So I played my first gig on Saturday night and had a blast.
I went in with no nervousness around all these great percussionists and just did my thing. Drove the music. And it was great! :)
The thing I am realizing now is that when I play, I used to play and think too much about what I was playing or what I will play next, now, I just think in sounds.
I now have the muscle memory (though not perfect yet) to know how to make my body make a sound on my kit or on the dumbek.
They are definitely two different skill sets.
AND there are SO many more sounds out there I want to make and make at the right time and in the right setting.
It's not that I am off timing or anything but more what goes with the rest of the music and the song.
It is a wonderful feeling making people move to your sounds. Especially beautiful women! ;)
Actually I enjoy making all people move but hey, I like what I like. :)
Anyway, if this is how it is going to be, I can't imagine myself not doing this for a very long time to come and hopefully with even more people involved.
Though the website needs some upgrading here is a link to the band site: Freakwitch. This is older music (pre-me) but we hope to have some worthwhile recordings going up in the near future.
Anyway, here is to the sound of music! *clink*
(Yeah that was cheesy and a bad reference, but oh well) ;)
4 comments:
1. "I just think in sounds" - NICE! Beautifully worded!
2. "This is older music (pre-me) but we hope to have some worthwhile recordings going up in the near future." OUCH! Did you not like their earlier stuff?
No I do enjoy the earlier stuff.
It's just that people have wanted to hear me play and we don't have any good recordings of it.
Or at least ones I want people to hear. ;)
To all those who want to hear BaronDrums on a Freakwitch recording: rest assured we do too. We've been working on recording for a long, long time. It's hard work. I would say we're working on it, but we've been saying that for years. We are making progress.
Soon. Very soon.
And, I can't even really say that I enjoy the earlier stuff. ;-)
I mean, it serves a purpose, the available recordings are more in the historical-record category than good-recording.
But there are without question a total of zero Freakwitch recordings in existence that I'm happy with, or that are releasable.
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