I’m looking for some music to jam to with my drummer buddy, both to entertain ourselves whenever the guitar players are unavailable, and to better lock in with each other.
He’s getting a bit bored with playing the same basic rock beats all over and I thought he’d be up for the challenge.
Anything comes to mind?
So far we’ve done The Who - Boris The Spider, it’s a blast on bass, and is built upon just a few repeatable fragments so it’s easy to break up and improvise around a little bit.
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Muse is always fun.
when I jam with my buddy we just play what we like, but another fun one is Talking heads - this must be the place. there is a lot of room to mess around with that one.
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VERY nice work on Hysteria. I can’t keep that chug going for the whole song.
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F’king hell @Paul_9207 !
Just WOW 
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Thanks Howard, it’s stressful, I don’t even play it anymore.
Thanks Mac!
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Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection
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I’m going to throw this in. It’s a simple repetitive bass line that leaves a lot of space for the drummer to go crazy over it. Many moons ago, I would play this with my brother on drums, and he loved playing this song. I played it on the E and A strings, a lot lower than Sting does.
The Police
I Burn For You
Brimstone and Treacle Version
Start at 2:40, after Sting is done singing. That’s the cool, fun drummer part.
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Just had to post this somewhere because I’ve been having a lovely time each evening jamming with my jam buddy.
He doesn’t know he’s my jam buddy, but he’s a terrific jam buddy.
I’ve gone and made an entire practice playlist of his very groovy grooves.
Maybe someone out there will also enjoy jamming with my jam buddy.
I hope so.
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Had a GREAT afternoon of jamming yesterday with a drummer from one of the old bands I use to play with….
The lead guitarist that I play with when we both played in another group (we both dropped out of that group together) couldn’t make the last minute jam so it was just myself and the drummer….
All I can say is DAMN!! How cool to play with JUST a drummer and put full focus on tightening up the rhythm and groove sections of various songs!! We played Country, Classic Rock, Country Rock, Motown, and Blues!!…. All played to “dissected” backing tracks (bass & percussion tracks removed)….
I have spent a lot of time using my Alesis drum machine which works great, but is nothing like playing with JUST a real live drummer…. We’ve played together for a year or so before I left that band, but that drummer/bassist chemistry seemed to have never left…. DAMN GOOD DAY!!
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Today a couple of my jam buddies showed up and we had a great afternoon of music…. Looking at starting our own thing…. The drummer and I played in one band together a couple years ago, and the guitarist and I were together in the last group I played in….
Here’s a list of some of the songs we jammed out to……
Green Onions
Mississippi Queen
Still Got The Blues
It Won’t Last
Breakdown
Tush
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Keep Your Hands To Yourself
All Right Now
Bad Case Of Loving You
Funk #49
Hey Joe
La Grange
The Thrill Is Gone
Tennessee Whiskey
Green River
Old Man Down the Road
Fortunate Son
Twenty Five Miles
Can’t You See
Cold Shot
Oh Pretty Woman
Going Down
Who do you Love
Pride and Joy
Look at Little Sister
Too Rolling Stoned
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Those songs would make one hell of a good setlist. Sign me up!
If you’re not aware of this James Gang factoid…enjoy! The first album “'Yer Album” LP had a hidden track that most people never got to experience. There was audio on the inner-most final groove. Automatic turntables never got that far. You needed a manual turntable to hear it. On side one, the voice said “Turn me over”, over and over again until you turned it over. On side two, the voice said “Play me again”, over and over. Blew me away the first time I heard it after buying the LP. 
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Thanks!! Playing with a drummer from one band and a guitarist from another makes putting song lists pretty interesting…. We each came up with some of our favorite songs to play to and that’s how we ended up with that list. We plan to add more, but only songs that we all agree to play together. All three of us got a bit tired of having to play songs we didn’t like with the bands we’ve played with so only do what we want and have fun doing it…. I had the 8 track of “Yer Album” and I believe I heard Joe say the same thing on it…. Listened to that 8 track forever in my 1964 Chevy Impala…. Great memories…. Now you got me wanting to do Funk #48…… 
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A ha! You got the hint. Bravo!
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