Steve, thanks for joining HOD! Awesome to have you here and I hope you enjoy the board! Its great that us lesser beings can mix with such drumming greats here on this board!
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Steve, thanks for joining HOD! Awesome to have you here and I hope you enjoy the board! Its great that us lesser beings can mix with such drumming greats here on this board!
Hass! I know this question is better asked on your forum, but I think we can benefit.
You said you were at a jingle. What are those like today? Can you give us a clue. I'm sure most members have never had the experience.
Hey Cats!!
I'm sitting at a Starbucks here at DFW airport in Dallas waiting to catch my flight back to NYC. I thought this would be a great opportunity to answer a few questions. I should be learning music for a rehearsal today. Fortunately, my reading skills are OK so I can read my way through rehearsal. :-)
Drumaddix, of course I know Tanya Michelle. She's a beautiful vocalist coming out of the Chaka school. She's also a very animated performer and a sweet person. I do play the Sunday night jam at the Bitter End every now and again if my schedule permits. Although recently, I have been far to busy.
SDK, that cycle on for 26-2 is correct in the B section. Good work!
Gotta a match, to answer your question about the vibes vids on my site, I really love playing phrases in 5,7 and 9, using even and odd rates. A rate is what I call a group of notes. An even rate is a bar of 16th notes. An odd rate is a bar of triplets, quintuplets and so on. 5,7,9 is a great starting point, from there you can get into more complex groupings and apply those groupings to different rates. In other parts of the world playing rhythm this way is very common. I like to apply this to my solos in jazz, and other creative styles. Obviously I don't have the chance to use it very often at the moment. Even in John Scofield's band, the concept is OLD SKOOL pocket. Which I also love. As far as the video. It's not a home video although I can see how you would think that. It was taped by a Greek TV network, and then purchased by some other cable channels. Cliff Almond told me he saw it on TV late one evening. To be honest I have no idea what they're using it for.
NYC Jingle Sessions. These vary. Let me take you through a very common experience.
Jingles are all about getting the best feeling track, in the least amount of time.
I walk into the studio, greet the folks who hired me, and immediately head into the drum room. There's a kit set up, usually a beginner line like Pearl Export with pinstripes(YUCK!), or maybe an older maple kit like Premier, Tama, or Gretsch. I make a few adjustments IF I have time. They explain the track to me, maybe give me a chart if it's involved, but it usually is quite simple. We'll sound check to the track, then many times they'll say "OK we got it THANKS!" I'm like, HUH?? "Yeah we got it, you nailed it on the sound check and it went to tape. I'm thinking to myself, I didn't nail it!! That's a typical session for a commercial or T.V track here in NYC. If it's a more challenging track we might do 3 takes. I've never gone in for a jingle and stayed for more than 40mins unless there are multiple spots involved or problems with recording.
This Pepsi jingle had a full orchestra, we did 4 different spots, and the pro-tools system was down, so that took a while. But in my case, a session like that is rare. It's normally an "in and out" situation. I've never used my own drums for a jingle.
So Cats!! That's it for now. I have to run. I'll try to check in whenever I can to see what's up in here.
Keep Swingin'!!!
HASSY:-)
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 12, 2005 10:59 AM: Message edited by: STEVE HASS ]</font>
Thanks Steve for sharing your experience with us.
I played a Gig with Tanya yesterday in Paris.No need to tell you that she brought the house down man!
She's now living in Paris and having a great time.I feel blessed being able to play with such a great performer.I feel it makes me play better but at the same time when i'm backing her,i don't feel like i'm plaing drums anymore.I'm just doing music you know!?
Anyway,let us know when you come to PAris and we'll have a drink together and i can show you around if you like.
Once again,it's great to have you on the board dude! [img]wink.gif[/img]
Thanks for the reply Steve. It's great to get an insight to your daily work. Always learning more! Doing jingles sounds rougher than I thought. I don't mean to discredit your work, but it seems like a shame that you don't get a chance to put your heart and soul into that work. The way you described it, ther's little "emotional input" from the drummer, huh? Certainly not everyone's cup of tea...Anyway, good to see that you balance this out by playing in groups/other live acts! [img]cool.gif[/img]
Suspiria, I have done a few little jingles in my time. I think that when you are professional musician and you can be paid several hundred dollars for an hours work, it can be beneficial. I also believe that it's more difficult to be creative under such restriction.
It seperates the men from the boys. If you can go in and give them a great feeling track under those conditions I know there are other players in here that have done that kind of work.
Steve, are you teaching in LA while you're out there? My wife and I are going to Santa Monica for a few days. I saw that you have a room at The Drum Connection.
I also ran into John Benitez, and he said besides JSco, that you two are doing a latin recording with some latin jazz veterans like Edsel Gomez and Luisito Quintero. I can't wait to hear it!
Again, thanks for the play by play on the jingle! I hope it airs soon.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tanya Maria? [img]eek.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by drumaddix:
Thanks Steve for sharing your experience with us.
I played a Gig with Tanya yesterday in Paris.No need to tell you that she brought the house down man!
She's now living in Paris and having a great time.I feel blessed being able to play with such a great performer.I feel it makes me play better but at the same time when i'm backing her,i don't feel like i'm plaing drums anymore.I'm just doing music you know!?
Anyway,let us know when you come to PAris and we'll have a drink together and i can show you around if you like.
Once again,it's great to have you on the board dude! [img]wink.gif[/img]
Hey Henry,
Tania is supposed hire some french musicians, do I know you ?
I know that she can hires Jean-Philippe Fanfan, Thierry Arpino, Luiz Augusto and maybe Fabien Haimovici too so...
Her bass player is still the great Marc Bertaux ?
Congratulations for the gig anyway.
All right.
Again another example of people not reading the posts. If you're going to post, READ!
They were talking about Tanya Michelle, I don't know who that is, but I read all the posts.
Oops, sorry Henry.
Thanks for your great advice Flarobstix...