Jam !!

Had a great jam session on Sunday.

It was great to get together with the guys again and mangle our favourites hehe. No, actually we were quite tight but I managed to forget a few chords and progressions to some songs on our regular set list. Also, we jammed for two hours and by the last ten minutes, we could barely stand. It actually hurt physically to play guitar by then. It's been too long since we last jammed.

Still it was a lot of fun. The highlight was our attempt at covering "Sweet Child O'Mine". It was a bit rough and the solo bits need some work but on the whole, pretty good considering we just learnt that song that afternoon. Our version of Skid Row's "In a Darkened Room" was okay too. Sheldon (our vocalist) decided to turn off the lights in the jamming room to create an ambience (the song was called In a Darkened Room, geddit..) So there we were, playing this rather heavy rock ballad, in a room lit only by the glow of our Compaq laptop's LCD screen, which we used to record the whole session (the resulting mp3 file was 70mbs !!). It was awesome. I felt like we were making a video.

I noticed in the comments that some of you were kinda interested in the band. Okay I'll tell you about us. There's five of us. I play rhythm (2nd) guitar. We're what you might call a hobby band. We just jam for fun and to improve our playing. So, sorry no gigs (yet..). We play all kinds of stuff. A lot of nineties-era rock music, but occasionally we (try to) play things like reggae & ska.

Right now, we're not really good just yet. I certainly wouldn't mind playing public, but we have a lot of practising to do if we want to achieve that standard. Actually, having said that, I have seen bands who play live and are actually worse than us....

I'm hoping to introduce more current stuff to our playlist. Stuff from Audioslave, Silverchair and other bands that are newish. I feel that it would make us better musicians if we had more variety. In fact, for our next jam session I want to pitch New Order's "Regret" to the band. And also we need to work on our electric, pianoless version of "November Rain". That would make a fun song to play.

It's nice to be in a band.