to finger picking and slapping.
Your scales, your minor scales, your major scales, your blues scales, which most of that
I had known from playing the [C#] saxophone.
The only thing was just different for me translating that to the bass as far as reading music,
making the transition from treble clef to bass [G] clef.
That's where I got my [E] start.
I started off in church and I just never looked back.
I just stuck with the bass.
[F#] All right.
So do you have any advice for these young musicians that are looking up to bass players
in this new generation?
Yeah, what I would say is I've noticed a lack of [B] understanding and wanting [E] to learn.
Young kids have a desire to play their instruments that they want, but they don't really [F#] have
a desire to go [E] home and practice or invest the time and the money and the effort into
learning to play an instrument.
[N] You see all the [C#m] flash and the glamour of playing [E] licks and all these special things that bass players do.
But [D#] when it comes to following songs on a service or following the piano [C#m] player, using
your ear, a lot of musicians lack that.
They just can't figure out [A#m] how to do that.
And that's because you're not sitting at [E] home.
You're not taking the time going in the woodshed and learning your craft.
You just want to [C#] come and already know how to play.
And that's just not how it works.
And I've noticed a lot of musicians [C#m] in churches that _ [F#m] they just don't want to [C#] take the time.
It is right [C#m] there at that moment.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I want to learn that.
I'm going to do that.
But when it comes down to it, you're not taking the time at your [D#] house.
You know, one of the things I did taking lessons, [C#m] my parents stressed to me was, you know,
take a tape recorder.
Back then it was tape recorders.
Now you have phones.
You can record this stuff.
But [C#] record it, take it home and replay it.
Because in a 30 minute or an hour lesson, 45 minute lesson, you forget what was said.
You forget what you were taught.
And that way you can keep going over and over.
Not only that, it helps develop your ear.
Because if you're not [B] reading notes and you're taking lessons with someone who is not [G#] necessarily
teaching you how to read by note, you can listen to what they're doing and [D#] try to figure that out.
Use your ear to figure out what they're playing, you know, as well [A#m] as even watching it.
But a [G#m] lot of days now we just have what we call YouTube learners.
And they just get on [A#m] YouTube and they learn the lick to this song that someone played
in a [G#m] gospel song or contemporary Christian song.
[E] They learn that song just the way, you know, someone's teaching them on YouTube.
And you're not really taking the time to learn it yourself and figure out what it was, you
know, off of a CD and listening to it or getting the sheet music and then learning it with the CD.
[F#m] I just felt [G#] that's a big deal.
And if you would do [G#] that, if musicians would do that, I think that we would have this,
[Em] you know, transition of musicality amongst, you know, the older musicians into the younger musicians.
They just don't seem [F#] to want it.
So I say you need to really [Em] realize that I need to work hard at this in order to put
my best foot forward before God.
I hear a lot of people say [N] that, you know, we're just going to go, we know it and we're
just going to wing it and let the anointing take you.
If you don't [E] put the time in, you know how much better God wants us to put our best [B] foot
forward, our best for him.
And so if we put in the time and [C#m] then we pray for God to anoint us and use us, there's no
telling what God can do for you.
And I believe that's what [E] makes you successful in Christ.
What church do you play at and [D#] how long you've been playing there?
Right now I play for [C#m] Revival Center United Pentecostal Church in Modesto, California,
[F#m] and I've been playing there for [C#] about, man, probably about 16 [C#m] years.
And [G#] I played a couple other small churches.
I help out some small churches on Sunday mornings [C#m] and during the week from time to time, different
things, different conferences.
There's a church in Tracy, California, New Creation Bible Fellowship, and I enjoy playing
there with a good group [C#] of musicians.
And then I also play in Tracy across town at a United [E] Pentecostal Church there as well.
And it's just good times, man.
You get to help churches out.
Some of the churches don't have a lot of talent in their churches, and [C#] so it's such a blessing
to be a blessing to churches and the people.
It just makes the worship easier for [E] them and ushering in the presence of God.
And then from time to time we do conferences.
You get called to do a conference, and that's always fun.
You hang out with your friends, and you know, you're at a little higher level.
You're operating at a higher level there at the conference.
Usually you have music you had to [G#] actually sit down and go through and learn [E] and have
specific hits that have to be hit at a certain time and whatnot.
[G] So it's always fun, man.
So where can we [F#] find you on [E] social media?
Well, I have an email address.
You can hit me up on my email if you have any questions.
It's ddgcms [F#] at hotmail.com.
I'm also on Facebook.
I'm just searching my name, Danny Gregory.
And as well as Instagram, you can hit me up at Official D.Gray.
So if you have any [A] _ _ _
[E] questions, I'm a better musician.
[F#] Thank you for this.
And I just want to say thank you to [E] Danny Gregory for taking