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[seventhe]

So! I really like playing the drums!

It doesn't entirely come as a surprise. I've wanted to play drums since I was in second grade and it was time to pick our instruments and I asked the music teacher if I could play the drums; he looked at me and said "Sorry, Jessy, but girls don't play drums; why don't you try this nice flute instead." That wasn't necessarily a bad choice because I did like playing flute - I almost majored in it. But it still wasn't my first pick.

It's like piano, in a way, or all the things I liked about piano. I played percussion instruments in HS, too - the marimba, xylophone, all the "keyboard" percussion instruments. The thing I like most about piano is keeping a rhythm: filling in the background of a song with some kind of syncopated something. I'm not really fond of soloing (although that may just be because I'm horrible at it!); what I really like is hitting those jazz chords while people play over it.

Drumming is fun. I've always had a good sense of natural rhythm - better than my natural talent, really - and the problem is really just getting my hands (and feet) to go along with the rhythm in my head. With more practicing I'm definitely getting better at that. I like it, even when it's just three or four losers in the basement playing "The Ballad of Chasey Lane" or something. We actually tried a couple "new" songs last night and they turned out to not be as hard as I thought they would've.

Just random. Hopefully we keep playing, even if it's never to go play out somewhere.

Comments

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

We'll keep playing. It's always a good time.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

As long as there's Yinpu.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

No. No more beer with foreskin.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Circumsized beer only for Bogdog, huh?

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

I don't want that stuff getting in my face, do you? NO. I didn't think so.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

No, no thank you very much. I'll stick to the normal beers.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Everytime I look around...it's in my face.

how bizarre, how bizarre.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I still don't believe Jeff sang "Don't Cha" without the rest of us there.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Me neither. Guess that just means he'll have to do it again.

P.s. we should play 12:51.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

We totally should, except that the Strokes drummer has like 5 arms or something.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

That song does not sound bad on the drums at all. Maybe my crappy computer speakers here hide something.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's an easy one. Some of the other songs are just ridiculous.

I am all for trying it though!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seems pretty easy overall. Would need 2 guitars for sure though.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Not one guitar and one banjo?

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Hmm I dunno maybe the riff would sound ok from that song on banjo...it would be funny ONE time then after that it would need to go away and never be heard from again.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a good point. We don't really want to invite more banjo than we can handle.

BOGDOG: ALL THE BANJO YOU CAN HANDLE.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Oh great, is it slogan time?

BOGDOG: BECAUSE HIDING YOUR MOST ATTRACTIVE MEMBER BEHIND A DRUMSET IS ALWAYS A GOOD MARKETING IDEA

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

BOGDOG: OUR DRUMMERS WEAR SKIRTS.

...wait...

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

yeah, good luck playing the drums in a skirt without giving everyone a free show.

Me: Why are people sitting on the floor of a bar to watch us?
Jeff: Don't ask.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

That'd basically be the plan. I could wear some obnoxiously ugly shorts underneath the skirt. And I'd be laughing the whole time.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Something with a really creepy face (or teeth) on it would be even better.

Like say, owl girl. heh

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Now I want Owl Girl panties.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

If I took off a girl's pants and owl girl was on her panties, I would probably piss myself laughing, after which I would declare my love for her. :O

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should sell them on the internet. You might meet your dream girl!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

I may just meet a bunch of fatties who love owl girl too. :(

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

You need to buck up and love on the fatties.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Honestly i've never really had any fatties have any interest in me...perhaps it is because I'm insensitive? Or maybe its my cologne, eau de no fat chicks.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Usually if a girl (who is insecure about her appearance) hears you making comments about the fucking disgusting fat chick at the next table, she isn't exactly going to express any interest in you.

XD

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

I know that...and its not really the way I feel anyway. As long as the girl I meet is cool I can deal with it, it's usually the pretty ones that have the defective personalities. :O

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Then maybe you should stop making fun of fat chicks. ;)

[darknitedestiny.livejournal.com]

HOW DARE HE.

Well, I'm really glad you're enjoying yourself! Rhythm is fun. I too, get bored with simple melody and soloing. To be honest, I never liked playing my flute alone. Only with a piano or band, and I think that's why I don't play anymore.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. If I'd known then what I know now, his ass would've been fired. However, I was like 8. XD

I DIDN'T KNOW YOU PLAYED FLUTE. STOP BEING MY TWIN AND STUFF.

[darknitedestiny.livejournal.com]

Aha!

I'd pick it up again, if I could find my favorite piece of music, which I lost. Y'don't happen to have an extra copy of Mozart's Concerto in G lying around, d'ya?

My tone quality could have used some work, but I was always good at fingering and tonguing.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I MIGHT. >.> Man, I haven't played that stuff in years. Basically once I hit college I descended into not-playing until I started up with the band again... at which point, I played Jethro Tull. ;)

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

Hey, Copycat Poster! Seriously, we just pretty much put up the same post at the same time! Weird. Anyway, I was impressed with your playing-you have excellent rhythm. And I told Poo, if you guys want to play out, Kurt is putting together a concert in Kent at Klub Khameleon on Aug. 10. He would love for bands to play to help promote his band session program. Of course, you guys would have to find a couple of CLEAN songs to do!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Aw, so we can't do "Chasey Lain" and "Chocolate Salty Balls", huh. Damn. ;)

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

You could, but it may drive all business away from Jam Session.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

That's a very good point. I think we would definitely be interested otherwise, if Kurt is serious. We will try to keep all of the "balls" jokes out of the songs though.

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

Kurt is serious about this. However, there is one band member, who is also commenting on this post, that will need to be sold on the idea.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I can convince him. It's called "cleavage". ;)

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

lalala not listening to your cleavage!

If you guys wanted to do it I would anyway, I didn't think anyone else would be interested but I guess I was WRONG!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Cleavage: HEY! HEY JAMES!!

No, we are definitely interested. If we can convince banjo boy, I'm all for it.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Me: I can't hear you, maybe if you took your shirt off... :P

Ooh, an italicized definitely, haha. Guess we better think of some clean songs then.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Cleavage: *muffled yell* HEY! THE SHIRT IS IN THE WAY!
Shirt: Right, sorry.

Yeah. We have one or two that we could pull together.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Fur Coat: Whoa, she has talking breastssss and a shirt.
Me: Fur coat? Where the fuck did you come from.
Fur Coat: Your dreams of being a pimp.
Pimp Cane: Hellz yeah.

/retarded.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OK, now I want the band to be "Bogdog and the Pimp Cane".

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

I could live with Bogdog and the Pimp Canes.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

It'd be totally sweet. I feel some wicked awesome shirts coming on.