I remember that when I was at a Dead show I felt like I was part of the music as If I was interacting directly on some other plane and pulling the music out of them because I needed it. When I play along with them at home it seems like I can't screw up. It feels like there are always holes in the music that I can fill as I enter that zone. I can tell by watching this that you get into it too. That is way cool. Mickey Hart will flat out tell you. This is trance music. As I listen to Playing in the Band, which is in that rolling 10/4 time, it draws me right in and we all need it to relax. Eyes of the World comes in and... Have you read Mickey Hart's book, "Drumming at the Edge of Magic?" Drumming at the edge of magic is what the best drummers do. And besides, that book blew my mind. I had no idea before I read it where all the music and the rhythms I love came from.🐦
I have read it! And you're right, once the music starts, it almost seems like everything else fades away and I can almost feel like I'm up on that stage with them. When I first started practicing, I shyed away from the dead because I thought a 3rd drummer would make it super muddy, but I was wrong. I stopped trying to do drum covers and playing what that original drummer played, and just adding my own. I don't think it sounds muddy, and the trip I take while playing with them is therapeutic. I'll be playing more and more from them. It's like firing up a time machine and hopping on the bus all over again!
@@scottb382 Yeah, I have often thought time travel was possible because when playing music in a good live jam it seems like time seems to lean into the future where you can predict what is about to happen. Although lately, I see that good jam feeling of being in this moment. This moment is what is truly real. The past slips away mostly forgotten and the future is less than fully known. Good music slows down the mind so you can experience the moment and reality. I consider myself really lucky. My wife loves to jam too. Each of us is different and has a different view of the music. She was classically trained and can read music. I can read it a little. I took drums in middle school. But, I learned guitar mostly by doing what you are doing and playing along with the Grateful Dead. When my wife and I play and when I really get into it and I am warmed up and practiced I can't do anything wrong. You can never judge the jam either. It is just what came out. Phil Lesh was a great proponent of there are no mistakes. It's all music. There have been times when my wife and I play that the music almost seemed like some contentious argument or that it was falling apart while we played it but when we listened to the recording it was excellent. If not for the Grateful Dead I could not have learned that so easily. They all taught me well.🐦 I have been listening to you play with the Dead as I write. You fit in perfectly.🐦 If you are interested, here are a couple of good jams between my wife and I. Let me know what you think. Alas, the drummer is an Alesis SR-18 except for the tabla I added on Eyes of the World played by me on the Roland Handsonic HPD-15. The live musical interplay is between her piano and my guitar. She wrote When Winter Leaves My Heart.🐦 Bluebird Bridge Eyes of the World - th-cam.com/video/OjSFy4q1sn8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Q_jxz_UUHYCBz71X When Winter Leaves My Heart - th-cam.com/video/iTUZUjMWDGg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pwSkwkx6cqBlbbAB
I remember that when I was at a Dead show I felt like I was part of the music as If I was interacting directly on some other plane and pulling the music out of them because I needed it.
When I play along with them at home it seems like I can't screw up. It feels like there are always holes in the music that I can fill as I enter that zone. I can tell by watching this that you get into it too. That is way cool. Mickey Hart will flat out tell you. This is trance music. As I listen to Playing in the Band, which is in that rolling 10/4 time, it draws me right in and we all need it to relax. Eyes of the World comes in and...
Have you read Mickey Hart's book, "Drumming at the Edge of Magic?" Drumming at the edge of magic is what the best drummers do. And besides, that book blew my mind. I had no idea before I read it where all the music and the rhythms I love came from.🐦
I have read it! And you're right, once the music starts, it almost seems like everything else fades away and I can almost feel like I'm up on that stage with them. When I first started practicing, I shyed away from the dead because I thought a 3rd drummer would make it super muddy, but I was wrong. I stopped trying to do drum covers and playing what that original drummer played, and just adding my own. I don't think it sounds muddy, and the trip I take while playing with them is therapeutic. I'll be playing more and more from them. It's like firing up a time machine and hopping on the bus all over again!
@@scottb382 Yeah, I have often thought time travel was possible because when playing music in a good live jam it seems like time seems to lean into the future where you can predict what is about to happen. Although lately, I see that good jam feeling of being in this moment. This moment is what is truly real. The past slips away mostly forgotten and the future is less than fully known. Good music slows down the mind so you can experience the moment and reality.
I consider myself really lucky. My wife loves to jam too. Each of us is different and has a different view of the music. She was classically trained and can read music. I can read it a little. I took drums in middle school. But, I learned guitar mostly by doing what you are doing and playing along with the Grateful Dead. When my wife and I play and when I really get into it and I am warmed up and practiced I can't do anything wrong. You can never judge the jam either. It is just what came out. Phil Lesh was a great proponent of there are no mistakes. It's all music. There have been times when my wife and I play that the music almost seemed like some contentious argument or that it was falling apart while we played it but when we listened to the recording it was excellent.
If not for the Grateful Dead I could not have learned that so easily. They all taught me well.🐦
I have been listening to you play with the Dead as I write. You fit in perfectly.🐦
If you are interested, here are a couple of good jams between my wife and I. Let me know what you think. Alas, the drummer is an Alesis SR-18 except for the tabla I added on Eyes of the World played by me on the Roland Handsonic HPD-15. The live musical interplay is between her piano and my guitar. She wrote When Winter Leaves My Heart.🐦
Bluebird Bridge
Eyes of the World - th-cam.com/video/OjSFy4q1sn8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Q_jxz_UUHYCBz71X
When Winter Leaves My Heart - th-cam.com/video/iTUZUjMWDGg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pwSkwkx6cqBlbbAB
I'll check em out!