LOL, Steve...
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in all honesty, I'm long past the days when I would feel comfortable recording a drum track. I think I wrote about this sometime back:
First, it's not my age. I know many, MANY, drummers my age and older, some much older, that can groove with anyone. BUT... I just don't practice much anymore, and it shows. So when I saw those skills digressing I made a change... I don't try to be fancy anymore - -
I try to be solid AND... innovative with lots of nuance. I think I'm pretty good at it... but the hard and impressive licks, (except for perhaps a few), are in my past... and your style of music, (which I love and wish I could still play), would most likely be beyond me... or at least I wouldn't do it justice.
Now this isn't a 'pity plea'.
In truth... staying within my 'new' limits but creating something 'new' within those limits I've discovered to actually be a whole new world, and a great one.
For a "Jam" session? Wow... I wish we could do that. I'd have a blast. Who knows? Maybe one day. - JamesJM
First, it's not my age. I know many, MANY, drummers my age and older, some much older, that can groove with anyone. BUT... I just don't practice much anymore, and it shows. So when I saw those skills digressing I made a change... I don't try to be fancy anymore - -
I try to be solid AND... innovative with lots of nuance. I think I'm pretty good at it... but the hard and impressive licks, (except for perhaps a few), are in my past... and your style of music, (which I love and wish I could still play), would most likely be beyond me... or at least I wouldn't do it justice.
Now this isn't a 'pity plea'.
In truth... staying within my 'new' limits but creating something 'new' within those limits I've discovered to actually be a whole new world, and a great one.For a "Jam" session? Wow... I wish we could do that. I'd have a blast. Who knows? Maybe one day. - JamesJM
