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How My Band Celebrated Singapore National Day

12.30pm was the appointed time to pick up Jason and his girlfriend Selrol. Just a few yards before we reached Jason’s house (1 min drive from our condo), we saw Selrol on her cellphone (apparently she was trying to locate the house). What a great start. Everyone was on time. I know that Jason loves Hawker food so how else better was to begin the celebration with Singapore local delights?
On the way to the Hawker center nearby, I bumped onto my long time friend Benny who also lives in around the area. While I was ordering food, I bumped onto one of my clients from the military industry. Wow, what a small world!

We started the jamming session with just 3 of us as we were not sure if Lester our drummer would appear. We were so happy when Lester turned up at our condo.

All in all, despite the lack of practice and the change in chords, we did pretty well. Within close to 5 hours of jamming session (including the very laborious setting up of equipments – ahem, out of touch – and the cutting of the jamming CD at the end), we have recorded 8 songs of close to 45 minutes of length. That is a pretty good accomplishment. And having Selrol around to give support and help taking band photos was just icing on the cake. Who knows? One day we may need those pictures in Rolling Stones magazine or one of our greatest hits albums.

While helping Lester to move his drum set back to his car, he turned and asked me where do I see this band is heading. It was just me and him and the bees and the trees. I pondered for a while and told him that we shall take it to the next step, select some good songs out from out set and really do something about it.

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Fun Jamming Session

Despite the fact that Singapore rained non-stop since last night, our jamming session went on as planned. The rain was heavy and we had some difficulties transporting Lester’s drumset and Jason’s guitar to my home studio.

This was our first jamming session of this year and this was also our first jamming session showcasing our brand new equipments: Cynthia’s new bass (Warwick), Jason’s new guitar (Ricken Backer), and my new guitar (Gibson Les Paul). All our new toys are priced in the region of S$2,000.

Instead of going for quantity (number of songs), we went for quality. Through iteration, we were finding new ways of playing the songs. The funnest moment of the session was when Lester finally got one part of the song right after many attempts (in the middle of the song), he raised his hands in air, and was too excited to continue the song. We all bursted into laughter.

Lester left his drumset in my home and we will have another session this Tuesday (public holiday).