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Agreed if you're just jamming for fun but if you're in a band intending to go out and play live then you owe it to your audience and your bandmates to be competent and do the songs justice ( especially if you're taking money for gigs ).
I agree that life gets in the way sometimes but if it precludes you ever getting it right then maybe being in a band isn't the thing for you.
Well, I thought "Oh, a thread about extreme BDSM." Am relieved rather than disappointed.
Not so much because I play with poor drummers - far from it. More that, with the wedding scene, there's a lot of depping and swapping around with slightly different line-ups all the time, so one guitarist will play the intro ever so slightly differently to another, and another drummer will count it off slightly differently to another etc, and so unless you're clear about what you're doing it is very easy to confuse a very, very capable drummer by me counting it out loud in a way that doesn't match how HE counts it...if you get me.
Another issue is that, and I hope I am not talking about myself here but am aware of the fact that I probably AM, some guitarists count the intro wrong and come in on a different beat to what they thought they were counting.
Actually....yes, that's almost certainly me.
Tribute bands excepted, obviously - although even then, many famous bands didn’t play exactly the recorded version of some of their most well-known songs, which were sometimes happy accidents in the studio.
"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 did say in my earlier post on here that I wouldn't expect a slavish copy of the original.
What I wouldn't be happy with is what sounds like a bloke falling down the stairs clutching a box of out of tune kazoos.
If the effort is put in to get the timing right so the band doesn't sound like they just met on the way in it's all good
However… there was one lovely guy I played with who remains a good friend who could not for the life of him remember stuff. Same result for the band though…
I would want to work on it as a band and keep at it until you couldn’t do it wrong. If it just won’t happen then drop the song.
On the whole though, much as you have to be off a certain standard to command decent money I think personality goes a long way and there are a lot of people I enjoy working with who maybe aren't the most practiced or committed ... but are a bloody good laugh to be around
Or you could just play it properly....
There are very few songs which can't be played slightly differently and still sound good. There are even fewer which can't be played completely differently and sound better than playing them slightly differently .
"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