BFrench501
Senior Member
Happy New Year folks!
I'm struggling to get myself into a band that I am happy with playing as I want to be in a functions band. I seem to come across some common obstacles and would like some tips.
1) "Applicant must play to click". I can play to click - but my point is that how can I use decent in ear monitoring and get a good mix of the band through my ears unless they have a good sound guy etc?
Half the time the bands can't play in time to drumming anyway so why the drummer has to use click is beyond me.
2) Promoting myself. Plenty of drummers on youtube seem to hire expensive studio time and a film crew to do the multiple angle thing etc. Is all that necessary just to get in a decent function band?
It seems there is such competition - there are 20 deps sometimes going for the same gig and I just don't know how to make myself stand out. It is very awkward for me to ask as I am effective asking for you to teach me how to do your job, but as this is a worldwide site and not just the UK I would hope I am not stealing your work.
I don't want to be a full time professional necessarily, but I just want to get more dep work as I enjoy playing different styles. I just don't want to have to spend £2000 on studio time, a flash website and film crew to then find it's an absolute waste of time.
If there's any information I'm omitting please ask me and I'll try to give answers.
Thanks
Baz
PS Sorry for another long post.
I'm struggling to get myself into a band that I am happy with playing as I want to be in a functions band. I seem to come across some common obstacles and would like some tips.
1) "Applicant must play to click". I can play to click - but my point is that how can I use decent in ear monitoring and get a good mix of the band through my ears unless they have a good sound guy etc?
Half the time the bands can't play in time to drumming anyway so why the drummer has to use click is beyond me.
2) Promoting myself. Plenty of drummers on youtube seem to hire expensive studio time and a film crew to do the multiple angle thing etc. Is all that necessary just to get in a decent function band?
It seems there is such competition - there are 20 deps sometimes going for the same gig and I just don't know how to make myself stand out. It is very awkward for me to ask as I am effective asking for you to teach me how to do your job, but as this is a worldwide site and not just the UK I would hope I am not stealing your work.
I don't want to be a full time professional necessarily, but I just want to get more dep work as I enjoy playing different styles. I just don't want to have to spend £2000 on studio time, a flash website and film crew to then find it's an absolute waste of time.
If there's any information I'm omitting please ask me and I'll try to give answers.
Thanks
Baz
PS Sorry for another long post.