Saturday, February 24, 2007
Is This Getting Tougher?
Hi guys and gals of Not.Crazaand.
What a practice huh? Somehow, morning practices feel like it's a total work day for me heh, so I'm thoroughly shagged by the end of it.
I have mixed emotions right now, and since I express myself better in writing, I'm gonna talk about a few things here.
Is there a bit of tension in the band?
Firstly, I didn't start this band. God knows it's you guys, all of you, who loved music so much that you wanted to form a band and make music together. And God bless Nick for helping and guiding you along the way, amongst other things. And you've done so well, that Nick thinks you have the potential of becoming a very good band. And I agree.
And now, he has roped me in to 'musically advise' the band. And I dare say (with good feedback of course) that you, nay, 'we' have improved as a band. But as we all know, we still have work to do.
What's this 'we' thing?
Guys, when I get involved, I get involved. I treat myself as a member of this band, because I am contributing to it, just like everybody who is contributing to it is considered a member. And what am I contributing? My experience, how ever little of it I have. And I'm still acquiring it. I may not know everything, but I do know some things. And believe it or not, I share it wholeheartedly with anyone who asks, and is interested in what I have to offer. And I say again, you can ask me anything about technique or about 'how you do that ah' and I will give you all that I've got.
I can go around telling you what to do, although I don't like doing it. Who likes telling people that what they do is not nice, or wrong? But I do it with intent of making us better. And if I've offended anyone in the process, I apologise. I hope you understand.
I also need to stress this, that I am not a fixed musician in the band. As I see it, there is a core group of people who make up the band, and I am not one of them. I'm not here to replace anyone either. This idea is for you to stand on your own. If I do get to play (and I would be lying if I said I don't want to, I'm a musician, don't be stupid), I do it knowing full well that I can, and not because I am a guitar god, but because I tried learning these songs and was successful.
And guess what?
I think today was a tense day, I sensed it and I'm still trying to figure out why. One of the reasons I came up with is that everyone now, I sense, wants to make this work. And with that 'wanting', expectations are raised. And when things go wrong, frustration is higher.
But it only shows that we want to be better. And that's a good thing. All it takes is a bit of homework, a shitload of pirated mp3s and a bit of love.
My next post will be addressed to all individuals of the band, and how 'we' can improve.
And I'd like to hear from everyone of you too. I realised that only Nick and Dawn accepted the Blogger email to be an author. I'll be inviting Na and Clarence in as well. I can re-invite everyone again, but only if you ask me to. I think you just need to check your emails and you'll find it there.
'Let this blog not just be, the words of us three.'
Clifford@7:01 PM | 0 comments |
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