Wow, amazing what a jam CD and a week of listening to it can do.
We met today (after a 2 hr road bike ride I'm surprised I could stand). My friend never got around to learning Johnny Blade but we tried it anyway. I really wanted to cover it since I actually wrote notes for parts and got pretty good at it. But we instead moved on to Never Say Die.
Two rehersals and we started recording. Man, that song made me tired! We did it three times, and it was a blast. Then we went into a 20 mins. jam that covered an intro very Hendrix-like into Van Halen riffs and some of our previous jam songs.
The CD this time is only 30 mins, but what a difference. First off my drumming is more precise, no messing around with useless fills. The snare, hi-hat and cymbal hits are hard, fast and clean. We're beginning to really sound like we know what we're doing...
The jam song really showcased my improvements. This time I didn't wander around too much trying to find that 'perfect part', if I did find one I held it a lot longer and it really worked. That was it, we were done and cut the CD. Can't wait to do even more.