There is Middle Eastern drumming that you can use for worship because it doesn’t sound like belly dancing:

The reason I’m mentioning this is just to show something with a drum that still has a sense of reverence and God’s heavenly otherness while also connoting a kind of intimacy that isn’t the same as love ballads. It’s clearly possible, because the Old Testament mentions percussion instruments in worship. Whatever music we write now for worshipping God, I think should aim for at least these things.

A lot of what I hear about God, whether in music or in words, makes God out to be something that demands only as much respect as a product of my imagination – and if it’s a product of my imagination, I am God over it. This is a problem that we have to remedy by talking about God according to what his revelation emphasizes about him.