JAMMING & Applause From the Audience!

In this blog post I will attempt to explain the
complexity of my thoughts and feelings that accompanied
this second JAM-Session Playing for an Audience

Making Music Making Use of CHORD CHARTS, Learning Many New Things

I have been Playing for Audiences in Jam Sessions, and I Played 

in a Little Music Group for a few Years, based around experimenting with Making Music, and also actually Composing Music, only because of Corona, other activities etc. etc. 

we didn't play together for a long time,

Last Year I Started in a New Music Group, 

that's more based around 

Playing actual Cover Songs, 

from already well known Existing Reportoire, I was asked to Visit this Group Years ago,  

and Funny enough somehow it seems like I wasn't meant to be in this group (yet) because 

somehow I thought is was in an other location than I thought is was. For Years I somehow was under impression that it was in an other building. I tried to Visit the Music Group several times and simply looked for it at the wrong place at an inirely other location than I was under the impression it is. 

Than finially I discovered that it was at this other location. 

Practice Setup 

and Stage Setup

Last year I Played Several times already, also learning to get a little more handy at 

Learning the Basics of Folding 

a Music Stand, and just practicing making Music in this New Group, 

Practicing both in Our Practice Setup

(in a circle that makes it easier to see each other and communicate more easily) 

and Practice in Stage Setup, 

and also actually Playing for Audiences, and some time ago in November 

we actually perfomed for a bigger crowd during 'Informal Care Day'.

(we even made a recording with the Microphone at a rather High Altitude so that 

it mostly picks up the Music instead of all the noise in the Crowd) 

A CHORD Book divided in Blocks,

Makes it Easy to find your Reportoire:

For this we have a nicely compiled Chord Book with CORD CHARTS, nicely organised 

in 5 Blocks all with 6 Songs (except for Block 5 that only has 4 Songs) 

In the Video here above you can see How to Create a Professional CHORD CHART.

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Making Music with Our Little Music Group

Recently I joined a little Music Group with weekly meetings to talk about Music
and also actually making some Music together. We also talk about Music repertoire
and about songs we like, or talk about melodies and song lyrics we made.

Songwriting:

I also made some notes about Songwriting, writing down some lyrics now and than, and
for some time I have been collecting info about Songwriting from those notes,

I noticed that many Songwriters start with a Melody that has a certain - feel -
and later on develope lyrics that fit that feel, while I seem to have been
doing it the other way around.

So possibly this might be an interesting other approach
to experiment with.

Reading More
About Songwriting:

You can read more about Songwriting and read
a few tips for Songwriting in a blog post titled:

Writing For
The Waste Basket

and I also have a special blog post
about A Highly Special Music Notebook we created, that you can
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Read More About
Me Making Music in a JAM-Session

JAMMING & Aplause from the Audience

Hermine Deurloo Toots Thielemans Fan

Inspired by Music

This Morning in TV Show 'Coffee Time'
was Musician Hermine Deurloo a guest
Her great Idol is Toots Thielemans

read more:https://t.co/HP7Jrgyl1m

Listen to her Music in precious Tweet!#music #musician #harmonica #musicvideo #InstrumentalMusic #Netherlands pic.twitter.com/WiEJWGrFWY

— Edelhertdesignstudio (@dvanduuren1) 27 november 2019

Discover More Posts About Toots Thielemans on this Blog !

Some time ago in a previous blog post I wrote
that I have seen Hermine Deurloo Perform
with Mike Boddé in a Toots Thielemans Tribute concert

Great Music Listening;

Toots Thielemans Tribute Concert

Perfomed by Hermine Deurloo

and Mike Boddé

I actually did briefly see Hermine and Mike walking by

near the Bar, from De Boerderij in Huizen,

knowing that Mike is a well known Performer, and that

Hermine also is a well known Mouthorgan player, only not

knowing that she also worked together with so many other

Big Names in Music like for example:

Toots, Ladies of SOUL; Candy Dulfer, Trijntje Oosterhuis

and even Al Jarreau as I later on discovered

reading her Hermine Deurloo Wikipedia Page

When you regularly read my blog posts, you know that 

Besides Guitar & Piano, I also frequently practice

Playing on my own (Chromatic) Mouthorgan myself

with Our Little Music Group

At the perfomance in Theater De Boerderij I noticed

that while I also can play soft, I usually am inclined to mainly blow

pretty hard on it with great intencity. Hemine has

a much more controlled air flow.

