Sometimes it happens and there is no solution. I recently had a gig where there was a tall drum riser. On a very large stage. All of the guitar players had their amps out in front of the drum riser pointing towards the audience. The back of their amps were blocked by the carpet covered drum...
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I have been playing with my garage band since 1964. 60 years. We just played together again last weekend.
Granted we never became famous and two if the six members have died. But we still get together and play every year for our annual party in Burbank, Ca.
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Improving my short term musical memory. So that I can instantly recall song intros and tempos. I keep playing with bands that don't follow a set list. They call out a song one second before they want it to start. I do have a cheat sheet for the songs, but it takes me about 10 seconds to find...
Regarding drum sounds for specific kinds of music and specific sounding bands; it is heavily dependant on whether or not you are mic'ed up and/or you have a sound person adjusting the band sound and balance.
For instance, tonight I'm playing a gig where they have a house sound tech. He puts...
The low barrier is mostly a natural talent thing. As a drummer, if you can keep a solid tempo OR you can follow along with the band’s tempo, you qualify as a drummer. Also, who you are friends with can get you into a band.
So yes, the barrier is rather low if you want to join a local bar band...
Yes, no hearing protection back in the 60's and 70's. AND, even though the guitar amps were loud back in the day; the loudest instrument was always the snare drum. And guess which band member was always closest to the snare drum.
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When drummer Keith Moon blew up his drum set on stage, the explosion left Pete Townshend deaf in one ear. And eventually contributed to his future hearing loss.
I sould have said "may have contributed to Pete's hearing loss.
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I use a pair of cheaper in-ears. I run the sound through a small battery operated headphone amp. Works great. I can also run the sound through my 4 channel mixer that has an equalizer. That would be even better.
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Very interesting discussion. My father was a drummer. My mother was a singer. In our house music was always playing. And when there was no music playing my mother was singing. I remember as a toddler sitting in front of my father’s bass drum while he was playing. My back was against the drum...
Well, it sounds like he is tuning his drum in a perfect place to tune his drum. Then it sound bad at a gig. So I'm thinking he needs to just reverse the process. And if he can tune his drum is a garage with loud music playing then it should sound good in a band in a dive bar. How many gigs...
#1 Tune your snare drum in the largest room you have. An empty garage is good.
#2 Set up a large PA or a big stereo with large speakers.
#3 Play the song “Jump” by Van Halen. Turn it all the way up
#4 Tune up your snare drum while the song is playing.
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I agree with you DrumDoug. Almost every band I was ever in fell apart because of the drama. In general musicians have big egos.
If you are in a band where everyone gets along and they all have fun playing, you are very lucky.
The last band I was in I was good friends with the singer. The...
Use the melody and the phrasing of the words to create the drum fills. I assume each song has different words, phrasing and a different melody.
Listen to Keith Moon and how his drum fills matched the singing and the guitar parts.
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