Yes! I had my first gig! Never thought that I'll have it today. Playing on acoustic drums for the first time in front of twenty people, I cannot tell what a good feeling it is! :) Kati & Csaba invited us to listen to some blues music in the Club Hey at Bellevue. We’ve been there before. It's a nice place, free entry, good music and cheap drinks. I was in the office till late, and my new low latency USB sound interface had just arrived, so it was not a trivial choice. I thought that it can wait until tomorrow, so I went to the club. I just arrived when they started playing. There was a guitarist, a bass player and a drummer. They played good music, and we had some drinks. It was good; what else could I say. The guy who introduced the band said that after them there's gonna be an open jam session and everybody can participate. I still didn't think that I'll play tonight. But during the band's play I was bantered with questions about when me and Csaba will play publicly. I still didn't think anything seriously. But when the band left the stage and some other people were getting together for some jamming, there was no drummer. So, will I play? My friends asked. Sure! :) I already had some drinks, and they needed a drummer! I went to the people and said that I can play if they want but I'll ask the sound engineer to make the drums quieter. They said sure, we'll play some Rock and Roll tunes, just stay in beat. Awesome! Then I went to the sound engineer asking him to make the drums quieter. But then what did he say? They have another drummer! Maybe the next song. What a shame! So I went back to our group. But in less than a minute he came to me and said that he was wrong, they don't have a drummer, so I can play. YEAHHH! So he gave me like ~6 sticks...What??? I chose two sticks which looked alike and then I sat down in front of the drum set. That's a feeling! I tried to hit the snare drum quietly, but after the first strike it was obvious that you cannot play on this drum set quietly. Probably even if the sound engineer muted the drums it would have been loud enough to overplay the others. But it seemed to me that the he didn't touch the knobs, so I had to be confident. We started the song immediately.. and it was awesome! First I just played quarter notes with the high hat with one kick on the kick drum and one hit on the snare drum. After some verse I started playing eighth notes on the high hat and being more virtuoso with the snare & with the kick drums. And with the crash cymbal of course. I had a great time! The best feeling was to see the people at the bar shaking their head on the beat when I started the eighth notes. It was obvious that I'm a beginner, but they watched me and it seemed they like it. At least nobody had left till we finished the song. :) Csaba also joined with the harmonica. When the song ended it was obvious that my performance ended for tonight because there were more experienced drummers, but this one song already made my night. I didn't want anything else. I'm still smiling.. :) My first gig, with acoustic drums for the first time... Awesome!!
Update: Thanks for Egmont for the pictures!
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