seventhe: (House: Bottoms Up!)
unfortunate hobo ([personal profile] seventhe) wrote2007-06-26 08:29 am

random

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.

[identity profile] first-seventhe.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I can convince him. It's called "cleavage". ;)

[identity profile] hilldo.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] first-seventhe.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Cleavage: HEY! HEY JAMES!!

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

[identity profile] hilldo.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] first-seventhe.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Cleavage: *muffled yell* HEY! THE SHIRT IS IN THE WAY!
Shirt: Right, sorry.

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

[identity profile] hilldo.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] first-seventhe.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, now I want the band to be "Bogdog and the Pimp Cane".

[identity profile] hilldo.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I could live with Bogdog and the Pimp Canes.

[identity profile] first-seventhe.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd be totally sweet. I feel some wicked awesome shirts coming on.