Jamming!

Ah, long time no see, people. I have been doing a bunch of stuff recently:

• Freelance work
• Various job applications
• Watching tons of anime (spring season has arrived!)
  
• Going to Timesquare Arcade
• Playing Rogue Galaxy on PS2
  
• Playing DotA
  
• Playing DotA
• Playing DotA
• Playing DotA
• ............Playing DotA.

All in all, freedom is good ;) But I need money though...

Last Wednesday, Adrian, Jason and I decided to go for jamming (it's been a while!). Yup, two self-taught guitarists and one self-taught drummer (thanks to Drummania!) going at it, surely you're curious on how we performed, right?

Well, fortunately (or in most cases, unfortunately) for you people, I brought my camera to the studio! To record our superb stellar performance!

The first song that we tried was relatively easy. It's L's theme song from the Death Note anime. I'd say we did quite okie. Unluckily, when I tried to record the second time we went at it, the memory card was out of space. We did very well the second time around! Oh well, you people have to settle for the first attempt:



There were some confusions as to how many times we play this verse and how times we play that verse. The second time around, it was pretty smooth. Too bad it wasn't recorded :(

Also, after the stop in the middle, I resumed a little too early. And too bad Adrian's bass couldn't be heard too well, but hey, we did quite okie back there. Jason's guitar playing is, as usual, excellent (as in "Excellent, dude!", said in the tone of a surfer dude).

Well the second song is tough, so tough that we can only play the song halfway. Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, a song I like as of late.

Now, how do I say this? Well let's watch it first.



Eh... well... Jason's words describe it nicely: "organized mess". Actually, Jason is just being nice; it's actually "freaking messy"!

I didn't do the drumroll properly and hit the symbal rather late at times. I even screwed up the beat after the first chorus.

Can't really hear Adrian's singing either (he's a good singer, really!). Quite funny how he tried to find the lyrics through the sheets towards the end. After that, he even bantai the lyrics (with some, eh, explicit words heh).

Jason did very well with little flaws, at least from my point of view. If you noticed, near the start of the song, he slipped on a note and glanced at me. Haha.

Oh well, at least we had fun. Wanna get better in my drumming the next time around. Daim just told me of a great place to rent a drum set, for just 8 ringgit per hour! Yosh, it's time to train my beat!

Whatever it is, I think we did pretty well for three self-taught buggers!