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05-02-2007, 07:26 PM
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What does it mean to 'lock with the drums' and 'staying in the pocket'. And can you please be specific!
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05-02-2007, 08:24 PM
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05-02-2007, 08:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura County | | | You seem to be someone who knows the answer as opposed to everyone else who read and didn't reply. Maybe you shoudl've posted a link to the thread or stated the answer.
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05-02-2007, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaMale You seem to be someone who knows the answer as opposed to everyone else who read and didn't reply. Maybe you shoudl've posted a link to the thread or stated the answer. | Try searching the forums. |
05-02-2007, 08:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Seattle, WA | | OK then, but remember, this will be the one and only time that I will be your personal "search function servant". How do I learn to play "in the pocket"?
The idea of 'pocket' comes up on here at least once a month, always with the same result. No one agrees. People know what it means for themselves, that's all it will ever be. It's like defining what is 'beautiful', or what it feels like to be in love. You know it when it happens. That's is all.
Also, I'd suspect most of the people that read but did not reply to this thread did so because the heading has nothing to do with the content... |
05-02-2007, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bburk didn't we do this one recently? | We sure did... about 7-days ago.. the same exact question  |
05-02-2007, 09:13 PM
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05-02-2007, 09:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada | | | Your profile doesn't say where you're from - is english your first language? I think these terms are fairly intuitive, and if not there is a lot of reading around here on the subject. |
05-02-2007, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Seattle, WA | | | I don't know if I think the idea 'pocket' is entirely intuitive personally, but like I said everyone has a different definition.
Some people will say that pocket is identical to 'locking with the drummer' and indeed that is a major component IMO. But I could sequence some MIDI drum 'n bass lines that were inherently 'locked' but to me that wouldn't have any 'pocket' at all. |
05-02-2007, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by bburk I don't know if I think the idea 'pocket' is entirely intuitive personally, but like I said everyone has a different definition.
Some people will say that pocket is identical to 'locking with the drummer' and indeed that is a major component IMO. But I could sequence some MIDI drum 'n bass lines that were inherently 'locked' but to me that wouldn't have any 'pocket' at all. | I agree entirely, but that's why I said it was intuitive. Like you said before - you'll know it when you hear it. "Being in the pocket" seems like fairly standard terminology not just with music, but anything - groove, pocket, zone - whatever you want to call it, it applies to sports, video games, even walking! |
05-03-2007, 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote I agree entirely, but that's why I said it was intuitive. Like you said before - you'll know it when you hear it. "Being in the pocket" seems like fairly standard terminology not just with music, but anything - groove, pocket, zone - whatever you want to call it, it applies to sports, video games, even walking! | Ahh, I see where you are going. Agreed, although I've never used the term 'pocket' for anything other than music and I kinda think there are some specific connotations to 'pocket' that are music related, it's similar to 'the zone'. 
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05-03-2007, 03:42 PM
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05-03-2007, 04:23 PM
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05-03-2007, 07:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Newcastle/England | | | to me its kind like when everyone is on the ball, everyone is locked in with each other and everything just feels smooth or tight, i dont know exactly, but like other people have sed, u will know when your in the pocket, or in the zone, etc |
05-03-2007, 11:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Florida | | | Being in the pocket = being so into the groove that you don't even gotta think about it your fingers land each note perfect and goovetastic and you enter a state of mind where playing becomes 'easy' and natural, atleas thats how i'd describe it to me. |
05-04-2007, 12:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | I usually ask a drummer what he defines as the pocket, and try to stick with that. Works most of the time, especially with deciding whether to hang around after he asks me what that is
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05-04-2007, 01:34 AM
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05-04-2007, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaMale Thanks you guys really helped. | nice... it will come bro, one day you will be like " now i know what those guys on TB were talking about."   |
05-04-2007, 02:00 PM
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It's hard to verbalize.
I guess I would say that being in the pocket is playing what the groove, and by extension, the song require. Nothing more, and nothing less.
My personal favorite example of "Pocket" is "In Concert: The Best Of Jimmy Cliff [Live]" He has some monster players, and everything is very laid back, and well, perfect. It's a great example of "Just because you are capable of doing something doesn't mean you should". I like to listen to that CD on my way to a gig. It's everything I want to be | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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