Yeah, so true! The drummer I used to play with a lot would "jam" to songs that I know have very specific changes or accents, F/I, Ramones songs. Ramones songs have minimalist drumming and very specific cymbal hits. Anything outside of that sounds wrong in my ears, and technically is wrong. I don't nitpick, but there's a huge difference between Ramones drum tracks and "Deep Purple"-style drumming.
Break out the cowbell, boys, here come the Chambers Brothers!I'll chime in again...I don't remember what I posted before but it probably had something to do with time...so, I vote that time is the thing holding me back. I can't find the time...I'm tired too much of the time...when I have free time, I'm too tired to make use of the time and end up sitting around...when I really feel in the mood, I look at the time and it's 1:30am and I don't have much time before I have to go to work, at which if I'm not on time, I'll be doing myself a disservice.
My biggest thorn working on a 12 song CD has been poor quality monitors... Too much time spent tweaking on a song to sound great in the control room only to find it was grossly represented when ported to the 'test systems' (car, boom box, living room stereo, etc.)
Saving my paper route money to make sure this doesn't happen next time...
I am a complete beginner, but i have read from some pretty talented guys that sometimes using crappy speakers as mixing monitors gives a great final result, i'm thinking that budget monitors may give a hugely bad representation of what the music is actually sounding like, and using regular speakers might be a better choice until one can actually afford really great monitors who's mixes will sound equally good no matter what the mix is played through.