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1. Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 04:04:10 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

   i wanna play in a jazz/funk band that doesn't take itself too seriously and i wanna practice with them at least once a week. how do i make that happen?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 04:04:09 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @thor Rehearsing on a scheduled basis sounds pretty serious. =)
   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 04:08:18 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke does it? i mean, geeze, why does it have to be? also ssshhh you are jinxing it

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 04:08:18 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke people come to build night at the maker space every Thursday because they like it

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 04:10:40 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @thor Maybe I got hung up on "practice". If the group will "hang and jam" on a weekly basis it sounds less constrained, less target-oriented.
   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 04:15:37 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke well, the whole genre i'm talking about is fairly improvisational, so the distinction gets blurry at times

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   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:02 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist my religion teacher in school was Pentecostal. he had a sort of mantra. TTT. Things Take Time. or "T cubed"

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   • ampbenzscientist@qoto.org's status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:08 UTC AmpBenzScientist

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     @thor The beat of the drum isn't evil. Rock music just emerged from a denomination that was already not well received. The majority of denominations outside of Pentecostals would have never heard anything like it. That heavy 2 and 4 were used in the church prior to being used in rock. The old Stratocaster I played had a maple fretboard and it had gouges up and down the fretboard from around 35 years of play in the church.

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:09 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist maybe God wanted rock and roll to happen, not the devil :D

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:09 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist "and the Lord says unto thee, loosen up a little, will you?"

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:10 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist a lot of American pop and rock music came out of churches, which is ironic, given its often sinful image

   • ampbenzscientist@qoto.org's status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:11 UTC AmpBenzScientist

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     @thor I played in a Pentecostal Church so it was around 1 to 3 hours per service but it could be 5 hours of playing with ease. I learned a lot about how to change up and add embellishments from The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers. Many of the songs played were around the same pace and complexity of Rockabilly. Pentatonic scales and Nashville Notation ruled.

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:12 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist here's some stuff that i composed (no sampling, mostly MIDI, some real guitar, minimal sequencing, just some quantisation) that sounds kinda like it

     https://soundcloud.com/the-thj/funk-ankh-amun

     https://soundcloud.com/the-thj/fritz-takes-a-walk

     but i think things could get far more interesting if we were a band. more brains = more unexpected things can happen

   • ampbenzscientist@qoto.org's status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:13 UTC AmpBenzScientist

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     @thor I assumed you were referring to the drama that always seems to pop up in a band. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. There's not much room for error or even trouble with an instrument. My guitars had knife edge bridge designs so when a string broke it wasn't in tune.

     My point would be that even if it isn't a serious arrangement, it can be problematic to find good musicians who aren't dicks and play that same subset of music. Not to mention what type of Jazz it is. Jazz can be very simple or extremely technical and pushing Music Theory in new directions.

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:13 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist probably leaning more toward jazzfunk than freeform jazz, but i've never been very strict about genre. do you know Mezzoforte?

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:14 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist i specifically said "not take itself too seriously" because i just want to play instruments with a gang. i can play jam sessions if i want to, i've done that a couple of times and was asked to come back, but there's usually an audience present so you're not really allowed to mess up too badly.

   • ampbenzscientist@qoto.org's status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:15 UTC AmpBenzScientist

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     @thor I played guitar and bass guitar for a large church for 7 years. If you really want to join a good band, you're going to have to prove yourself. They want to know if you have the ability but also if you can perform under pressure. For me I had to be questioned by other musicians first and then I was allowed to play under supervision to a crowd of around 200 with the former guitarist judging my every move. He also taught me how to use that amplifier because it has no volume knob. That amp was a legendary Metal amp from the 80s with two separate gain mechanisms. I couldn't get to full power with hearing protection.

     My point is that you might face some hazing to join.

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:15 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist i never said it had to be good actually, you're presuming

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:16 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • AmpBenzScientist

     @AmpBenzScientist you're thinking too nerdy, i'm asking people with social skills here

   • ampbenzscientist@qoto.org's status on Friday, 10-Jun-2022 05:48:17 UTC AmpBenzScientist

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     @thor Have a server and use MIDI in a data stream to practice. As long as people are patient, it will work just fine.