[musictlk] joined a band.

pajohns1 at vt.edu pajohns1 at vt.edu
Sat Oct 10 15:04:01 UTC 2009


Robert,

        Good to hear.  Your band appearing at any of the local jam sessions? 
I seem to recall one of the coffee shops in downtown Radford had/has Friday 
night sessions.  Then of course there are the Floyd venues if yor band is 
bluegrass.

Keep us posted,

Patrick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert j" <robertjmoore at embarqmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 11:17 PM
Subject: [musictlk] joined a band.


> Hi gang.
> I have not seen much traffic hear as of late.
> I was getting together with 2 blind friends of mine and working on some
> music.
> none of us really had much equipment accept the drumber but he just had 
> his
> drumbs. also Me and the guitar player had little and no band experiance.
> I mean the guitar player just has done some solo work now and then for
> places like nursing homes and such.
> I told them I stil would like to regroup with them some time down the line
> and maybe I can play some gigs with both bands.
> I have never been in a band before and I am 48 years oldbut never gave up 
> on
> the dream.
> Well I am not working with my 2 blind friends any more at this time 
> because
> I found some guys closer to me that are putting together a band and the
> drumber in the new band  told me not to wory about transportation, he 
> picks
> me up for practice every time and it seems to work out fine for him and he
> does not mind.
> Well I have been to 2 practices so far and it is going well. I have a long
> way to go with learning the material but the guitar player also has
> experiance with playing bass an has some recording equipment so he 
> recorded
> himself playing guitar and singing all of the songs and then he recorded 
> the
> bass track over that and set the bass louder than the rest of the music so
> assentually I can hear him playing guitar and singing but I primarily hear
> the bass so it is reall easy to pick out the notes and learn the bass 
> parts.
> that really works out great for me since I play totally by ear and do have 
> a
> fairly good ear for music but not fantastic so I like having it sepparated
> out for me.
> We have about 40 songs that we are working on and I have not counted but I
> think I am fairlly comfortable with about a dozen songs or so and am 
> working
> on all the rest.
> I feel like that I am gaining just a little bit of ground each and every
> time I practice.
> thank you to all of you that have given me some encouragement and a few
> little pointers over the past year or so.
> If and when we get some stuff recorded and if I am aloud to post an
> attachment or a link or some such thing I would like to share with the
> group, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
> thanks again.
> robert
>
>
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