It is Inspring to hear that there is a wide array

of room between ON and OFF :) 

While I do think that my "Full Throttle" Approach of playing
can work pretty well with playing an Up-Tempo Blues during a
JAM-Session Like with playing what I named

"Out of the Blue BLUES"

And might actually add a special Dynamic to it, althought I did discover recently that
with playing with Our Little Music Group that with playing in a more accompanying way
it's good to know that it's possible to also choose for a
more controlled approach to playing.

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We Visited 4 Living Room Festival Performances ! ! !

(More Recent Posts)

 About The Living Room Festival Performances

As you might have seen in one of our previous Tweets you see here below,
There have been some Special Living Room Festival Performances,

And you know that besides Making Music Myself I also like to

Look at TV-Shows about Dancing & Singing or TV-shows

like The Masked Singer, and I like to go to Music Perfomances,

an other thing that I enjoy doing is to

Write about Music & Musicians Like I recently wrote about a very special

perfomance from Floor Jansen & Henk Poort (see video)

singing the Phantom of the Opera

in a very special way!

While we already have been busy with putting our 3 Special Themed Christmas Designs in our Webstore, and Our Highly Special Personalizable

Christmas - MENU - CARDS 

etc. etc. 

We also made time for listening to Music as well,

In this Blog post you can read about some of the

Living Room Festival Perfomances I have been to. 

The First Woonkamerfestival
will be on November 10th in Huizen

Artists will perform in their home
entrance is free,
but a small donation is welcome

read more:https://t.co/ilhxhA1rtr#music #musician #singersongwriter #song #performing #guitarist #vocals #Singing #Jazz #Soul pic.twitter.com/GPYNCl2DXU

— Edelhertdesignstudio (@dvanduuren1) 27 oktober 2019

As you see in the Title of this Blog post;

We Visited 4 Living Room Festival Perfomances,

And below you see some info about them, and with
their Band Names & Contact Info


Nr.1 Music Perfomance, including Story Telling
was from a Member of my own Little Music Group who performed some of his own self composed songs!

Nr. 2 was from SERENDIPITY see Tweet here below

that was located in a Restaurant that we Tweeted About Before 

Living Room Festival

Group SERENDIPITY
Acoustic Pop, Soul, Blues and Countryhttps://t.co/wUpN3dG7U0

Location: aan de Kade, Huizen#music #Songs #guitarist #songwriter #POPMUSIC #soulmusic #BluesMusic #countrymusic #performance #stage #photography #artists #acoustic #vocals pic.twitter.com/fWLNxZmqz7

— Edelhertdesignstudio (@dvanduuren1) 11 november 2019

SERENDIPITY had several great songs like
for example "Starry Starry Knight" that I know performed
by Don McLean, a song about Dutch Post-impressionist Painter Vincent van Gogh,
and his famous Painting "The Starry Night". They even had a self composed song as well !
They sing amung others with Polyphonic voices.
Their site: https://www.facebook.com/serendipityloesjemickeef

Nr. 3 was from The Sweets, also Polyphonic, an actual Close harmony vocal group
Their voices all have their own sound, and both individual and
combined together sounding pretty amazing !
Their site(s):
https://www.facebook.com/4thesweets

Nr. 4 was from BUÉE with Great Sounding
Easy, Jazzy, Swingy Music.
Their site: https://www.buee.nl

SOON:

More info about a New JAM-Session SOON ! ! !

