JamminJerryok @FreakyFwoof. you said you wanted to see me use this, so here you go. yes the window for it is still open as I write this, but here is my attempt.
Stephanie Appleby@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof That would be selftought! Lol! Keep it up! I like that! What tone was that?
Andre Louis@JamminJerry Experimentation is the stuff of life. There are a good few demos in the folder if you want to hear some, but save your work first. Control Shift O. Have fun.
@JamminJerry Hey, you got the idea of rests, ya done good. Come on haha
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof very good try
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof but I had no idea what the hell even the tune was! lol
@TomGrant91 @FreakyFwoof you couldn't tell that was the rose? ok, I feel really bad now. I knew it was bad, but I didn't think it was that bad! lol.
@spacepup @JamminJerry @TomGrant91 He's using my NVDA addon. If you pull my timeline you'll see what it's all about.
@TomGrant91 @FreakyFwoof you should hear my attempt at drumming to the song by styx called Show me the way on my finger drum pad that I have. I attempted that recording only a few hours after receiving the drum pad. I didn't know much about it at all like if you dap one of the simbles, but don't release your finger very quickly, it doesn't sound right at all., but I think that sounds a lot better than my attempt at this did. smile. or what about an audio file Andre did that didn't have drums in it, that I thought I would play along with just for the hell of it. I think I still have that here too. I just let the music guide me in what to do on the drum pad. that one came out kind of interesting.
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof Oh, drum pads! Talking of which, I had a yamaha DD-35, I think it was. Might still be kicking around. It was one that had all kinds of drums, squeaky toys, cats, dogs, and the famous yamaha DJ! yo! go! scratch sounds from the PSR-280
@TomGrant91 @FreakyFwoof here is the one that Andre did that I just felt I wanted to try to play along with. this wasn't edited in any way, meaning I wasn't trying to be something good. I just let the music guide me, and I just played live. I was just winging it.
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof That's exactly what I do on my keyboard and/or DD-35 with the radio on. Unedited, just jamming along.
@TomGrant91 @FreakyFwoof I actually have fun doing things like that. I used to do that all the time in highschool in one of the drum rooms we had. I would either play along with songs I had on a cassette, or I wouold just turn on the radio, pick a station, and just play along with songs that were playing on the air. sadly it is getting harder to use my drum kit with the arthritis in my fingers now, but I still do try it from time to time.
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof snap! I would tune to a station, hear a tune like wigfeeld saturday night, find some drums on a keyboard, play along, then find the piano, then jam along with the chords.
@TomGrant91 @JamminJerry I have a series on youtube I haven't done in ages but I should, called 'Groove' where I just take something I've made and drum the hell out of it. A bit of a drum shred if you will. Should send you something to listen to.
@FreakyFwoof @TomGrant91 the only thing I can really do something like with is drums. I was never any good at just randumly jamming on a keyboard to something, but give me a drum set, or a drum pad, or something, and I have all kinds of fun. I also have a very old program someone wrote for windows that allows me to use my computer keyboard as a drum kit, and if you know how to make the files, you can even create your own drum kit for it. I don't know who wrote it, but I like it. it has several drum kits in it already, but I don't ahve sounds I could load into it to make a kit.
@TomGrant91 @JamminJerry Aah, found this one. Track I wrote called 'Exploding Fish.' https://youtu.be/zH0EJynf5VQ
Groove 04 - Exploding Fish
@FreakyFwoof @TomGrant91 see now I can't get that fancy on drums. you are just really good. just wow! I still have fun with what I can do, and in my personal opinion that is all that matters.
@JamminJerry @TomGrant91 Yup, and nobody said it ain't. You do you and have fun doing it. Drums is a passion of mine, been doing that for about 30 years. I'm still not as good as I want to be.
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @TomGrant91 take it from someone who's been a drummer for 36 years period sometimes, it's not about getting fancy. It's about having fun and doing what you love and letting your passion show through.
@darren_duff @FreakyFwoof @TomGrant91 says the person that can drum circles around me! smile. I got to pick on you a bit there you know. both you and andre are just extremely awesome, but hey, I do what I can even with good old arther in my fingers, and I also suspect a bit of carpal tunnal as well.
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @TomGrant91 but that came from years and years of practice. I would almost rather see someone who can't play that good, but has a lot of passion and care for what they do. There are way too many flashy drummers out there who can't just keep a basic groove.
@darren_duff @FreakyFwoof @TomGrant91 I wish I would have had something in the years and years that I couldn't play drums. I did it a lot in highschool. I was even on the school band, and played at football, and basketball games. once I graduated, I didn't get to play anything drum wize until I got a program for windows that let me use the keyboard as a drum set. lol. that was maybe around 2016 I think? the person stopped doing anything with it in 2012, but I didn't hear anything about it until 2016. so for almost 22 years, I didn't have anything, but I kept tapping out things on my desk when I was moved to do so. smile.
@darren_duff @JamminJerry @TomGrant91 Pocket is one of the most important things you can be. In a band, it's not always about how much you do, it's more about what you bring to the table.
Joseph King@FreakyFwoof @darren_duff @JamminJerry @TomGrant91 Darren and Andre speak the truth here. Pocket is far more important than flash. It doesn't matter how flashy you are. IF you can't hold a groove down and let it speak for itself, there's a problem.
@JamminJerry @jdking92 @darren_duff @TomGrant91 All this talk of pocket and stuff made me edit some jams from last night you all might enjoy. Just posted.
@FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry nice tune!
@darren_duff @TomGrant91 @FreakyFwoof I need to find more songs like that that don't have a drum track, and that I haven't really heard before, to see if I could make something like that again.
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof is that the nvda beeps? And how are you doing that?
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof It's not that bad.
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof I can't do it either, notes are right but timing is abysmal. I also apparently need a new instance because I can't post the text here as it's too long, and they reject my audio. Bleh!