The Rehearsal
So I rocked up at about quarter past 6 at Keith's place for the rehearsal, after being late because I forgot to change the strings on my guitar till just before I was supposed to leave.
It was interesting. Fun. Enriching? I'm not sure I could really describe it properly. It's nice to be able to pick up a guitar, and with less than 5 hours practise be confident you could play it back to a live audience.
It's been far too long since I've played my guitar in a band. I play the bass for the school's concert band, but it's not the same as the guitar... which when I hold in my hands, just feels so right.
When you're playing music with other people, it's like this invisible force that binds you together. It's insane that four people doing four different things at once should sound so good, but it blends and intertwines, and all of you, and the sounds you're making, fuse together to make something altogether new. It's exhilarating, liberating and at the same time like a part of you is getting trapped inside this monstrous new sound you're creating.
When you play music, and you know it's the sound and it's right, it's like everything else in life temporarily vanishes. You don't need to breathe. You don't need to see. You just need to feed the beastly sound that you're letting loose. It's as intense as the moment during the first punch of a fight, the first kick of a soccer ball. The tension in a horror movie, where the generic bimbo has face cut off - you reach a point where there's no longer a question of whether it will happen. Instead, all you can do is keep watching, or pushing, or moving, and let it go.
I really miss playing with a band.
It was interesting. Fun. Enriching? I'm not sure I could really describe it properly. It's nice to be able to pick up a guitar, and with less than 5 hours practise be confident you could play it back to a live audience.
It's been far too long since I've played my guitar in a band. I play the bass for the school's concert band, but it's not the same as the guitar... which when I hold in my hands, just feels so right.
When you're playing music with other people, it's like this invisible force that binds you together. It's insane that four people doing four different things at once should sound so good, but it blends and intertwines, and all of you, and the sounds you're making, fuse together to make something altogether new. It's exhilarating, liberating and at the same time like a part of you is getting trapped inside this monstrous new sound you're creating.
When you play music, and you know it's the sound and it's right, it's like everything else in life temporarily vanishes. You don't need to breathe. You don't need to see. You just need to feed the beastly sound that you're letting loose. It's as intense as the moment during the first punch of a fight, the first kick of a soccer ball. The tension in a horror movie, where the generic bimbo has face cut off - you reach a point where there's no longer a question of whether it will happen. Instead, all you can do is keep watching, or pushing, or moving, and let it go.
I really miss playing with a band.