Drumming at open mic again

Our little community of musicians had another open mic at The Angel's Share in Hitchin. Playing outdoors in December is not ideal, but it was not as cold as some other times we have been there.

This time I took my Yamaha DD-65 electronic drums. I still needed a case for all the bits as I use a proper bass pedal and I take a stool. It is all pretty heavy. The Yamaha is not bad, but it has limited options for setting the volume of each pad and some are a bit quiet.

I was planning to be playing with the others in The Moonshots jazz group, with Hive account@daniellemurray and Hive account@purplesinger, but a couple of other people asked me to play with them too. Then I did a solo spot on ukulele.

I have just included some clips in the video (and using 3speak now it is working again). You can only see me now and again in the first one as there is just not room to fit everyone in shot. Then there is a bit of me with Brian doing Valerie. That is totally unrehearsed and I have to figure out something to fit the song. He did Golden Brown by The Strangers and I was not even going to attempt that as the timing is weird. I did a few with another guy too, but there is no video of that.

I end with my regular Christmas song. I was actually doing some jingle bells with my foot, but that is barely audible in the mix.

It was a fun evening with a few old friends there who I have not seen in a while. I hope to be playing more next year, but have no firm plans yet. The jazz stuff needs a lot more work.

Rock on!

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