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And this Music Video from 

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How To Video's Playlist 

While as you might know I do like Talking (Writing) about Music, and for example Talk (Writing Blogposts) about interesting Music TV-Shows, and I also developed myself some more Musically with frequently Talking a lot about Music, with other Music Enthousiast, and also actually doing things like for example,

Playing Together in a Little Music Group,

Playing among other things Guitar, Piano, and Mouthorgan 

You could even see me Perform on Stage, in

  JAM-Sessions ! 

Because of the help of Electronics, 

During the Lock-down people could even Play Together Online 

as I wrote about in this post titled: 

  Playing Along with your Favorite Bands and Songs, or with Others from All Around the World with this Special Service ! 

On Kingsday in 2020 (when there was a lock-down) 

I even played (Guitar) together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as I wrote in 2020 in a post titled: 

  Today on Kingsday, I played together with 

 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ! ! ! 

I like to Play Along with Music that I like, also for example attemting to Play Along like a Mood-Pianist and frequently make an effort 

to take little steps in attempts to Improve my Musical Skill-Set. 

For example some time ago I added a few new Skills, after I wrote a Post Sharing a Video about 

BeatBox Brilliance and from Spencer X I learned in a 

How To Video (I added to our How To Playlist), 

the

How to BeatBox Basics 

in 1 Minute 

Just for Fun and our of Curiousity I Learned 

the Basics to make 3 Sounds 

as a Human Beat Box; 

To make the Sound of a 'Kick-Drum', a 'Snare-Drum' 

and a 'High-Hat' (Tsss) 

 and....,

Just Recently I had a look at a program called Rebirth, 

It has things like Programable Drum Patterns etc. etc. It sounds pretty good, 

Just like Martin Garrix Exploring 

the world of Electronic Dance Music ! (EDM) 

(Also See Our Special 

Mixing Music Page 

 Near the TOP of this Blog)

I already did Experiment with it a little and I did have a look at the Manual, and was wondering if I could find something of a Tutorial Video online about it and this Video you see here above is 

one of the Video's I discovered. 

Telling about a Song Build 

out of 5 Patterns;

Intro, Fill, Chorus, Break, and 

Back to the Start

Talking about such a 'Architecture', or Structure, 

I also have a Post about 

'Song Building' in 

a Video about Songwriting 

 in this Previous post.


Rebirth has been one of the First Successful Sythesisers

Music Connections

Although I don't write many posts on this blog,
I do have a strong connection with Music;
I even worked full-time in the Music Business
for a while.



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Because of the recent death of Prince there's
more of his music on the radio. (Also several other
big artists from that time passed away recently.)
It brings back a lot of memories from my youth
and also of my time in the Music Business,
many years ago.

On one occasion at my Tennis Club there where several
artists performing. At one funny moment a singer dropped her
long hair over the head of a bold man from another band,
so it looked as if the man had long hair.

Tennis Tournament:

I also remember that we had a Tennis Tournament
with collegues and Artists. Among the artists
was the singer who sang at my tennisclub. We played
in the same poule. Everybody had a lot of fun
and we had many laughter attacks.

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Now recently, on Kingsday, at our town square
there was a performance of the same singer from that time.
A great chance to see and hear her again, so I went there.

She asked someone from the audience on stage to sing and dance along.
To my surprise she choose me.
After such a long time (more than 15 years ago) she
didn't recognize me but the relaxed
and fun vibe was still there!








Lucky enough I did recognized a Rumba in the Music,
so had some notion about how to move,
to the Music, only it was

Pretty spontaneous, and somewhat awkward,
because while I do have voice-/microphone experience
(with amung other things being with our Little Music Group, and
also from Job Experience), do know the movie GEASE, and
am pretty familiar with most of the lyrics of the songs,

Unfortunately especially this particular
track Nr. 13 as I recognized later on
on my GREASE CD titled:

'Those Magic Changes'.

I hardly knew any of the lyrics from.

