long distance band relationship...

[mbc113]

hey folks,

due to some prior committments i'm going to have to be gone for 9 months next year, but I'd really like continue making music with the other folks in my band. I don't think i can convince them to come with... so, it seems like we'll have to resort to trading recordings back and forth (we write pretty collaboratively), and spend some long weekends together practicing...and try to do some short 1 or 2 week tours when we can. does anyone have any experience working from a distance (a couple of thousand miles) with a band? any success?

[drewsifer]

My drummer (he is the man) had to go thru several full reconstructive knee surgeries several years ago. Because of this he had to re-locate back to his hometown in St. Paul MN. Our whole community was shocked and saddened. he made a full recovery and is currently going to school up there. over the past three years we have been creating albums without being in the same room, city, or state with one another. All you really need is gmail or have a site where you can download music. This is the digital age, making music together over long distances is very easy. My strangest observations have been the commucation of our musical ideas. even though we havent been playing together, we have convayed our creative ideas to one another allowing both of us to continue to grow musically together. I booked a session back in Febuary at wall to wall studios in Chicago. I asked my drummer to come down for the weekend and record. even though we hadent played together in over a year, we played thru the tunes like we had been rehersing them together for years. some of these songs were in odd tims signatures and feels. This is quite an intresting felling to commucate musically with someone being very, very far away. it is really not too much different minus the lack of body language and vibe you get from playing with someone.