My number one priority at any gig is to provide a solid foundation for the band. Period. The style of music will not change this for me. I always want to lay down a groove from which the other musicians can jump on (or off) with their ideas. Yes...
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So, you’re on the bandstand and the guitar player starts every tune without any sort of a count off and you’re doing the gig for the very first time. Yikes!!! This happens more frequently than you might imagine. What to do? Listen and...
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One skill that I like to work on is creating musical transitions from one section of a song to the next. This may a song with vocals or an instrumental tune. There are times when a very simple drum fill seems like the right thing and then other...
Read moreGroove and Playing in Time
At a rehearsal today, we recorded a song that’s going to be tracked and recorded in a nice studio next week. This was just a reference recording – some people refer to it as “pre-production.” Before the song started, we...
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