rwillett Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, jimmyb625 said: Music is an art. If you want perfection be an aeronautical engineer. Unless you work for Boeing... Ooohh, harsh, but fair... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Don't do Jam nights, same old songs, usually the blues, with long solos for the guitard to show off, but if you think you're bad I was doing an open mic once, playing guitar, and a bass player asked if he could join in, I said "sure we'll do 500 miles, same 3 notes in the same order all the way through" thinking how easy it would be, somehow managed to make a right mess of it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 I went but they started early and I didn’t get chance to jam with drummer. Did chat to singer from train wreck night though and also a potential new member 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorris Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 10 hours ago, PaulWarning said: Don't do Jam nights, same old songs, usually the blues, with long solos for the guitard to show off, but if you think you're bad I was doing an open mic once, playing guitar, and a bass player asked if he could join in, I said "sure we'll do 500 miles, same 3 notes in the same order all the way through" thinking how easy it would be, somehow managed to make a right mess of it So I don't want to put people off doing what they want to do - but isn't a "Jam Night" often more accurately a "Clique Night". And often conflated with an "Open Mic". Last Open Mic I did with a singer songwriter type I know was going okay until someone running it decided my bass was too loud and turned it down. Top Stuff 🙄 Now I can't hear myself and the singer's "loose" sense of time means I can't compensate. Magic 😳 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteb Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) 1 hour ago, rmorris said: So I don't want to put people off doing what they want to do - but isn't a "Jam Night" often more accurately a "Clique Night". And often conflated with an "Open Mic". Last Open Mic I did with a singer songwriter type I know was going okay until someone running it decided my bass was too loud and turned it down. Top Stuff 🙄 Now I can't hear myself and the singer's "loose" sense of time means I can't compensate. Magic 😳 There are jam nights and jam nights, often confused with the dreaded open mic nights. To me, a jam session should be where you get a group of musicians together to play through a song or musical idea that someone has that hasn't been rehearsed before. The idea is that you don't have a firm arrangement or know exactly where it is going to go, but you follow whoever has an idea that might take it to different places. Therefore someone might extend a solo (hopefully not too long), then give you a nod when they want to finish, someone might want to bring it down or even to try to a reggae feel over a middle eight or whatever. It encourages people to listen, support whoever is soloing and get used to busking. Of course, if you have guys who are not used to doing stuff like that or even being onstage, then it's about helping them get through the song until the end. Obviously, it's not going to work every time, but often it can be great as well as give you new ideas and improve your playing. Edited March 21 by peteb 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 @peteb Agree. A jam night 'should' be a group of musicians playing over a chord progression and bouncing off each other. An open night is where people bring their material to perform. However, I'm finding the youngsters aren't able to jam, and it's more usual to be playing standards that everyone is familiar with, but still swaping around musicians. A well run Jam night requires a leader to schedule people in and out after each song. There's no reason why @Geek99 shouldn't have had a spot, regardless of how late they were. It's the job of the organiser to ensure everyone gets a shot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 They started late and they knew it. They started earlier this time, which is why i missed my drummer jam spot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 So you played? Just not with the drummer? How did it go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted July 3 Author Share Posted July 3 Huge thanks @greghagger for today and helping make some sense of these events above as well as other topics 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knirirr Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 On 21/03/2024 at 22:00, rmorris said: but isn't a "Jam Night" often more accurately a "Clique Night". It can be... I'm reminded of one where both modern jazz horn players and gypsy jazz guitarists turn up in varying proportions and call their preferred material. It was ... interesting ... to see the latter group trying to strum their way through So What recently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greghagger Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 On 03/07/2024 at 13:46, Geek99 said: Huge thanks @greghagger for today and helping make some sense of these events above as well as other topics My pleasure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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