My band has been doing Sex On Fire for nigh on 3 years or so - and do you think our drummer can play that intro drum part over the riff..? .Nope. At least he actually attempts to play it now - for a couple of years he just used to come in with the vocals (Lay Where You're Laying...etc..) much to the bemusement of the audience members I could see thinking ...err.. there's a bit missing here right?
This is only marginally better.. for some reason the count on it just throws him.. it's all on a sort of off-beat - I realise it's not the easiest part to nail..but.. damn...every time I play the intro riff I'm hearing the slight off count of the drums against my guitar part... grrr...
Full disclosure - I used to hack the intro to Johnny B. Goode - until I finally rolled up my sleeves and learnt the damn part properly - not to mention play it with a clean tone (which at volume in a large club - you're kinda exposed but I like it !). Like many of our brethren I used to smother the part in distortion and approximate it (blame Hendrix!).
...she's got Dickie Davies eyes...
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Barring major life events there's Literally no excuse for it other than laziness and lack of respect for the effort your colleagues have made
And if one band members level of ability and talent is much lower than the others then they need to go as well.
Ffs its really not hard to do some homework from time to time.
Sex on fire is a shit song anyway
I don't enjoy playing with others who can't keep up but just about everyone has something they can't get right and it's no reason to chuck a band member (esp an otherwise good drummer..)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I'm not talking "I don't like Song X, it's a sucky tune" (there are always songs you don't like much: grit your teeth and play them anyway), I'm talking one that just don't work at all for you. Ones where you can't even see the groove, let alone get into it. Probably, in a set list of 100, there will be one or two at most. The sensible thing to do is have a "right of rejection". Any band member can simply say "I don't want to play Song X, sorry, I don't get it". Once. Probably twice. (A third time and you start to wonder if they would be happier in some other band, playing some other genre.)
Yep, there are five or six songs out of your 100 that you drop and replace with something everybody likes. Where is the harm in that? Chances are they weren't your best songs anyway. Cull the dross and move on.
Are you guys in this as a career or as a way to play music together and stick a few quid in your pocket at the same time ?
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Does your band try to play everything the exact same as the record? If that’s the most important thing then you’ll have to drop the song.