Making music when High(Jamming)

[TrickyKid]

Id just like to say that me and my friends have been smoking weed and jamming for about 5 years now .Its a process we know we grab are guitars
bongos etc go to a nice park sit on a bench roll up a joint as we sit back and take the beauty of nature in .The J gets sparked and it slowly goes in circles
Not long after I usually grab my guitar and strum a simple chord (having fine tuned the instrument before ignition)For me the guitar comes alive when im stoned I let the guitar tell me what to do i play the chord and find a rythym theres 6 strings on a guitar so you can make one chord sound very alive by
emphasing the different parts of the strings on the rythym.So once thats going i let my mind travel i imagine for example im on an old steam train
going through old school america maybe 5o years ago and the im seeing nice rolling hills and farms from the window the decor inside the train is all old school.And then i see this wise old black man with a top hat and a cane by his side he looks about 45-60 he looks sad (that chords strumming along and one of my mates maybe playing some gentle beats on the bongos and another some simple picking of notes on guitar)I imagine what this man may have expierenced what frustrations he feels with life .Then i start to sing
.Sing with passion and feeling emotion ,this balck mans emotion im the messenger from his soul to my friends playing and to those listening .Words just come ,i dont worry to much about what i say but how i sing it as long as you sing like you mean it its cool .Now things should be moving and from this point on its almost like were listening to a radio but were in charge of how it goes if that makes sense .
If anyone relates to this and jamming when stoned
Id be keen to hear your thoughts
Peace
Tricky kid

 

[Guest]

i love to do this i play drums and percussion and man its my favorite thing to be stoned as hell and jam.. when i DJ i also make sure im super stoned. the music just runs completly through your body. i am currently leanring the didjeridoo and man not too good to be stoned casue of cotton mouth but still fun...

 

[Guest]

music and marijuana were meant for each other. Everything just flows. Atleast for me. I know buds that say they cant play stoned cuz they get shittier. Not me, I use marijuana as a tool to open up my mind and create.

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

booze is no good to jam on. weed is fine.

 

[TrickyKid]

Yeah booze isnt good for focusing .When your stoned i fined you become completely focused on what your doing and nothing else matters at that particular time .

 

[Farmer John]

Weed an music go well together...I dont remember ever playing anything without smoking some, it's a sacrament.

 

[Landogarner]

Haven't had the pleasure of this experience yet but I am currently learning to play the guitar, and the didgeridoo is next on my list so I look forward to it.

 

[Guest]

ever since i started smoking, its been what ive done. i find it especially good for a strong sativa, like super silver haze. thats is the best way for me to get creative.

 

[BudgetBud]

Great thread.
I love playing guitar and drums ripped, like others have already said the music flows through you and you are completly focused.
I find guitar to be particularly enjoyable because i feel like i am at one with the guitar, theres no thinking about what note to play next it just comes.
Keep bringing music to the world!

 

[Guest]

Thank golly for my home studio, I would be lost without it. Other than gardening all the darn time, when I can enjoy my harvest I will smoke and compose for hours: play bass, guitar, program drums and synths, arrange and do vocals...

..then i go and find my friends, get them high,and force them to listen to the mayhem...

 

[stizzle]

After I smoke I always have the urge to start jamming on guitar. For me when I'm really high and playing, it's like I don't even think about what I'm doing. Just let the music flow from within

 

[zeno]

i usaly listen to the musik.
i have the luxory to switch over to a othergenre,
i am dj ,sometimes i go ours and ours and mix everything i can think of.
i do also slidetrombone,and play in a litlle band,write the musik on paper and learn the band the songs...
one good thing about musik,when it hits you feel no pain...so hit me with musik(bob marley r.i.p.)

 

[Paddi]

one good thing about musik,when it hits you feel no pain...so hit me with musik(bob marley r.i.p.)

Thats a line I love

Paddi

PS: I´m a bassplayer. Normally smoke before spreading good bass-vibes around

 

[Exsequor]

music and marijuana were meant for each other. Everything just flows. Atleast for me. I know buds that say they cant play stoned cuz they get shittier. Not me, I use marijuana as a tool to open up my mind and create.

