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2 What Can Be Said... just listen, huh? Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:34 am
Suss
Yeah Neph!
My take on this is that if all we have are buckets, drummers will make a beat out them as well. Forget the latest gear... rely upon the musical ability nascent within those called to the craft. For the rest, just enjoy the repeating patterns while listening to the changing phrases.
Nice man! I enjoyed it.
In fact just an hour ago I arrived home from a live gig where I was called last minute (my studio stuff was completed last night BTW). The evening was largely a blues/R&B night. No jazz at all. I had the pleasure of playing with a remarkable bass player for the first time. By the end of the evening after the sets were over, I got so constrained with the enforced "Thursday Night" idiom, that when others just started unhooking their equipment I said to myself "Self? Am I finished yet?"
Hell no! I broke into an afro-cuban drum pattern not too dissimilar from what I did on Boomer's "Conundrum," but more aggressive and in a different meter. I mean I literally just started soloing when the crowd thought the evening's entertainment was over.
The next thing I realized was that the bass player grabbed his axe (a "Rogue" open bodied fretless electric) and started fingering a fused melodic on top of the pattern that I was playing. Need I tell you? When he did that, we started trading off solos behind both the percussive pattern I was playing and the melodic pattern he was playing. It was totally inspired and quite up temp...
Was the evening over? Hell no... the next thing both he and I knew was that the band leader who called me got up behind his axe (a Fender Strat) and started playing yet another layer on what had already been established between us two. For the next 15 minutes trade offs occured among us three. I wish there was someone there to record that stuff. It was perfect and totally inspired. I needn't tell you that it didn't matter if there was NO ONE in the room. We were playing for ourselves... let those who understand it come to the music, rather than the making music come to them.
Great YouTube view Don... I enjoyed it. So where is my garbage can? I think I have some trash in there I'd like to recover!
My take on this is that if all we have are buckets, drummers will make a beat out them as well. Forget the latest gear... rely upon the musical ability nascent within those called to the craft. For the rest, just enjoy the repeating patterns while listening to the changing phrases.
Nice man! I enjoyed it.
In fact just an hour ago I arrived home from a live gig where I was called last minute (my studio stuff was completed last night BTW). The evening was largely a blues/R&B night. No jazz at all. I had the pleasure of playing with a remarkable bass player for the first time. By the end of the evening after the sets were over, I got so constrained with the enforced "Thursday Night" idiom, that when others just started unhooking their equipment I said to myself "Self? Am I finished yet?"
Hell no! I broke into an afro-cuban drum pattern not too dissimilar from what I did on Boomer's "Conundrum," but more aggressive and in a different meter. I mean I literally just started soloing when the crowd thought the evening's entertainment was over.
The next thing I realized was that the bass player grabbed his axe (a "Rogue" open bodied fretless electric) and started fingering a fused melodic on top of the pattern that I was playing. Need I tell you? When he did that, we started trading off solos behind both the percussive pattern I was playing and the melodic pattern he was playing. It was totally inspired and quite up temp...
Was the evening over? Hell no... the next thing both he and I knew was that the band leader who called me got up behind his axe (a Fender Strat) and started playing yet another layer on what had already been established between us two. For the next 15 minutes trade offs occured among us three. I wish there was someone there to record that stuff. It was perfect and totally inspired. I needn't tell you that it didn't matter if there was NO ONE in the room. We were playing for ourselves... let those who understand it come to the music, rather than the making music come to them.
Great YouTube view Don... I enjoyed it. So where is my garbage can? I think I have some trash in there I'd like to recover!
4 Re: Bucketbeats! Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:05 pm
Suss
D. Slam wrote:Welcome back, J Swell. Welcome back.
...hmmm, let's see: did I go somewhere or am I still out in the backyard lookin' for that trash can! LOL!
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