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Hiya ladies and gents,
I play in a 90s-rock cover band. When we're playing live, our bass player often says we're playing the songs too fast. (I can tell when we're playing the songs too slow, but I guess I have trouble knowing when we're playing too fast.)
Our guitar player starts many of the songs, and our bass player thinks he's almost always going too fast.
So my question is ... do any of you ever "delegate" the role of timekeeper to someone else in your band? I'm kinda reluctant to, because as the drummer, I feel like I'm supposed to be the best timekeeper in the band, but clearly I'm not :/
I was thinking of bringing it up in our next rehearsal that maybe we all look to the bass player more, or even that he count us in ...
Thoughts/suggestions/rude comments?
CV
I play in a 90s-rock cover band. When we're playing live, our bass player often says we're playing the songs too fast. (I can tell when we're playing the songs too slow, but I guess I have trouble knowing when we're playing too fast.)
Our guitar player starts many of the songs, and our bass player thinks he's almost always going too fast.
So my question is ... do any of you ever "delegate" the role of timekeeper to someone else in your band? I'm kinda reluctant to, because as the drummer, I feel like I'm supposed to be the best timekeeper in the band, but clearly I'm not :/
I was thinking of bringing it up in our next rehearsal that maybe we all look to the bass player more, or even that he count us in ...
Thoughts/suggestions/rude comments?
CV