RyanEmerson
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Alright, this isn't really a recording question, but whatever.
I'm a semi-accomplished guitar player to decided, after a few years of fooling around, to start a band of my own. We have two vocalists, a good bass player, but no drummer. All of the talented drummers I know either don't have enough time to commit, fool around too much, or are already in a band.
And if there's one thing I've learned in my extremely short musical career, it's that even more important that talent, it's important to have people who work great togther. So we've recruited a friend of mine who's only been playing for about 6-8 months.
Now he can keep a basic beat, and he can do simple runs, but they're slightly out of time, and going inbetween versus and choruses he tends to get sloppy with fills. What we've done is convinced him, somehwat, is to simply have two patterns, one for the verse, and one for the chorus, with no runs. It sounds okay, but he gets bored and frustrated. Also, whenever he messes up, unlike us, he completely stops and makes a big deal out of it.
Is this more of a phsychological thing, or is it simply experience?
My main question is, we have a gig coming up in about 8 or 9 weeks, and he needs to improve...quite a lot. How would he go about doing this? Practicing to a metronome? Doing the same thing over and over, or wearing headphones and copying different songs. Or is it something that only tiem can fix?
Thanks.
I'm a semi-accomplished guitar player to decided, after a few years of fooling around, to start a band of my own. We have two vocalists, a good bass player, but no drummer. All of the talented drummers I know either don't have enough time to commit, fool around too much, or are already in a band.
And if there's one thing I've learned in my extremely short musical career, it's that even more important that talent, it's important to have people who work great togther. So we've recruited a friend of mine who's only been playing for about 6-8 months.
Now he can keep a basic beat, and he can do simple runs, but they're slightly out of time, and going inbetween versus and choruses he tends to get sloppy with fills. What we've done is convinced him, somehwat, is to simply have two patterns, one for the verse, and one for the chorus, with no runs. It sounds okay, but he gets bored and frustrated. Also, whenever he messes up, unlike us, he completely stops and makes a big deal out of it.
Is this more of a phsychological thing, or is it simply experience?
My main question is, we have a gig coming up in about 8 or 9 weeks, and he needs to improve...quite a lot. How would he go about doing this? Practicing to a metronome? Doing the same thing over and over, or wearing headphones and copying different songs. Or is it something that only tiem can fix?
Thanks.