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 Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:56 pm
I'm a bassist in a band. Our guitar player just started using his electric guitar. He's been using his acoustic lately because his electric was being re-done and his amp had broke. So now we have his electric and a new amp. But he has it way too loud. And I have to be up around 9 (out of 12) to hear myself. As well there is so much distortion that you can hear the different notes but it's not as clear. And it's so low it seems like he's trying to take my job. And then there's the fact that it's in drop D tuning so I have to tune down which is a pain even though I have a tuner. And then when we play the songs, they suck. Mind you this practice we only played one song that was previously played. 2 were new. There was also alot of messing around during the practice. And the one previously played song was way better when it was acoustic. It goes E G C A and for the chorus it goes C A EG. And it sounds bad now because it's a low E and not a high E. It sucks. And now since the music sucks, I don't enjoy playing. And so it's not fun anymore. It really really sucks. so much.
End Rant.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:01 pm
Why not express that to the rest of your bandmates? Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. The music can not go smoothly if all the waves are constantly clashing with each other. Perhaps you just have a tone-deaf guitarist (god knows i've had my share of those) whom needs to be reminded of the cooperation every successful band has and that it is a team effort. Needless to say, playing louder doesn't necessarily equal playing better. (im sure most here know what I mean from hearing the many random people choking "Stairway to heaven" and the like at our local music stores.)
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:18 pm
You're absolutely right. However if anyone is tone deaf it's me. I'm one horrible singer. I mean I can still tell notes apart and stuff. it's just I can't hit em or get my vocal chords to do what I want. such as express accentuation. errr rhythm. or however you spell it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:21 am
Well.. some people arent just meant to sing. Or at least, they have to work harder at matching their natural singing pitch with their tunings. But when I say tone-deaf people, I mean people who just keep on playing out of scale with the rest of the band and do so without noticing it. Sadly enough, we just decided to follow him until we found a better/equal guitarist to replace him with. stressed
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:31 pm
I dont mean to sound like a jerk but if you guys dont click musically then either drop him or find yourself a new band.
I went through like 6 bands before I found people who are not only easy to work with, but who click musically very well with me.
Pyroboy (my guitarist) and I work really well together, but it took about 4 years of us both trying out for different bands and starting different bands to find eachother.
We both enjoy the same styles of music, but also very different vast styles wich helps us with our "music maken" it gives us more diverse ideas.
We know how to work with eachother, and how to express our musical goals and ideas to one another.
Within forming a band you'll go through memebers or tryout memebers until you find someone whom you play well with and enjoy playing with, hell were on our fourth drummer now.
Oh and sorry about any spelling, grammer, and all that jazz.
Its like 1 30 in the morning.
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