DrummerBoy95
Senior Member
Have you ever felt you had more fun drumming along to some more mainstream or electronic music? Anyways, here's what happened to me yesterday:
On Friday, I got a call from a friend from school who told me that she and her friends decided at the last minute to sign up to play at our school fair. She'd asked me if it was possible that I learn a few songs so as to drum along with the rest of the band she and her friends had set up. I said okay, but that was a few months ago. I had no idea she still had that in mind, and she caught me by surprise.
Anyways, the thing is I was lucky I actually knew the songs. So yesterday morning, I got my father to help me move my kit to school. The stage was set up in open air, and it surprised me because I thought it was going to be more of a talent show-ish sort of thing. So I set up my kit, and waited for the rest of the band. Everyone eventually arrived, and we sound checked.
I actually accepted to drum with the band because I didn't really have anything else planned (my band's guitarist went on vacation), and I'm always happy to drum live. I wasn't really expecting the show to be good, and I didn't think I'd have much fun either honestly.
I ended up rather surprised, because I hadn't really ever played with the other musicians, but we played pretty tight. I had lots of fun, surprisingly, playing along to pretty known songs, so there were a bunch of people singing along. The setlist was:
- Crazy In Love - Beyonce
- Baby Boy - "
- Pokerface - Lady Gaga
- S&M - Rihanna
- Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z
- Get Right - Jennifer Lopez
- Buttons - The Pussy Cat Dolls (I profoundly hate the song, but I have to admit it sounded (and looked) great)
That was all that we had "rehearsed", but the audience was really loving it, and they encored us. We were out of songs and the girls were tired, so the guitarist suggested we play Smooth (Santana) and we did; it was my favorite song of the evening, the guitarist was pretty amazing with the Santana-esque solos. And the guy who rapped on Crazy In Love, Empire State of Mind and Get Right decided he wanted to "sing" another one (I'm lucky I do listen to the radio sometimes) which was Got Money (Lil' Wayne); I got to admit it was pretty epic to have people sing along the lyrics and even if I didn't really do much than snare-bass drum most of the time (occasionally a groovy fill), I had a great time. A girl also stepped up and got us to play Raise your Glass and You & Your Hand by P!nk which were a little more rock & roll but the audience also knew the lyrics! I ended up reaaaally tired, it'd been a while since I'd played more than 6 songs at a gig, but I had so much fun that I just didn't get tired
Honestly, I think it was one of the best, if not the best concert I've played in my life. It was totally different from what I'm used to playing (prog. metal with my old band, and now more instrumental rock i.e Jethro Tull & Santana with my more recent band) I'd NEVER played rap/pop/etc live, and less still listen to it, or even really practiced it at home, but I had lots of fun, I'm actually considering trying to get the band together again and play more gigs.
It's just something I wanted to share, and I'm curious if anyone feels or has felt the same thing.
Santiago L.
On Friday, I got a call from a friend from school who told me that she and her friends decided at the last minute to sign up to play at our school fair. She'd asked me if it was possible that I learn a few songs so as to drum along with the rest of the band she and her friends had set up. I said okay, but that was a few months ago. I had no idea she still had that in mind, and she caught me by surprise.
Anyways, the thing is I was lucky I actually knew the songs. So yesterday morning, I got my father to help me move my kit to school. The stage was set up in open air, and it surprised me because I thought it was going to be more of a talent show-ish sort of thing. So I set up my kit, and waited for the rest of the band. Everyone eventually arrived, and we sound checked.
I actually accepted to drum with the band because I didn't really have anything else planned (my band's guitarist went on vacation), and I'm always happy to drum live. I wasn't really expecting the show to be good, and I didn't think I'd have much fun either honestly.
I ended up rather surprised, because I hadn't really ever played with the other musicians, but we played pretty tight. I had lots of fun, surprisingly, playing along to pretty known songs, so there were a bunch of people singing along. The setlist was:
- Crazy In Love - Beyonce
- Baby Boy - "
- Pokerface - Lady Gaga
- S&M - Rihanna
- Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z
- Get Right - Jennifer Lopez
- Buttons - The Pussy Cat Dolls (I profoundly hate the song, but I have to admit it sounded (and looked) great)
That was all that we had "rehearsed", but the audience was really loving it, and they encored us. We were out of songs and the girls were tired, so the guitarist suggested we play Smooth (Santana) and we did; it was my favorite song of the evening, the guitarist was pretty amazing with the Santana-esque solos. And the guy who rapped on Crazy In Love, Empire State of Mind and Get Right decided he wanted to "sing" another one (I'm lucky I do listen to the radio sometimes) which was Got Money (Lil' Wayne); I got to admit it was pretty epic to have people sing along the lyrics and even if I didn't really do much than snare-bass drum most of the time (occasionally a groovy fill), I had a great time. A girl also stepped up and got us to play Raise your Glass and You & Your Hand by P!nk which were a little more rock & roll but the audience also knew the lyrics! I ended up reaaaally tired, it'd been a while since I'd played more than 6 songs at a gig, but I had so much fun that I just didn't get tired
Honestly, I think it was one of the best, if not the best concert I've played in my life. It was totally different from what I'm used to playing (prog. metal with my old band, and now more instrumental rock i.e Jethro Tull & Santana with my more recent band) I'd NEVER played rap/pop/etc live, and less still listen to it, or even really practiced it at home, but I had lots of fun, I'm actually considering trying to get the band together again and play more gigs.
It's just something I wanted to share, and I'm curious if anyone feels or has felt the same thing.
Santiago L.