At a session last night, and someone was playing a newly restored concertina very well ....... but it was in Ab.
Another clown (deaf as a post) insisted on playing another tune on someone elses box at the same time.
I castigated him and made him play the tune on his own. No one else joined in.
He only played one other tune all night, so I think it sunk in.
Looks like a kick, I like the alternative rackets... Swing that briefcase, have some fun with it instead of filling it and your life with stress... And all those balls, whew! I felt exillerated just watching it. Mind you, I wouldn't swing an instrument case at one of them...
Oh, lord, geoffwright, that brings me back - some time ago I was playing a Dmin tune - another fiddler had heard me play it before, and requested it so that she could record it. It was an obscure tune that no one knew, so I ended up playing solo...well, solo aside from a very loud, rhythmically-challenged musician who also didn't know the tune, but persisted in accompanying me nonetheless. On a D whistle.
And now I'm fondly remembering a small, intimate session led by one of the most patient and welcoming people I've ever met. He led a tune, and a bouzouki player next to him bashed away relentlessly. The leader stopped midtune, turned to the offender, and quietly said, "That'll be enough." And that was that.
That guy at the beginning in the first video looks just like the other guy, you know, the one that told us "United Breaks Guitars".
Don't you think ?
PS I'm glad to say that I wasn't that bouzouki player in question.
I have been in a couple of sessions that felt like that tennis fiasco! Those gigantic ones at festivals where there are far to many people come immediately to mind!
If your gathering gets too large, you should either hire a conductor, or give up trying to play together in any coherent fashion. I am not elitist--even too large a gathering of great musicians falls apart@
session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
OK, it's not music-related, really. But I couldn't help thinking of some of the "jam sessions" I attended--briefly--in the past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ZevWuxrNE
I hope your session isn't like that.
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by John Galt
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
LOL.
Do they have another add for more limited instances of inappropriate behavior?
We have a simple session etiquette, which apparently in the Wild, WIld West can't go unspoken too long or someone forgets or just bulls through it.
Don't play too loud.
Play in time.
Play the tunes (i.e., no prolonged harmonic countermelodies).
Not too much to ask, but it doesn't take a stadium full of party crashers. All it takes is one person.....
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by Will Harmon
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
Maybe this is a more common scale of the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGerySEVOnA
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by Will Harmon
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
Speaking of etiquette, what is a matter with yelling "Hump" too much? Somebody has to do it.
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by Gringo
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
Oh, I thought it was "Hemp!"
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by Will Harmon
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
My kids think it's "hop."
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by worthy
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
At a session last night, and someone was playing a newly restored concertina very well ....... but it was in Ab.
Another clown (deaf as a post) insisted on playing another tune on someone elses box at the same time.
I castigated him and made him play the tune on his own. No one else joined in.
He only played one other tune all night, so I think it sunk in.
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by geoffwright
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
Looks like a kick, I like the alternative rackets... Swing that briefcase, have some fun with it instead of filling it and your life with stress... And all those balls, whew! I felt exillerated just watching it. Mind you, I wouldn't swing an instrument case at one of them...
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
Oh, lord, geoffwright, that brings me back - some time ago I was playing a Dmin tune - another fiddler had heard me play it before, and requested it so that she could record it. It was an obscure tune that no one knew, so I ended up playing solo...well, solo aside from a very loud, rhythmically-challenged musician who also didn't know the tune, but persisted in accompanying me nonetheless. On a D whistle.
And now I'm fondly remembering a small, intimate session led by one of the most patient and welcoming people I've ever met. He led a tune, and a bouzouki player next to him bashed away relentlessly. The leader stopped midtune, turned to the offender, and quietly said, "That'll be enough." And that was that.
# Posted on March 10th 2010 by Tall, Dark, and Mysterious
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
That guy at the beginning in the first video looks just like the other guy, you know, the one that told us "United Breaks Guitars".
Don't you think ?
PS I'm glad to say that I wasn't that bouzouki player in question.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
I have been in a couple of sessions that felt like that tennis fiasco! Those gigantic ones at festivals where there are far to many people come immediately to mind!
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by AlBrown
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
Now, now, AlBrown. Mustn't be "elitist."
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by John Galt
Re: session etiquette--metaphorically speaking
If your gathering gets too large, you should either hire a conductor, or give up trying to play together in any coherent fashion. I am not elitist--even too large a gathering of great musicians falls apart@
# Posted on March 13th 2010 by AlBrown