{"id":42,"date":"2008-01-11T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-01-11T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:55:00","slug":"switching-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/switching-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching it up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it can be really fun to switch it up some.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night, Ned and I rehearsed some of the band&#8217;s tunes, but Rob (percussionmeister) couldn&#8217;t make it, so I grabbed the mic and brought it over to the drumkit and rapped\/sang the songs (two rap tunes, one funk) while I played the drums. It was borderline scary, performance-wise, but it was a whole lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me that if I ever really wanted to be a decent drummer, I probably could if I just invested the time. Plus it sort of freaked me out that I was able to keep a beat at all while I was singing (rapping).<\/p>\n<p>It really made me want to buy a drum set, actually, but I don&#8217;t have any room for one. Perhaps when I finally get my garage cleaned out I can do that.<\/p>\n<p>I really want to come up with a tune where we can switch it up during the song, since Rob plays guitar pretty well and I&#8217;m sure Ned can figure out the bass. Almost like a chinese fire drill, but with instruments!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is Killeen &#8211; it should be a blast! We love the duck!<br \/>(and no, that &#8220;u&#8221; is not supposed to be an &#8220;i&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it can be really fun to switch it up some. Wednesday night, Ned and I rehearsed some of the band&#8217;s tunes, but Rob (percussionmeister) couldn&#8217;t make it, so I grabbed the mic and brought it over to the drumkit and rapped\/sang the songs (two rap tunes, one funk) while I played the drums. It was borderline scary, performance-wise, but it was a whole lot of fun. It reminded me that if I ever really wanted to be a decent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/switching-it-up\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}