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...sorry to disapoint those of you who thought this might be a post on sticking technique.
However, in keeping with my long established band/girlfriend analogy, last night I jammed for the first time since my former band went splitto.
There are a couple of guys that I work with who all have various degrees of musical proficiency. One guy in particular is a well respected and seasoned guitar player, singer songwriter with a strong y'allternative country bent. We had been kicking around this idea about getting together to jam for over a year, and last night was our first go.
As far as first dates go, this one went very well. There were three of us, two guitars (acoustics with pick ups), and myself on drums. There is no question that Dale is the leader, as he is the more polished, experienced and musical savy of us all. There will be some other guitar, bass, and hopefully keyboard players gravitating through this new mix. My evil plan is to use this to generate a little more interest and encourage some of the other closet musicians to come out and jam. If we can generate enough of am interest I am hoping that we can weasle some support from the company and turn this into an employee team building exersize.
I am probably getting ahead of myself, but I am very encouraged by our first go. My main goal in this is to take a more active role with the vocals. The songs we did last night were all grey ponytail standards, so I was pretty comfortable adding my ooooo waa ooohs and my wah wah whoahs. I can sing more naturally than I can play, but I am no Slim Whitman by any means. Trying to sing and play is like learning how to do both all over again. Some of the DNA tunes were easier to sing to, and from what I could hear, we blended pretty well at times. At other times, we sounded like a polite argument.
As I said earlier, I am very positive about this. The drumming will not be overly complicated, as the songs are pretty simple and drum friendly. The challenge will be in singing and playing together. I found so far that I have to learn to change my breathing, especially when transitioning in or out of a fill when a "Knock Knock Knockin on Heavens Dooooooah" is required. I bought a head mike so I don't have to sword fight with a mike stand or get my moustache tangled in the windscreen.
Looks like our Mondays are back on.
Barry
However, in keeping with my long established band/girlfriend analogy, last night I jammed for the first time since my former band went splitto.
There are a couple of guys that I work with who all have various degrees of musical proficiency. One guy in particular is a well respected and seasoned guitar player, singer songwriter with a strong y'allternative country bent. We had been kicking around this idea about getting together to jam for over a year, and last night was our first go.
As far as first dates go, this one went very well. There were three of us, two guitars (acoustics with pick ups), and myself on drums. There is no question that Dale is the leader, as he is the more polished, experienced and musical savy of us all. There will be some other guitar, bass, and hopefully keyboard players gravitating through this new mix. My evil plan is to use this to generate a little more interest and encourage some of the other closet musicians to come out and jam. If we can generate enough of am interest I am hoping that we can weasle some support from the company and turn this into an employee team building exersize.
I am probably getting ahead of myself, but I am very encouraged by our first go. My main goal in this is to take a more active role with the vocals. The songs we did last night were all grey ponytail standards, so I was pretty comfortable adding my ooooo waa ooohs and my wah wah whoahs. I can sing more naturally than I can play, but I am no Slim Whitman by any means. Trying to sing and play is like learning how to do both all over again. Some of the DNA tunes were easier to sing to, and from what I could hear, we blended pretty well at times. At other times, we sounded like a polite argument.
As I said earlier, I am very positive about this. The drumming will not be overly complicated, as the songs are pretty simple and drum friendly. The challenge will be in singing and playing together. I found so far that I have to learn to change my breathing, especially when transitioning in or out of a fill when a "Knock Knock Knockin on Heavens Dooooooah" is required. I bought a head mike so I don't have to sword fight with a mike stand or get my moustache tangled in the windscreen.
Looks like our Mondays are back on.
Barry