I also am not particularly used to standing on stage and
combining dancing with acting out a song that
I don't know very well, without any rehearsal, or sound check
hardly hearing myself, so to my surprise the last
slightly to high note, probably must have sounded
somewhat like a Sea Lion that did catch a cold.

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Getting Aware of The Groove to Play Mouthorgan

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Do You Know what 

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Some time ago I took a look on our Twitter thats like 

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looking at some of the

Being Creative and Being Able to Improvise

(talking about Improvising, I had to Improvise to Fix this Mouthorgan 

as you can read about in one of my previous blog posts titled: 

A Real - JAMMED - Mouthorgan for Doing a JAM-Session)

As you will know with some frequency I like Making Music

Any Idea What I do To 

Develope My Music Skills...?

I frequently came together with Our Little Music Group, only now I have to Improvise 
and do some other things to keep developing my Music Skills,

Now as a practice I occasionally play along with music on tv or on the radio, on my Mouthorgan.

Or playing along with Music that I Choose to play like for example recently playing along
while listening to Music from MAZE, Franky Beverly - Changing Times -,
see this song halfway this Music Video.

Also see my post titled:

Getting Aware of the Groove To Play Mouthorgan

As you might know I also have been Creating a CHORD BOOK although
not exactly an impressive amount of reportoire yet,

It did however provide me with some Chord Sequences to practice.

Making Music, Easlily Playing Along

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as an answer to a previous Comming SOON post,

On this MUSIC Blog you can Read about

A Variety of things just as
several intertwined 'Storylines' constantly making you want

Round Up Post About Some of the Recent Topics I Wrote About, Like About the Customizable DJ Head Phones Great CHRISTMAS GIFT Idea ! ! !

Some time ago I wrote a post titled:

Some Blog Post Topics Comming Soon

In this post I will give you a little 'Round Up'

Some of the Topics I Expected

To Write About 

and (mostly) did….,

I wrote that I expected to write some more blog posts
about how I am progressing with making my

My JAM-Sessions, So Many Angles To Write About

For some time I have been procastinating to write about
my JAM-Session, because there are
So Many Things To Tell So Many Things To Show and there also are so many Angles
that I could write about it.....,

I also actually already did write about it a little
from the Angle of where I get my Inspiration from, (and the
Angle of Playing for An Audience,) 

and from the Angle of My Mouthorgan itself you can read about it
in these  3 Blog posts titled:

* JAM-Session: Recently I Played In a JAM-Session

What Else You Can Read On this BlogOffering You A Variety of Topics

On this MUSIC Blog you can Read about

A Variety of things just as
several intertwined 'Storylines' constantly making you want

My Performance on Stage, Sort of as a Singer....,

Any Idea What Kind of Music Instruments

I Usually Experiment With? 

With Our Little Music Group I
usually do things like Mouthorgan, Piano or Guitar, experimenting,
making constant improvements, and (Nowadays) I usually
also use a Microphone with it.

So from this (and from Job Experiences) 

I am pretty used to using a Microphone 

Great Music Listening; Toots Thielemans Tribute Concert Perfomed by Hermine Deurloo and Mike Boddé

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In a Previous Post you could read about


Some Worldclass Mouthorgan Magic

Performed by Jazz Harmonica Player
Toots Thielemans and Stevie Wonder Together!!!

(I also wrote about it in another
Blogpost: About Toots Thielemans)

Last Saterday I went to a Toots Thielmans Tribute Concert

Performed by Hermine Deurloo
& Mike Boddé & Frans van der Hoeven
in 'Theater De Boerderij' in Huizen.


You can read about Hermine Deurloo at:

www.herminedeurloo.com/#

Besides Guitar and Piano, I also frequently practice
Playing on my own (Chromatic) Mouthorgan myself
with Our Little Music Group

At the perfomance in Theater De Boerderij I noticed
that while I also can play soft, I usually am inclined to mainly blow
pretty hard on it with great intencity. Hemine has
a much more controlled air flow.

