An Amazing Music Jam Session....

Well this was a long cherished dream of mine. To play guitar in a full jam session with lots of instruments. And here it came true.

We had Flute, Harmonium, Synthesizer, Madelin, mouth organ and my guitar. Its been a long since I played. Almost not in great touch since last 2 years. But since I came to stay with these guys, I resumed my practice to try getting in shape. See, the point is if you want to play music, there has to be somebody along with you playing it too, to get inspired and motivated. You can not practice alone, after a point it gets monotonous and boring. Rohan, my new room mate is a pro dancer. He is dancing on lots of dance types like salsa, mamba, bollywood etc now for a long time. He was also a part of the cultural group that represented VIT (my undergrad college in Pune) for various cultural competitions like Firodiya Trophy etc. So point is he is very much into cultural activities. He arranged for a music jamming session on last weekend. (Weekends here are so awesome with cricket match, music playing etc etc). And I happened to go out to apartment of another friend of his. Now these guys in this apartment were also from Pune and were part of cultural group of PICT College in Pune. Three of them played almost every instrument that was present in there. ( It is my own theory that once you can play a single instrument, and once that music sense is developed, you can play any instrument if you have patience to learn them. I almost got to drumming in three months. The process becomes fast).


They had gathered all the above instruments at their place. So we 4 people were going to play and rest were singers or spectators. Total head count of 10 people. I was a bit skeptical as because I had lost practice I was a lot rusty and did not have stamina to play continuously. But once it started we went on and on. Well for those who do not know, it does not happen that you name a song and it can be played. For a player to play a song on some instrument, it has to be set early. Typically there are some common favorite songs like, ok, I will give the list later, which are common and well known. Well I used to play lot of songs before but over the time I forgot.

And it was awesome. Playing in co-ordination of all the instruments. Singing along with it. I always used to feel a rush of adrenaline in my blood whenever I used to see the singers sing or somebody playing some instrument on stage. But when I was in my undergrad I did not know how to play guitar, but I had an exceptionally strong desire for it. So even though I could not sing / play instrument during my college days (which I so regret, but that is fine, priorities were different then), I learned guitar for 3 years after my undergrad college ended and after I started job. It was too hectic to manage job and practise it daily in class. But somehow I managed to do it. Then I also managed to sing on stage during my company annual function (Song Ashwini Yena....) which was given best song award. No it was really good, people liked it a lot. But I still had this secret ambition of playing in almost full orchestra. And now I was here, playing it and enjoying it. It was awesome. I enjoyed it to the core.

We played.
1. Papa kahte hai
2. Pal (KK)
3. Dooba Dooba
4. Guncha
5. Purani Jeans
6. Summer of 69
7. Hotel California
8. Neele Neele Ambar pe
9. Do Dil mil rahen hai
10.Kuch na kaho ...

Well I forgot some other songs. Some exclusive instrumental songs like Malgudi days on flute, Yanni on Synthesizer etc. Deepak, Kaivalya and Ashutosh were the PICT guys, I was the VIT guy. Not all songs had all instruments but overall it was awesome fun and a great enjoyment. Had an awesome time.

I love music and I was learning "Blues" (its a type like jazz) on guitar when I had to discontinue it and come for MS. It feels so great to go back to good old days and live them again with same fervor. :)


-Mrunal