Some improv with my buds

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Two of my best friends came down from New England this weekend and after a few hours of drinking along the beach we came back to my place for some jamming. My buddy Jay is playing drums on a keyboard and Nick is plugged into my Triton rack. I was too inebriated to separate the MIDI channels or I would have actually recorded this in Logic but both keyboards were triggering Superior Drummer and Opus at the same time.

Thanks to hearing that 20+ minute improv at the end of the first LTE album, our high school years were spent doing this for hours. A couple sections last night weren’t complete trainwrecks. :rofl





We gave Echo a tambourine but he wasn’t feeling like jamming.

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That looks like so much fun! :banana

Improv has always been my most favourite thing about playing/making music
with others. When it's on bring on the goosebumps! :cheers

I even used to record EVERY band practice/rehearsal.... because I didn't when
"it" was going to happen. :rawk
 
la szum said:
That looks like so much fun! :banana

Improv has always been my most favourite thing about playing/making music
with others. When it's on bring on the goosebumps! :cheers

I even used to record EVERY band practice/rehearsal.... because I didn't when
"it" was going to happen. :rawk
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It’s definitely my favorite thing to do in a band setting. I really wish I had a kit setup for Jay to play because even though we rarely get to do it, our foundational listening/influences are the same and I’ve never been in sync with another musician like I am with him. We’d be laughing our asses off during improvs when we’d pull off a syncopated fill/lick going into another section without discussing it first and we’d know when the other is going to start rockin’ or bringing things down.

And improv is how I’ve auditioned every drummer I’ve ever had since high school, I’ve only come across a couple who hated jamming and their musical sensibilities reflected that!
 
Improv is the way, the truth, and the light


that’s why my band has been firmly planting ourselves in the jam band scene, despite not really sounding much like a box of “natures own” granola bars :LOL:
 
DrewJD82 said:
It’s definitely my favorite thing to do in a band setting. I really wish I had a kit setup for Jay to play because even though we rarely get to do it, our foundational listening/influences are the same and I’ve never been in sync with another musician like I am with him. We’d be laughing our asses off during improvs when we’d pull off a syncopated fill/lick going into another section without discussing it first and we’d know when the other is going to start rockin’ or bringing things down.

And improv is how I’ve auditioned every drummer I’ve ever had since high school, I’ve only come across a couple who hated jamming and their musical sensibilities reflected that!
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Yes! :beer

So many great guitarist/drummer combos who are/were the foundation of a band,
and songwriting team. Alex and Edward. Vinnie and Dime. Poppa Het and Lars.
Petrucci and Portnoy! :love

Locking in like that and having borderline telepathic communication is kind of a
miracle. Makes you wonder what we are all capable of as people, and not just as
musicians. :unsure:
 
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