Looking for a drummer for psychedelic jazz band - NO HIRED HANDS

Los Angeles CA

Description

Looking for a drummer that has the time and commitment level to join a psychedelic jazz band as a MEMBER. If the gig is paid, we will split it up equally between the other members but that’s the extent of it. If money is your motivation or reason for playing music, you can skip the rest of this ad. Must be able to learn tunes inside and out (structurally AND as far as learning some of what the previous drummers were doing - especially the cymbal patterns). We rehearse in Van nuys and would probably be about once a week in the early goings until we get tight enough with about 10-15 tunes then we can focus on just gigging and less rehearsing (until there’s new material to work out). I can’t stress enough the importance of being reasonably available for gigs and rehearsals tho. A little about what you’d be doing and the music itself: it’s all instrumental, very monotonous and droney kind of “jam band” stuff. You’ll have times where you need to reel things in but trust me there is PLENTY of room to play “busy” and as a matter of fact, it’s HIGHLY encouraged. We’re most definitely not looking for cookie-cutter drummers and love a lot of fills everywhere. You will also NEVER play any straight kinda funk beats with this band lol, sorry, that “tight in the pocket” drumming doesn’t fit our sound. You’ll be playing more jazzy and loose with alot of swing on the cymbals and etc. It’s also damn near a must that you have a pair of mallets as we use them on quite a few of tunes too. Think of most of the drumming you’ll be doing as some tribal type jungle sh*t! Lol..Very Ginger-Baker-esque If all this sounds cool and you’d like to hear some of the tunes just let me know. Please also include a few examples of your playing in your reply tho (MP3’s or videos) so we can check you out as well