UndefLog

Yesterday, I traced a tiny little endeavor-of-a-band in my kids.

Finally!

The middle one started to play some drum rhythm out in the yard, on a plastic bucket and a tin bowl. The eldest, used to being in charge, took up directing and proposed a different rhythm - overly complicated and loud, but after some trimming of the edges, we found a variation that didn’t sound too bad _and_ could be remembered and played by the middle one.

No hesitating here! Grab that guitar and add some bluzy riff to it!

… if only the youngest would be somewhat less enthousiastic at ‘me-too-ing’, we could have started a real jam!

Yesterday Nico and I have had our heads actually thinking again. Lousy us, the ‘main’ amplifier is already moaning for maintenance for months now, so we decided, since Dav’s abroad and Renaat didn’t make it either, to bring our screwdriver and actually screw the speakers and the amplifier.

So we did.

The mid speaker is broken and so is one channel of the amp… Luckily we had an electronics course in college; unluckily we graduated already ten years ago now. What’s this - a coil of copper wire! Oh no, a short circuit! No wonder… Hey the resistance of this condensator is waaaay too big!

No matter what - we’ll fix it! Heads up! It may take us a while, and fortunately Renaat keeps bringing his piano amp which we can also sing thru, but we definitely will fix it.

My kids are loving the Bumba dvd their mother. In fact, I’m quite fond of the music there, too. It’s kinda very-happy-circus like.

I’m quite sure Nico will like it, regarding the latino vibes he wants to impregnate our heads with.

Whow - we had two reps in less than two weeks!

Renaat is getting into it now; he even let his cellphone in the car last friday. The keyboard is a welcome change of sound, and versatile, too.

Songs we’re starting to master again:

• Snickers
• May2Nite/It’s going Wrong
• Sheets

Songs we mustn’t forget:

• The Coral: Dreaming Of You

Another minirep, another song started. The Corals did well, yesterday - need some other instruments now. We took up David Byrne’s ‘Like Humans Do’. The Tablature we got was good enough to get us started, but lacked some chords and a total view. Bass tabs are unfindable. So either we go on and find it all out ourselves (it’s a fun song, after all) or we lay it down for now and look for another startuppable song (since we’re in quickstart mode).

I even start to get the high pitch right on ‘DreamingOfYou’! Excercise, excercise!

Yesterday Nico and I took up rehearsing “Dreaming Of You” from the Corals. (They won’t mind I guess) (I would be flattered if I were them).

It has a great Bass-line, it is very Undef-style: fast, ridiculously short, ska-ish rhytm guitar. I even find the Corals lead singer more or less sounds like Nico himself, although I took up the singing myself - maybe this should change.

Took us about half an hour to play along, and another half hour to play from the sheet. It’ll take us about the same time to add drums, and a piano won’t do any bad either.

Find the lyrics etc… on http://undefided.free.fr/songs/sound/cover/dreamingofyou.txt