I’ve been looking on craigslist quite a lot recently for opportunities to play my bass. The first one I found was a weekly jam session group in Kailua where I can just go and have fun. The second was a hard rock group that practices on Saturdays. They already have a bassist but he’s starting to not show up sometimes because he has other gigs that he’s playing, so they need a backup bassist. I’m learning the songs they play, and it took me a little while to train up to playing the types of bass lines they use. One song, “moonchild”, has a steady 16 beats-per-measure rhythm that I can keep up with, but need to practice before sounding good. It switches to 18 beats in a measure later on!

Today I’m meeting with a singer named Yuri who wants to start her own band. She heard a little about me and said she wants to work with me before even meeting me. So…I wonder if that means it’s been hard for her to find people? Anyways, I want to eventually write some songs with drums, bass, electric guitar, piano and female vocals. I’m envisioning a jazz-rock hybrid type of sound. I hope Yuri likes my ideas.