Musicians Invite Citizens To Be Instinct In The Middle Of The COVID-19 Pandemic

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JAKARTA - The government's recommendation to stay at home in an effort to break the chain of spreading COVID-19 or the corona virus has made people rack their brains to remain productive and creative. The musicians are no exception. Indra Lesmana, Denny Chasmala, Gugun 'Gugun Blues Shelter', and I Wayan Balawan challenge netizens to jam happily via Instagram. This online jamming is also a filler of boredom when everyone is undergoing social distancing.

Through their respective Instagram accounts, these four musicians invite their followers to complete the videos they upload with all the talents they have. This invitation was received positively, as evidenced by the number of musicians from across genres and generations who took part.

Not only musical instruments, some people also showed other abilities to be involved in this positive action, Baim (ex-ADA Band) for example, chose to use a comb and blown plastic to produce a sound similar to a saxophone to complete the composition of 12 blues bars in F with the theme Take The Coltrane played by Indra Lesmana.

"From yesterday I opened IG, it contained all jamming with master idolque mas @indralesmana, absolute all the playing, I was sad, I wanted to jam the guitar so that it was weak and powerless, I wanted to fill the drums just barely, I hope this primitive instrument can inspire ... myself. .hell yeahhhh !!! Maturnuwun slot is Mas Indra, "wrote Baim.

There are so many other musicians who participated in this Instajam. Call it Andmesh Kamaleng, Andien Aisyah, Stevi Item, Dewa Budjana, Yura Yunita, and others. Others chose to draw an illustration of the jazz god, and put a video of the image-making process next to the maestro's keyboard game.

Indra Lesmana's campaign actually triggered other musicians to do the same. Guitarist, songwriter and producer Denny Chasmala composed rhythm compositions of God Bless's Rumah Kita song with his acoustic guitar.

The composer of the song Choose Me to Be Your Girlfriend, which was popularized by Kridayanti, deliberately only plays the rhythm part so that everyone who takes part can complete it with various musical instruments and versions. So far, he has uploaded more than 20 videos.

Gugun, the frontman of the Gugun Blues Shelter also invested in his guitar and challenged netizens to fill the blues composition slot he provided. Nothing less than Iman J-rocks, Andre Dinuth, Rama Satria, and a number of other cross-instrument musicians were involved in this campaign.

One unique thing happened. In one of the videos that Gugun reposted, there were participants who turned out not to play musical instruments, sing or just draw pictures. He brought a plate filled with rice and tried to feed Gugun.

"Eat first, meaning first, keep jamming. Jamming just keep going. Jamming continues tonight," he said, seemingly trying to feed Gugun with his spoon.

Finally, there is Balawan, a guitarist from Bali. Playing an ethnic composition equipped with complicated games, Balawan's invitation was responded positively by citizens, one of which was a flute player with the account name @jaeko_siena.

"Even though he has never met in person, Mr. @jaeko_siena is an extraordinary multi-instrumentalist, his work is also worth listening to," wrote Balawan in his video statement.

It is undeniable that the necessity to do activities at home makes some people bored. Apart from the heavier workload, not everyone is used to working from home. However, in order to avoid the faster spread of the corona virus, this needs to be done.

Until this morning, the corona virus pandemic in Indonesia had reached 790 cases with 58 deaths and 31 people declared cured. This figure is predicted to continue to grow if the community is still active outside the home.