The 5th Jamming Session

Wednesday night as it is, planned for another jamming session. Last Sunday Yulius didn't came, i went to his place got my dvds and cds, he decided not to join us for his personal reason.

Me and Jordan agreed to have a carpool, this time he's driving us there, so i left my car at Tmn Shamelin. He came like as he never got home, just finished from his work. Along the way, we were talking most about Dave Grohl, Nirvana's drummer. He said he wanted to stay overnight at cy's place, but since i'm carpooling with him, he had to send me back to fetch my car. He had his Sitar installed pick ups, still in the workshop. So for our performance, he'll play 3 instruments, if i'm not mistaken, to fit in the 3 joint songs we've planned to play.

Keng (the studio owner, we met him in Bangsar as he's the organiser of the gig. I'm not sure how cy knew him ever since, but he's kinda fond with ck. He's the one inviting ck's band, One Way Street to perform but unfortunately, ck's band members went overseas for studies.) was in Singapore, so his buddies came to open the shop for us. Funny thing was one of Keng's friend told us whenever we need to use the toilet, make sure to keep the door closed so the Kitty won't run around and got itself stucked in toilet hole or jump out from the window... Whatever...

And the songs we're gonna play, we need to fit some vocals, just a sentence, repeating over and over again. That's cy's idea, something like "Everybody fuck around" sort of, he'll mainly sing it while i'm backing his vocals with voice dragging, not R&B style. (i know you'll kill me if i do... AhhhHHHhhaaaAAAhh...)

Some agreed to have Yulius playing on his effects to make ambience, supporting the bass's consistent plucks. Cy prefered clean distortion effect, and so am i. Hopefully Yulius can blend in his effects with us in timing sequence and when the climax came, he has to trash the sound out loud.

We jammed an hour, so we went for drinks, talked about more on song's planning. After that, we went back to cy's place, tried to dub the recordings into pc, somehow it's a bad recording. Suddenly fast for a second or two, bit by bit along the track. Then we just listen back to our previous session, everyone likes the 30th October's session, flawless planning but some minor mistakes, still fine. Later, we talked more on the songs.

Cy was asking that the song we played could have been the same, somehow i made different beats from each session. I knew he wanted me to play to blend with the guitar's strumming, i played and i knew he had some other options in mind. Some beats i made really fit the tracks, just as i'm not a math rock drummer, trying hard as i could, only i need more practises. I only concerned both Jordan and Yulius, Jordan managed to blend in, only Yulius needs some hard work to make out good ambience.

There's one last track we're gonna play was the fast one. Yeah, i'm loving it. In that track, cy's gonna play bass, no piano involved.

Next session, will be on Sunday night, see you there!