I'm a guitarist and bassist for the band Impulse. I often use MJ as an aid in releasing my "creative juices" during the songwriting process (keep in mind i am a daily toker). However, there is no way I would get blazed before a show. I've got to keep my technical ability as stellar as possible. A beer on the other hand...

 

[bluebublelove]

I'm a guitarist and bassist for the band Impulse. I often use MJ as an aid in releasing my "creative juices" during the songwriting process (keep in mind i am a daily toker). However, there is no way I would get blazed before a show. I've got to keep my technical ability as stellar as possible. A beer on the other hand...

dunno if you have any reason to be discreet and keep your identity anonymous (i.e. growing) but it would make it relatively easy for someone to figure out who you are...if you didn't realize this...


but to stick to the topic. I've played music my entire life, I've loved and listened intently to music my entire life as well. on the other hand I've not smoked forever but I have smoked for a major majority of my life and as others have said, it is a sacrament and can't remember many times I have "jammed" without any herb....not saying you need good smoke to be creative, but you can truly connect to your instrument and the thc makes it much easier for the brain to open up and connect patterns and make relations to notes and rhythyms....I play bass and have for many years, I enjoy playing by myself, with just a drummer or with a full band.....but when I am playing in a full band I am never to keen on playing bass for a guitarist who is gonna play somthing structured using powerchord strums and simple things.....the only kind of guitarist I enjoy playing with is one who can shred....as in completely and totally shred, someone who can do some electric jazz improv off the top of there head, someone I can relate to and fall into a groove with. I've been a huge fan of live improv music since I can remember.

anyone else enjoy going to shows that focus on improv jamming and focusing on the incredible grooves, thick jams, etc?

 

[mrgrowmez]

nothing i love more then a smoke and some jamming. ive come up with most of my favourite licks stoned..........

dont know where in oz your from man but me and my mate loved going to botanical gardens and having a smoko and jam there in brissy. in fact any of the parks in brissy are good for smoking and playing, so great to be out in the fresh air playing and smoking.

 

[drrico]

Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this.

I've played high and I've played low and I've played psychedelicized and I've played "straight". I have played professionally for many, many years and have recordings under all sorts of states, altered or otherwise.

While I enjoy what I do while on the noble herb, the recorded testimony reveals that I play way better when I am centered and straight than under any other condition. In the studio, weed has cost us beaucoup bux in lost time and required retakes. Live, we have disappointed our dear fans when we were exploring inner and outer space by not giving them our full and undivided attention and abilities.

Any more, my policy is that when I work for hire, I keep myself clean until AFTER the last note rings. Then its spark em up. Its the least I can do for the paying customer.

But jamming with friends, sure, herb is a good ride and we have lots of fun.

 

[Kev555]

I play guitar and playing it stoned is crazy fun. Especially with all the effects like delay and such.

I try not to rely on pot to get creative since I've always believed you shouldn't depend on something or someone to do something. If I can compose well straight, then I'll also be able high.

Jamming stoned is another story. When I'm too high I'm not very good since I could play 5 notes and find it really good. Just a little high is usually best to change the groove.

 

[perakko]

Most of the stuff i've written for my band, i've written stoned. For me it works well, while being stoned is easier to forget the norms and push your music to new directions. The best stuff usually comes unforced, after hitting the weed, the the first licks i start to play, often sound the best and end up being songs. sometimes it feels as i am just chaneling this music that comes somewhere outside of myself.
The jamming to me is the most important aspect of playing an instrument. The red hot chili peppers have always been my favourite band when it comes to improvising and i was blessed to see them at last this summer at roskilde (even though the show was quite lame...). With my own band we also jam at every gig, maybe 1-3 jams in a show. Never played a gig high yet 'cause of the nervous factor but eventually want to try that also.

 

[DoobieDuck]

drrico says "the recorded testimony reveals that I play way better when I am centered and straight" I agree...but I do smoke when writing and creating new licks...great post...interesting to see the musicians among the ICers I have made friends with...Dr. Duck.