Tonight I was part of my first shed session! And it was AMAZING!!!
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, a shed session is where several musicians get together to jam. But it's different from a jam session because it focuses more on one instrument. For example the two types of shed sessions I've heard of are a drum shed session and a bass shed session (shed from hereon in).
So in a drum shed - which tonight was - you have several drummers, each on their kit, and some other accompanying musicians. And as the jamming is going on, all the drummers start off playing the same thing, and then each one takes turns soloing and then coming back to the beat. All this while the accompanying musicians are playing whatever groove, pattern, or song being played at the moment.
We went on for over 3 hrs! I recorded it and I have 3 hrs and 15 minutes worth! Of course not all of it is straight playing. I want to sort through it and post some of it up here on my blog, and do 1 or 2 short videos of the session on Youtube.
DH
