RobertB
Well-known member
I always enjoying hearing an EBMM in action, in any context, way, shape or form. So it occurred to me that some of you might be the same way. With that in mind, here's a link to a few mp3's on my myspace profile. You don't have to be registered there to check these out.
A little background. It's been over a decade since I played in bands, and until this little jam session with a buddy of mine's drummer-son recently (recorded in these mp3's), it had been several years since I'd even played music with another human being, because I've been pretty mobile with my job the past few years.
Anyway, these little recordings are largely improv, in the sense that I've been playing with the basic ideas for a few new grooves recently, but they weren't (and still aren't) really developed beyond being basic ideas. But I thought, well, we'll just go into it totally cold, I'll let him hear the basic ideas for these grooves & we'll just see what happens.
So in these recordings - and this is what I actually like most about them - what you hear is literally the drummer's first time hearing them. As such, I was pretty impressed with this ability to find the intended feel behind each of them, and to anticipate where things were going. It was ALOT of fun. Beyond those basic ideas I had, neither of us had any idea what we were going to do. That was my first experience approaching a session that way in 20 years of playing music, and it felt GREAT, even though yes, it's full of f-ups. =)
There was absolutely no focus on recording quality either, as you'll hear right away. My redhead was mic'd (his drums too, obviously), and the board output was into his Mac laptop via an M-box, recorded with the "light" version of pro-tools that comes with the M-box. The last one, "Joy" is particularly trebly, for some reason.
So anyway, these are all about feel, but hopefully you'll know right away, even in a crappy recording like this, that it was done on an EBMM. =)
Later,
Robert
www.myspace.com/rlbates1391
A little background. It's been over a decade since I played in bands, and until this little jam session with a buddy of mine's drummer-son recently (recorded in these mp3's), it had been several years since I'd even played music with another human being, because I've been pretty mobile with my job the past few years.
Anyway, these little recordings are largely improv, in the sense that I've been playing with the basic ideas for a few new grooves recently, but they weren't (and still aren't) really developed beyond being basic ideas. But I thought, well, we'll just go into it totally cold, I'll let him hear the basic ideas for these grooves & we'll just see what happens.
So in these recordings - and this is what I actually like most about them - what you hear is literally the drummer's first time hearing them. As such, I was pretty impressed with this ability to find the intended feel behind each of them, and to anticipate where things were going. It was ALOT of fun. Beyond those basic ideas I had, neither of us had any idea what we were going to do. That was my first experience approaching a session that way in 20 years of playing music, and it felt GREAT, even though yes, it's full of f-ups. =)
There was absolutely no focus on recording quality either, as you'll hear right away. My redhead was mic'd (his drums too, obviously), and the board output was into his Mac laptop via an M-box, recorded with the "light" version of pro-tools that comes with the M-box. The last one, "Joy" is particularly trebly, for some reason.
So anyway, these are all about feel, but hopefully you'll know right away, even in a crappy recording like this, that it was done on an EBMM. =)
Later,
Robert
www.myspace.com/rlbates1391
