[Camibra]

Got another jam at 2pm today at a recording studio across the city! Going to develop the structure of 3 new songs and of course record them.

[GardenSirens]

can't wait to hear them!

[Camibra]

They are just live jams at the moment. Once they are set up with structure and all that then we will record the bass and guitar to a metronome then add the drums abd vocals. The proper way to get studio recordings done!

[GardenSirens]

i prefer jam sessions to formed songs. It's more raw and pure.

[Camibra]

They don't sound as good though.

[GardenSirens]

so....music is 90% of the time this unrefined, raw mess of sound. Through those clattering of notes, pure songs come. Without the noise, those beautiful songs don't exist.

[Camibra]

I guess so.

[GardenSirens]

i'm a purist, lol.

[Camibra]

Yesterday I had a jam at home with my brother before I take my drum kit back to work. He is finally 'getting' the fact that if you know a song in your mind and you know the sounds each cymbal/skin makes then you can play the song! He would always need to hear the song he is playing on a speaker to play along to it which pissed me off so much as it is stupid doing that! Especially when I know he is WAY above that entry level for drumming.

[GardenSirens]

That annoys me. Use your memory or not.

[Camibra]

I am trying to force him to get it into his damn head that it is better without it - then at some points he was getting it as we were in sync and predicted each other - like you do in a jam! Then when I said I start with the bass doing this (then I do a simple doodle of the intro) then I say you on the last 2 repeated bits start the kick drum then he said 'then we both kick in' I said yeah! Then I pointed out this is EXACTLY how in a jam you start structuring original songs!!! By ear, and feeling then playing with structure - but do it in your mind and with intuition, not listening to a song or watching the songsterr app on your phone...

You should like this song Matt. It is one of the best melodic ballads from Load/reload era of Metallica. Highly underrated those albums! They are now 20 years old so can be considered "classic" now!

[GardenSirens]

yeah i feel so old with all that is being classic now, lol.

[Camibra]

I bought that CD new a week before release! This was pre-internet so no way to show anyone apart from in a car (which I did not have) or at other people's houses who liked Metallica (which I knew no one at the time as I had just moved to the city from a small country town) but I frequented an arcade in the CBD! I took the CD there, the guy behind the counter liked the band and was stoked I had the CD a week early so played my CD on the intercom for the entire arcade to enjoy! Best I could do at the time! These days all someone would do is rip it and upload onto the internet as a torrent or some other illegal means. No fun and not fair! It was so god to see the look on people's faces hearing the new songs right there...

[GardenSirens]

internet was here in the late 80s

[Camibra]

Technically it was, but not as abundant as the last 15 years or so though. Especially out in the sticks of a crappy country town of less than 2000 people which only had A.M radio stations to tune into and no cable tv/satellite tv but just 2 free to air tv channels!