I usually have a laptop next to me when practicing so it can go up to ten minutes.
Same situation for me too, really. Or I'll get a text I have to reply to. If this leads to a string of texts then I'll start getting annoyed and just ignore everyone...
Tcolumbia37 - I'm fairly disciplined with my bashing at practise as I find it annoying too when I see other people do it (even at gigs!).
But I think guitarists are possibly even worse than drummers, trouble is, they start playing a song, unrelated to anything you are going to do and they think it's a performance where everyone is listening to them when really we are all just trying to burn their head off with intense lazer-stares until it stops.
Or they solo endlessly. Even worse, if you have 2 guitarists they'll either battle OR solo over each other.
If you add a bashing drummer to the mix it has to be one of the most unpleasant experiences going. Then the singer lies down on the floor usually and stares at his bits of paper (that he's read a thousand times before) and wishes he was dead....
Musicians eh? aren't they annoying?
Agreed, guitarists can go overboard as well. Whenever I set up at a gig, I turn my amp wayyy down (usually so that only I can hear it), and then just sit next to it and warm up a little. But once I've got my volume back up, I don't play a single note outside of the context of the song, unless something goes wrong (Bass player breaks a string, broken mic, etc.). Then, I'll just play some quiet jazz pieces or something to fill the time.
Even worse, if you have 2 guitarists they'll either battle OR solo over each other.
If you add a bashing drummer to the mix it has to be one of the most unpleasant experiences going.
Aside from being ...
Killed
Tortured
Raped
Harm to your family or friends
Maimed
Going insane
Starving
Homeless
Addicted to ice or smack
Assaulted
Car crash
Painful disease
Deformity
In fact, I'd even prefer it to:
Traffic jams
Forgetting a critical task at work
Having someone else mess up a critical task at work
Reading lists like this ...
I just spent two 14 hour days on a film set miming playing the drums in a scene that was a dance. Out of the 28 hours I was on set, I probably spent 6-8 hours behind my kit, the rest of the time was spent eating, playing my guitar in my trailer, chatting up the multitudes of cute extras, and surfing the net on my phone- lots of DW and Gear Page time! In all that time I only hit my drums a few times, and that was only by accident. So basically, I got paid a crazy amount of money for flailing my drumsticks in the air.
Can you spill the beans of the movie or are you under a NDA?