More than surprise, doubt or self debate on “mysterious senses”, my main memory of that experience is one of delight; the magic of perception and perceiving.
7 March 2011
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13 December 2010
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I (Almost) Love My DB-90!
It must be said that learning to play the washboard alongside blues guitarist/singers who are used to playing alone has it’s downsides, and in my case the one I’m still fighting the most with is that I learned how to follow the lead musician’s rhythms and not how to hold a steady beat. This was noticed during Swamp Train’s week in Bellwald last October and I was asked to use a “click track” which in that case was just sticking on earphones with a metronome beat. To everyone’s surprise it worked OK, mainly because, thanks to Bill, I have been practicing with a metronome long enough for it already to have gone from being my enemy to being my friend. About 3 years…
1 October 2010
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Never Too Late For Drumming! T-Shirt
The Blurb: Never Too Late For Drumming!
Midlife crisis, or just feeling bored? Our cure: go out and buy a drum set. A humorous drummer’s t-shirt with a drum playing skeleton and the funny saying: It’s never too late to be drumming!
30 September 2010
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More Snare Or Less Snare?
Every once in a while these last years someone in the blues band I play in would ask “why don’t you get a snare?” And I would answer “because I’m happy with my washboard and bones, and have enough to learn already”. But sometime last winter Blaise, who already had and old drum set lying around, bought a newer one (used) and so as much out of curiosity as anything I pick up his old snare and added it to my set. I had mixed feeling about this, one being the worry that if I actually learned how to use it, I might be pushing the band towards and more electric blues style that I wasn’t sure I actually wanted to be playing. But temptation comes in all forms and there it was…