Members SpacedCowboy Posted January 20, 2005 Author Members Share Posted January 20, 2005 Originally posted by discount star Drummers are like cars...a necessary evil. The drummer HAS to be the best one in the band. If you have a good drummer, you can basically take a {censored} on top of what he plays and it comes out cool. We recorded the other night. My drummer played to a click (which, granted, isn't the most fun thing to do). He couldn't keep time with it. He was very adamant that the click was 1/100th of a second off. :mad: And of course, as we all know, the drummer is NEVER wrong...That's why I bring stuff in more or less intact, because if the song is TOO skeletal, our drummer will just go nuts...he'll start talking about this 6/8th time bridge we could go crazy on.AND I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED THE SECOND {censored}ING VERSE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members discount star Posted January 20, 2005 Members Share Posted January 20, 2005 Sounds like my drummer. If he'd put half as much energy into trying to keep good time as he does trying to come up with different parts and changes he'd be a lot further ahead. I've resided myself to the fact that after this project is done...so is he. Nice guy but I'd like to shove those {censored}ING CRASH CYMBALS up his ass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpacedCowboy Posted January 20, 2005 Author Members Share Posted January 20, 2005 Originally posted by discount star Sounds like my drummer. If he'd put half as much energy into trying to keep good time as he does trying to come up with different parts and changes he'd be a lot further ahead. I've resided myself to the fact that after this project is done...so is he. Nice guy but I'd like to shove those {censored}ING CRASH CYMBALS up his ass! If he's got room in his rectum, I'll throw in my drummer's innumerable amount of China Boy cymbals for good measure. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mmmiddle Posted January 21, 2005 Members Share Posted January 21, 2005 Originally posted by SpacedCowboy This is for those who are the, for lack of a better phrase "main songwriters" in their band...When you bring in a song to show the other members, do you usually have the arrangement all written out and say, "this is what I want you guys to play and don't change it" or do you say "OK, here's the verses and chorus, (or sometimes, it could be just a hook line or something) what do you guys think?" and then you sort of build the song up collectively from there? Pretty much all of the above depending on how I feel about the particular piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kranak Posted January 24, 2005 Members Share Posted January 24, 2005 I guess I have it lucky. Our band consists of two writers the drummer and myself. The drummer is a competant guitarist and we will bring ideas to each other, map them completly out and then take them to the band, usually recorded. Some times the second guitarist, bass player or singer will add a little texture here and there or bring in a part, which I have no problem with. The drummer and I just happen to be more prolific at writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HuskerDude Posted January 26, 2005 Members Share Posted January 26, 2005 I love all the musicians in my band, I know my bassist is a far better bassist than me, same with the guitarists. So I tend to just bring in a few chords and the lyrics, with a basic melody. Everybody writes their own parts around the basic blueprint, and it's almost invariably better than what I would have come up with. Some songs have changed pretty seriously from my initial concept to the what the band plays, but that's fine by me. If it's good, it's gonna be good as a country thing, or a pop thing, or a rock thing or whatever.As for the drummer issues, since I am a drummer first, I feel like I can communicate with my kind reasonably well. I have taken away everything but kick and snare from several guys, and made them listen to Harvest for hours on end before they record their parts. Forcing limitations on someone, especially at the last second, can make for some really great performances, that almost always make up for the hurt feelings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members discount star Posted January 26, 2005 Members Share Posted January 26, 2005 As for the drummer issues, since I am a drummer first, I feel like I can communicate with my kind reasonably well. I have taken away everything but kick and snare from several guys, and made them listen to Harvest for hours on end before they record their parts. Forcing limitations on someone, especially at the last second, can make for some really great performances, that almost always make up for the hurt feelings. Be my drummer!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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