Johns' geometry
Jamming. Ask anybody and they’ll have a version of it, from paper getting jammed in the copier to sitting and thrashing out ideas. But to a musician it means grabbing the guitars, drums, amps and belting out a few tunes.
Right, since we’ve got that out of the way, boiling down to the whole point of this. Jamming (in the aforementioned meaning) is a lot of fun, quite obviously. You’ve got a whole bunch of styles and feels floating around. As well as some people who are really experienced and others who are not. Not to mention the laypeople hanging around. Now throw in some smoke and alcohol and you’ve got yourself a virtual carnival going.
Anyway, that having been said, I’ve noticed of late that the best jamming, in terms of tightness and flow comes when it’s a trio. For me it was a guy on bass, a guy on guitar and me. And it was one of the best jams I’ve ever been to, simply because it was so easy to co-ordinate with only two other people.
If you think about it’s almost geometric, the progression of things. A trio forms a triangle if you connect all of them. There are no awkward lines. And it’s impossible to collapse. Each point will always be in sync with each other, because they’re all connected. And heaven will burn before a triangle dissolves. It’s the ultimate form. The absolute.
If you look slightly closer you’ll find that there a whole bunch of things, if not everything, that are so efficient because of their innate geometric skeletons.
It’s here that I find myself at a loss for words. I’ve only just stumbled on the theory and the sudden urge to write just crept in. Therefore I haven’t had the time to substantiate this with a few more examples. If anyone out there thinks up anything, well, do tell.
I for one will henceforth jam only as a trio. Or make sure that I’m sufficiently drunk to play quartet, or more.
Jamming. Ask anybody and they’ll have a version of it, from paper getting jammed in the copier to sitting and thrashing out ideas. But to a musician it means grabbing the guitars, drums, amps and belting out a few tunes.
Right, since we’ve got that out of the way, boiling down to the whole point of this. Jamming (in the aforementioned meaning) is a lot of fun, quite obviously. You’ve got a whole bunch of styles and feels floating around. As well as some people who are really experienced and others who are not. Not to mention the laypeople hanging around. Now throw in some smoke and alcohol and you’ve got yourself a virtual carnival going.
Anyway, that having been said, I’ve noticed of late that the best jamming, in terms of tightness and flow comes when it’s a trio. For me it was a guy on bass, a guy on guitar and me. And it was one of the best jams I’ve ever been to, simply because it was so easy to co-ordinate with only two other people.
If you think about it’s almost geometric, the progression of things. A trio forms a triangle if you connect all of them. There are no awkward lines. And it’s impossible to collapse. Each point will always be in sync with each other, because they’re all connected. And heaven will burn before a triangle dissolves. It’s the ultimate form. The absolute.
If you look slightly closer you’ll find that there a whole bunch of things, if not everything, that are so efficient because of their innate geometric skeletons.
It’s here that I find myself at a loss for words. I’ve only just stumbled on the theory and the sudden urge to write just crept in. Therefore I haven’t had the time to substantiate this with a few more examples. If anyone out there thinks up anything, well, do tell.
I for one will henceforth jam only as a trio. Or make sure that I’m sufficiently drunk to play quartet, or more.
posted by Nishant at 7:03 am
1 Comments:
good observation, thou maketh. also, more ppl = more band-member friction... like wht happened with tinleaf :P
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