12/25/2005
9:58 pm
And you do it like this!
RE:
its christmas today. which means school's starting. i dun celebrate christmas u see. so merry christmas too all my christians frens.
had nothing much planned today. except i got a wedding to play. luckily its somewhere nearby. hahakz.i was suppose to arrive by 10. for cound checking and all. i woke up at 10. khakhakha. abg boy already calling sia. i said i was about to to out already. the truth is i haven even brush my teeth. den suddenly poof!..there goes mr. flash. within 1/2 hr..i bathed..took out bag from the storeroom. check my stuff. pack my bags...took out my shoes..get handkerchief..socks..combed my hair...and all. recording timing sia.
den rushed to yew tee. reached there by 11. luckily i was late sia. there was no electricity. dunno lar..some guy holding the key was gone and call2 he nv pick up phone. they been trying to solve the problem since 10am. 15 mins after i came...den one of the ppl there found an empty socket in the carpark below. so within dat 15 mins...i got everithing i was playing ready lar. tuned up my dholak and tabla. placed the timbales beside me.
changed into the t-shirt. placed everithing..at where they are supposed to be. den after dat..did a quick sound testing and all. and started quickly. abg boy leaving half way so they didnt ordered the drumset today. instead. we used drummachines instead. it was cool sia. 1 spd 11...1spd 20..2 drum machines..and me...plus congas and bongo. not forgetting shakers and tambourine. hahakz..abg boy brought his djembe also hehehe..
borrowed salleh's mp3 for recording. coundn't managed a goot recording lar. i dunno...it could be beoz i was recording it from where im sitting..where the music is loud. or because the mic cannot handle loud sounds. it was cracking like hell when i play it back. abg babal said we can record by jacking it into the mixer. so just recording wad we playing..no outside noise. but cant lar..salleh's mp3 got internal mic. and no input. ciz..wasted. i have to find some other way to record.
today was one of my best performance sia. realli on form...hahakz..moving from dholak..den go to conga..den play djembe..den play spd..den back to dholak again. i even handled goro ki na kalo gi's conga solo. fewwit!..*applause!* hehehe..but it was realli fun sia. den come caravan's piya tu..this song abg boy ask me to play djembe while abg babal play conga. and he play timbales. achap control the drum machine...since we're playing latin-style. whoosh...cool sia...each of us took a solo...improvisation ar.
the actual song lasted 4+ mins..we played it until 10 mins+ sia. hahakz..wif all the solos and all...wasted lar the recording not clear..cant hear a thing coz..its constantly craking..even this song got ppl come up to dance.. happening sia. okei lar..basically..one of the best wedding performance i ever had since i started bout 5-6 years back.
den ofcourse..we had to stop by 6. all tired and worn out. hahakz. pack my stuff..collect my pay...and headed home all smiling. sometime next week got practice. and january got 2 outing. hopefully..we will play like we did today. if not..just half of it also im happi. orite...dats it for today...almost 11 already..and bored...still no signs...see how lar..if not den game-on till morning perhaps..
________________Your's truly, Nashady__________________