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Because many bands play their own songs a bit differently to how they are in the record.
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As a band though we are particularly proud of our drummer for getting the intro to 3 Minute Hero right having seen Gilson Lavis cocking it up on Hootenanny.
I don't mind a few mistakes - I'd rather watch someone with a bit of passion and energy make the odd dodgy note than a clinical and boring performance but when people just haven't learnt the parts or got the feel right it can be a bit cringeworthy.
By all means play your own interpretation but, unless you're deliberately playing your own arrangement with different harmonic feel, please play the chords right!
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Major and Minor chords in the wrong place is not "playing it different" it's just wrong tho!
The most 'wrong' I ever heard was a function band that did Sinatra's My Way using just three chords
I've talked about this a bit in my '30 songs in 30 days' thread.
What an audience notices is when a band misses the stops, when people come in at the wrong time- things like that are quite obvious.
If a band consistently gets a few chords wrong but the whole band goes with it, only musicians notice that- especially if it is something like playing an F#m instead of a D major.
The main thing is being consistent with it.
A bir of an aside- check this out- the Bad Plus do a version of "Chariots of Fire" which is very much a major tonality.
This is a bit of a masterclass in how tonality is flexible- you can overlay major and minor things and they will work, providing you do it consistently.
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If there's one thing I hate more than bands trying to play note-perfect covers, it's musos criticising them for not doing.
Play the song, not the record.
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Decent players can go with stylistic changes (e.g. if you choose to do a reggae version of a rock song) but messing with the structures (e.g. the lengths and sequence of verse, chorus, break etc) can cause a lot of confusion. However, if you never use deps, I suppose it's not an issue.
SOF, as has been mentioned. Getting everyone to start at the right points needs everyone to have a very good feel for the beat of that intro guitar part.
i saw a band a few weeks ago, doing Sultans of Swing. The guitarist did a fairly ham fisted attempt at all of Knopfler's original licks. Then when it got to the arpeggio bit at the end he just strummed some chords very quickly. Ouch.