Today is a seemingly normal rehearsal. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm not looking forward to the some of the drums...
Munnie 🧟♂️
Gas is dumb.
I try to only pay 20 or 30 per visit.
Traffic is dumb.
My iPhone 7 is also. The camera phone it getting slower and slower all the time. I also take too many pictures.
I've always wanted to see Shen Yun.
Paying for parking is dumb.
It's still $2 and the machines are new. Sax player told me to press a button for it to work. I already know that. How long did it take him to figure that out? I said thanks.
I'm grateful it's still $2.
Arriving early enough to catch a glimpse of nuns preparing for guitar class is priceless.
I took the picture. It's rare for a car of two nuns to pull up. They like to man-spread... just a like a real guitar player!
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Past Drama Into A Solution That I Suggested
A well placed and articulate rant about inappropriate curb markings (after getting a stupid ticket) probably helped create this yellow curb. I complained, in-person, to the parking police attendant. I called and spoke to a different person on a separate occasion. I left long explanations in the notes sections of the ticket payment process. I ALSO COMPLAINED ON TWITTER. I crafted tweets with images and mentioned the stupidity of their parking fee hoarding. I mentioned the safety concerns.
They probably realized the potential fire hazard.
Previously, some of the curb was red and some of it was two parking spaces. Now it serves the community. The curb serves people utilizing the theater's best loading area.
Like they really needed the profit of those parking spaces. Give students a break. Probably created accidents too. It was red in front of a door that’s used to load in and out of the theater. I’m ranting again… anyway, it’s better now.
It’s two dollars for parking still. I’m grateful they haven’t raised it.
Mine now!
The image above is my official entry into the shadow contest here: @melinda010100/shadow-hunters-contest-smash-round-73f9ce4a344fe
MUSIC!
Finally the part where I'm supposed to talk about music. Rehearsal was rough. I don't have much to share for the music part of this post. Because it was rhythmic struggle the entire night.
I was excited to use this GoPro, but I did't feel inspired to record anything. That's sad and dumb. I also can't handle the media storage space. I had the GoPro with me and attached to the bass.
It was much easier to play my instrument with the GoPro attached. Sad, i need a fucking spy camera to balance out my fucking instrument. Stupid distraction.
Hey look at this retro kick drum hardware:
They don't make'm like that anymore.
I consider my options.
It's healthy to read new charts. Working with one of the drummers that has not practiced might become toxic.
One of the new drummers seems cool. The other is just being allowed to fake something far over most drummer's skill level. It's also the wrong setting for that level of student proficiency. Sucks for others. Decent players will start disappearing. The better drummer should be holding his ground and prevent the faker from ruining everyone's experience.
It’s usually best to have an Advanced big band and a less advanced big band. Just like school sports do it. They have a Varsity team and a Junior Varsity team, right? Learning with others who are learning at a similar pace is still somewhat beneficial, right?
I said something.
I told the bad drummer it’s not possible to fake Samba like he was... (It’s also rude.) ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS OBVIOUS YOU HAVEN'T STUDIED THE METRONOME or counting exercises.
It's easy to get lost in the chart when the tempo is too fast for our skill level. If the experienced players didn't know any better, we would have "train wrecked" several times.
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Exhale. Let's transcend together for a moment.
Repeat the affirmation:
"They's dumb.
They's dumb.
They's dumb.
They's dumb."
More balanced, right?
I "received" new music to work on... i'm tired of FedEx. Printing with their old slow machines it dumb. Why to I pay for that back pain? Not sure, but I'll ask them to print it for me this time.
So far the song list is too long and we will need to drop song. I hope we drop every Samba tune. These kids think they can play a 16th note shuffle funk or swung 8th funk or whatever you wanna call it? FINE i hope they find focus ASAFP!
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Oh look a poem squirted out of my ass!
Fake a gender or not, I don't care.
Fuck all the style tribes.
It's not my place to care.
Fake like your a jazzer or a dairy queen,
Fake your illusions and fake your dreams, but
you'll never fake big band drums if RHYTHM is not your king.
The metronome is key.
Rehearsal lasted until 9:37-ish. All rehearsals are later now because we take a break. A long break. Almost too late to get a snack by the time we get out. I'll try the market down the street.
Look forward to a few more posts about this big band experience. Not all will sound this belligerent. Thanks for your patience. Check out the previous post here: @steemseph/bass-in-this-place-first or @steemseph/bass-in-this-place-first
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