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It feels good to get calls to do session work. It feels great to be told, sure, go ahead and do the arrangement.
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Started getting back my double bass chops last week. I've got an upcoming project that will need them. I didn't want to just dive back in without even a minimum level of ability. I didn't need to worry that my left foot had forgotten what to do, just that it had lost the coordination for it.
I'm starting to get it back. I don't know if I'll ever get my raw speed back - when I was a lot younger I could play 16ths at what felt like 180bpm - but that's cool. I think I can pull off more interesting stuff now anyway.
"Feet - go." Rumbling starts, painfully slow. "Hands, do stuff." My hands start improvising jazz patterns, drum & bass stuff. Aaah, nice. This is the stuff I was never able to pull off before, at any speed.
I said to my friend, at this point, I've got the first three tunes down but I worry, sort of philosophically, that I don't think about the drums the way I used to. He replied, that's cool man. Fresh perspective is good.
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Started getting back my double bass chops last week. I've got an upcoming project that will need them. I didn't want to just dive back in without even a minimum level of ability. I didn't need to worry that my left foot had forgotten what to do, just that it had lost the coordination for it.
I'm starting to get it back. I don't know if I'll ever get my raw speed back - when I was a lot younger I could play 16ths at what felt like 180bpm - but that's cool. I think I can pull off more interesting stuff now anyway.
"Feet - go." Rumbling starts, painfully slow. "Hands, do stuff." My hands start improvising jazz patterns, drum & bass stuff. Aaah, nice. This is the stuff I was never able to pull off before, at any speed.
I said to my friend, at this point, I've got the first three tunes down but I worry, sort of philosophically, that I don't think about the drums the way I used to. He replied, that's cool man. Fresh perspective is good.
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