Magenta
Platinum Member
This evening our singer and I went to a newly-established jam night. It was so newly-established that there were only three other musicians there (another singer, another drummer and a guitarist) and not very many punters, but I had the time of my life!
I played one song that was in my repertoire, and a couple of others that weren't. The other drummer delegated "Hold The Line" to me, and while it was not quite the classic version, it most certainly wasn't a train wreck. I was actually astonished at how well it went. So was everybody else, haga!
The guitarist and I also did a bit of jamming together. It was only the second time I'd ever done this, but before long I was throwing in fills (tasteful and appropriate ones, natch) and bashing cymbals with gay abandon.
It was all so much more fun than the jam night we usually go to, where there's never any real jamming, just the same people performing the same songs. The five of us got on really well, and we're determined to keep it going, in this format, so that anybody can turn up and play.
If anybody had told me even last week that I'd be happily and confidently playing unfamiliar songs in public with people I'd never met before, I'd never have believed them. I can hardly wait to do it again!
I played one song that was in my repertoire, and a couple of others that weren't. The other drummer delegated "Hold The Line" to me, and while it was not quite the classic version, it most certainly wasn't a train wreck. I was actually astonished at how well it went. So was everybody else, haga!
The guitarist and I also did a bit of jamming together. It was only the second time I'd ever done this, but before long I was throwing in fills (tasteful and appropriate ones, natch) and bashing cymbals with gay abandon.
It was all so much more fun than the jam night we usually go to, where there's never any real jamming, just the same people performing the same songs. The five of us got on really well, and we're determined to keep it going, in this format, so that anybody can turn up and play.
If anybody had told me even last week that I'd be happily and confidently playing unfamiliar songs in public with people I'd never met before, I'd never have believed them. I can hardly wait to do it again!