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 Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:01 am
Well yesterday, I think its safe to say that I had my first, real, jam session. I enjoyed myself.
There where two guitars, a vocalist keyboards, myself and another bassist. Though the other girl, who was clearly better than me on the bass, kept letting me play, wich I think was nice of her, aparently she hadn't played in a year and a half. Got a interesting tip on slapping, and she showed me a chord or two.
To be honest it was quite a busy sound, especially with Ian guitar battling Chris for lead guitar, and then there was Phil on keyboards who just banged away on the keyboards, made a interesting repoduction of the intro to metallica's one. Did the sound effects and everthing.
Anyway I found that as long as people started playing the same thing over, I could experiment and I efentually found some basslines that I think worked. They where simple in thier methnod and insanely basic to play. I just hung around on the top two strings, trying to figure out things that worked.
Towards the end I was following Chris on guitar, and we came up with a decient little song. Im going to practice my a** off I want to get better quicker.
So:
How often do you jam? Where do you pratcice, etc etc.
Do you practice/prepare alone for your jam sessions? If so how?
Any tips for me?
Anything els?
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:12 am
i jam every blue moon with people...
yes i do practice, play the songs that the people know for you know them and then you get a good feeling cause you can play along with everyone
practice your a** off and get better
and dont practice and over do yourself...take breaks and such since i actually got sick of bass cause i was forcing myself to keep playing
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:36 pm
i jam with my band probably 1nce every other weekend. and the only advice i can really give you is: well if you have a good ear just try to pic things up and play in the same chord progressions as the guitars, and every once in a while when it feels right make a fill (just wing it and see what happens). an exercise you can do with ur band is that you can just start a bluesy tune and improvise, just have fun! domokun
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:08 pm
Ha, we practice 2 or 3 times a week and all we do is jam and our jams turn into our songs, kinda weird because our songs never sound the same.
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Herr Kaiser Matthelm Captain
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:47 pm
Me and Naz jam usaly onece or twice a week. With work/girlfriends and me and collage, it can be a bit hard, but we make it happen. We usaly lission to some music that inspires us befor hand. Today we hade probly are best pratise. Lasted 'bout 5 hours. Sence me and him played in guitarclass in highschool for a few years...we play together rather nicely
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:48 pm
i usualli jam 2 or 3 times a week... at school coz we hog the band room and sumtimes we b***h out at my house.... .. i practice alot by my self... coz i gotta b a realli good bassist... i jus pick a few songs i kno (1z dat i have just recently learned or made up) and i play them repedatively...
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:19 pm
My band and I practice twice a week, once to run through our songs, and once to write new material and run through again.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:15 pm
I hope to be jammin with my cousin soon. Haven't seen him in two weeks. I have no band.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:31 pm
I went to one "testing" band practice, It went pretty horrible and I kind lost interest in a band for awhile. But one of my friends came over and we jammed on his tail gate for a few hours. The harmonica and acoustic bass have some fun prospects.
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