The drummer in me

This is the last set up I did. It's the same one as the other photo I posted earlier, but this one looks better. I've been thinking about drumming a lot recently. The TOSOG project that I want to do might be renamed coz it's not all my own songs. I will be colaborating with Eve, Josh, Glenn and Sherwin for this one with me on drums. Not the usual people from church which I am very comfortable playing with, but playing with this other group of friends creates a new buzz in me and I look forward to find out what new frontiers we can go creatively.

So far the project has two genre that I am exploring. The Indie and Progressive side. With Glenn and Sherwin, it's going to be a prog rock hat for me. It's something I always want to do besides playing indie/hardcore-metal. I am sure playing with them all will make me a better drummer. There are five songs in the songlist that I'll be working with them. Here are the songlist:

1) Eve's song (Coz she wrote the riff, I came up with the words, it's in-your-face hardcore)2) Forever (something I wrote when Chia Ee was born, no lyrics yet)

3) A Principle Within (I have no music to this song yet, but I have the lyrics and rhythm to it. It's Charles Wesley "I want a principle within" screamed out screamo/ hardcore style)4) Flowers in the Sand (I originally wrote the riff to accompany the lyrics of" Scratch", but the amazing Glenn Fong transformed it to "Flowers")

5) One-sided Dice (Glenn wrote the song with some funny weird programmed drum grooves, he played it in the studio during the 2nd venture as Figtee and I played a Led Zep "Rock N Roll" inspired groove to make it rock the way it should. It's an instrumental)

6) (For one reason Glenn and I forgot the lyrics or how it sounded, but we all call it the "Tourniquet" inspired song. The opening groove is like Tourniquet's "Vanishing Lessons")

So here I am in Seoul updating this and thinking of the next course of action. The musicians I mentioned above have been informed. The next thing is to set a series of jamming sessions to complete the songs. I plan to record them by March next year, but Eve will only be hear for about 2 months, so the hardcore/indie ones might be priority. The Prog Rock ones need more touch up and practice on my part. For this reason I have a drum pad here with me in Korea. I arrived here on Sunday (12 Oct) and I have yet to touch it due to the early call time and the late nites chatting with SW online. Let's see how things turn out to be when I return to Singapore after this trip (which lasts for 30 days. It includes 21 days in Japan). My intention is to take it easy when i return home because SW will be giving birth in Dec. I hope I'll have time to jam, rest and work on some ad hoc shoots as I try to spend more time with the family, but I already sounded busy, don't I?

More updates will come... let's see how this transpires.