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shermaramaA very musical weekend - SON on Sunday, though I had a heinous hangover and was only anything approaching fully functional for the short interval after I'd recovered from the worst of it, to the point of getting really hungry which is always a good sign, and before the the blood sugar crash brought on by digestion after I stuffed my face.
Still. New stuff has become a little more coherent. But Oz has decided he's not going to do backing vocals any more, to concentrate on the drumming. His singing style is monster shouting but there's a couple of songs where it's particularly effective, and places where he's put in off-beat lyric patterns that sound great but that I can't reproduce, *hangs head in shame*, so this is a real loss to the sound. There's some choruses I've got a good handle on, Can't Complain and Veinstorm and Black Dahlia all work fine with just me and Paul, but I think I'm terribly unconvincing on Breakdown without Oz.
And, as of Saturday, I feel I can now call myself a drummer. First rehearsal with the Bad Fucks. The guitarist does not know how to tune his guitar. No-one apart from me knows how to work a PA, and I thought I'd left that behind when I left the all-girl band.. But, I'm a pretty terrible drummer right at the minute and have no real leg to stand on. Though that's OK, you get a nice gas-lift drum throne at Monster. *inserts drum roll* (hey, I've got a stock of them here and all...) It was a strange contrast to be sitting down, where normally an evening rehearsal can be hard on the shoulders and also the feet if you've been doing standing work all day, but to be far more knackered than usual by the end. I must remember to take more to drink with me next time, which is this Thursday *cheers* as the activity level is along the lines of doing patterns in tae kwon do. It's not outright CV like running or jumping around or full sparring, nor is it static or slow moving stamina stuff that makes muscle groups squeal. However, though this is stating the obvious it seems worth summing it up, it's moving all the limbs, often in combination, some with considerable speed or exertion; and moving your torso around to reach different parts of the kit, and rather than being able to set yourself to one task to keep up for a while, you have to concentrate and keep on changing pattern, as well as try and keep time. There's several parts going on at once and some of them, like punk-speed eighths on a floor tom, would take quite a lot of energy to do just in isolation, never mind concurrent with the other parts and the concentrating. I knew it ought to be but I'm still glad that it is, a good work-out and a satisfying use of a body.
Starting with a crappy punk band is sort of traditional. But I'm not certain it's the easiest place from a drumming point of view. I could keep up six-minute indie dirges of no great speed with far greater ease than frantic one-minute idiot punk - the whole set may be laughably short but that means you just play everything more times in rehearsal... But I'd only end up exerting myself through throttling people in exasperation if I found myself doing indie dirges so hey, perhaps this is for the best.
Still. New stuff has become a little more coherent. But Oz has decided he's not going to do backing vocals any more, to concentrate on the drumming. His singing style is monster shouting but there's a couple of songs where it's particularly effective, and places where he's put in off-beat lyric patterns that sound great but that I can't reproduce, *hangs head in shame*, so this is a real loss to the sound. There's some choruses I've got a good handle on, Can't Complain and Veinstorm and Black Dahlia all work fine with just me and Paul, but I think I'm terribly unconvincing on Breakdown without Oz.
And, as of Saturday, I feel I can now call myself a drummer. First rehearsal with the Bad Fucks. The guitarist does not know how to tune his guitar. No-one apart from me knows how to work a PA, and I thought I'd left that behind when I left the all-girl band.. But, I'm a pretty terrible drummer right at the minute and have no real leg to stand on. Though that's OK, you get a nice gas-lift drum throne at Monster. *inserts drum roll* (hey, I've got a stock of them here and all...) It was a strange contrast to be sitting down, where normally an evening rehearsal can be hard on the shoulders and also the feet if you've been doing standing work all day, but to be far more knackered than usual by the end. I must remember to take more to drink with me next time, which is this Thursday *cheers* as the activity level is along the lines of doing patterns in tae kwon do. It's not outright CV like running or jumping around or full sparring, nor is it static or slow moving stamina stuff that makes muscle groups squeal. However, though this is stating the obvious it seems worth summing it up, it's moving all the limbs, often in combination, some with considerable speed or exertion; and moving your torso around to reach different parts of the kit, and rather than being able to set yourself to one task to keep up for a while, you have to concentrate and keep on changing pattern, as well as try and keep time. There's several parts going on at once and some of them, like punk-speed eighths on a floor tom, would take quite a lot of energy to do just in isolation, never mind concurrent with the other parts and the concentrating. I knew it ought to be but I'm still glad that it is, a good work-out and a satisfying use of a body.
Starting with a crappy punk band is sort of traditional. But I'm not certain it's the easiest place from a drumming point of view. I could keep up six-minute indie dirges of no great speed with far greater ease than frantic one-minute idiot punk - the whole set may be laughably short but that means you just play everything more times in rehearsal... But I'd only end up exerting myself through throttling people in exasperation if I found myself doing indie dirges so hey, perhaps this is for the best.