It is Inspring to hear that there is a wide array
of room between ON and OFF :)

Their performance was a great Tribute to Toots Thielemans,
with a variety of his music, with amung other things the

Famous TV-tune from the
Dutch TV-series Baantjer a TV series that has run for years on Dutch Television. (it actually is a TV series  

that I once weirdly enough 

got a tiny 'Part' in as an Extra ! when they filmed in our Class-room at our School)

 

It was pretty special to See Actor Piet Römer (famous from TV) standing for our Class Room.

So it's not that after that I imidiately expected Casting Agencies to make me an instant Movie-star, however come to think of it,
You can also see an Impressive Cameo Appearance of Myself, (from a 'Just a few years back') and
at that time I actually did know somebody that did get a leading role in an actual 

Big Screen Movie Production !

For me living near Hilversum ('Hillywood') where the Broadcasting Stations are it was not that unusual to spot people known from Film and TV, infact at that time I also had one of my Teachers that was known from TV.

You Can See that I Added the TV-tune VIDEO to our 

 YouTube MUSIC Video's Playlist. 

 They also performed amung other things the TV-tune from
the Sitcom Stanford and Sons that brought back
many memories.

It was real Great music Listening, The accompanying Piano and the Base Sounded Smooth and if Playing is Effortless to them.

Related Topic
Previous blog posts:

A Real - JAMMED - Mouthorgan
For Doing a JAM-session

Recently I Played Mouthorgan in a Jam Session

Jazz Singer Sietske

Songs, Images and Music

Lidl South Sea Jazz 2012

Laren Jazz 2010

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Besides, as you can read in a previous post titled: Today on Kingsday, I Played together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ! ! !

I also have Played frequently with Our Little Music Group and Occasionally in actual JAM-Sessions as well ! With this jamkazam.com Platform you can even Play with several other People 

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Getting Back Into a Fun & Playful Mood to Play

Do You Know That I 

Not Only - Listen - to Music, and that 

I also Frequenly Actually PLAY...? 

As you could read for example in my post 

JAMMING & Applause From the Audience!

You know that besides frequently Making Music with my Litte Music Group playing on instruments like Piano, Guitar and Mouthorgan, I also occasionly paticipate in actual JAM-Sessions

As I also predicted to probably write about as mentioned 

One of the Blog Post Topics On this Music Blog you Like the Most is about 'Melody First'

BTW Did You Know We Have a 

GUITAR TUNING Page 

on this Blog....? 

On my blogs I am taking Inventory, looking at some of the Blog posts, 

and Blog post Topics you like the most. 

One of our blog posts that generated a lot of Interest 

On this blog is our post titled: 

  This Is An Interesting Blog Post About 'Melody First' 

I wrote about Songwriting on this Blog in multiple posts before, 

Songwriting is also actually something that I occasionaly experiment with doing myself. 

Only as you can read about on my Writing Blog, I frequently WRITE, doing things like 

Journaling, (for example for taking notes about my Music Developement), Writing Blog Posts, Tweets & Postcard Messages and even Writing Serial Twitter Tweets etc. etc.

Possibly that's why with Songwriting I still seem to be somewhat Inclined to First Start with the Text Lyrics instead of with 'Melody First' like many Songwriters seem to do.

 (Like for example Pop Artist Katy Perry tells about her 

 Songwriting Process in the Video you see 

in this (Previous) Blog Post.)  

While as you might know I play amung others Mouthorgan Just playing along with for example Music on TV or Radio, Together with Others like with Our little Music Group, (with the Occasional (Online) Orchestra) or occasionally in actual JAM-sessions etc. etc. 

Since I also occasionaly Attempt to Provide Harmony by Playing Chords and attempt to play some Piano, and Guitar, 'Melody First' also must be something that I can do an experiment with if I happen to get Inspiration for something like that. 

When I do get Inspiration for it, I will probably write about it in my Music Journal, 

as you can also read about in a previous post titled: 

  Journaling & Songwriting