Riadsala’s Blog

Well, we had a jam last night.

The good: Doug. Doug was good. All doubts about Doug have gone away. Obviously he just needed told to go practise a few times.

The better: Adam, the drummer we were jamming out. Best drummer I’ve played in for years. Was a lot of fun.

The bad: we’re not good enough for Adam, so we’ll have to continue our search for a drummer. Matt and I are both very out of practise playing with a drummer and are too used to playing off each other.

Oh well. Never know, maybe the guy will see some potential and jam with us a few times. But its unlikely, esp as he has a guitarist friend along too, and we have no use for a third guitarist.

We will keep on looking.

Now…. time to work on the thesis….

A good little Cantor jam at Banana Row last night. Well, Matt and I have our usual fun and Doug was Doug. I find it hard to work out what’s going in his head. He seems to alternate between coming up with something magical on gutair, and just being a bit useless. A very different guitarist from Matt, and I think the band will benefit from having both of them We also had our new singer (hopefully) along, and that went pretty well. Hoping she thought the same, and then we have an offical 4th member. Then we just need a drummer to finish things off. In the meantime, we always have my DS with the Korg DS10 Oh, and we’re coving some King Crimson tunes, so I’m a happy bunny.

On the downside, I really need to start practising properly. Lots. So, am going to aim for an hour a day and see how i get on with that. I have a LOT to do.

Keep working on warr basics, and get faster at playing repeating notes. This’ll tighten up ToaPP.

Get properly really good at playing the little chord progression I came up with for my warr. As it would make a nice little tune. Unfortunatly I wrote some akward changes into it and have to get more accurate with my pinky! And avoid unintentional string bends when I do a large position shift.

Get back into the swing of things with my fretless bass playing (bass playing full stop really). Since I’ve not played with Ali K for months, my bass playing is pretty rusty. Far too many fluffled notes.

Learn how to use a plectrum

Make funk fingers and learn Sleepless as Matt really wants to play it.

Oh, and I have a PhD thesis to write…..

Hohum.

So, what’s been happening? Hmm. PhD has been progressing: 91 pages done. Going to start re-writing my stochastic search paper so I can resubmit it, it’ll hopefully get sent to more favourable reviewers. And I’ll maybe put some sentences in bold.

Music: Cantor is going in an odd direction. Fun though. Despite still not having a drummer or singer. We have one of each to try out though, so fingers crossed

Hoping Ali finishes his phd soon and decides he’d like to play some more duo stuff as I miss playing around on the fretless with him.

Had an ok birthday. Am 27 now. That’s only just still mid-twenties. Am getting old.