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02-02-2011, 06:55 PM
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Web Developer, Agbb, emass.com.ar | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina | | | in a live/rehearsal situation, you go left or right with the drummer?
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you know... stagewise (please declare if it is your point of view or the audience's one)
does it matter?
does it affect the way we communicate visually with the drummer? (you know it's not the same to look at the left or the right hand)
do we need visual help? can't we just listen? (suppose you are playing with a GOOD drummer)
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02-02-2011, 06:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Altamonte Springs, Florida | | | Personally, I don't care but I really want to be able to see his kick because sometimes that's the only thing I can't hear.
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02-02-2011, 07:04 PM
|  | LICENSED TO KILL - any song I play! | | | | | I'm right -handed. Yes, I usually look at my neck while I play. I like the drummer to be at my left, that way people think I'm looking/locking in with him! Plus, if there is a wall involved, I'll avoid possible head hits.
That's what I do.
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02-02-2011, 07:06 PM
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02-02-2011, 07:07 PM
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02-02-2011, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by hdracer Snare-Hat side, what ever side that is for the drummer. | This. For most genres, the snare/hat keeps the steadiest pattern, and I don't want to depend on the monitor mix to hear it.
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02-02-2011, 07:13 PM
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Web Developer, Agbb, emass.com.ar | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina | | | and what about playing with in-ears or any other good monitor with a proper mix?
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02-02-2011, 07:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ottawa | | | either side for me. done both. right now the drummer is on my right.
We use Aviom in-ear, so I can mix the drums how I want
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02-02-2011, 07:27 PM
| | Temp Banned (TOS Violation) | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Stouffville, Ontario | | | Doesn't matter but I find it somewhat easier to be on the right side of the drummer. I can see the drummer that way.
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02-02-2011, 08:46 PM
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Web Developer, Agbb, emass.com.ar | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina | | | nice thought for a doublebassman, i haven't thought it that way, vertically is more visible though
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02-03-2011, 12:54 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | Hi-hat side for me whenever possible.
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02-03-2011, 04:48 AM
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02-03-2011, 05:00 AM
| | | My band takes the position of the Police: guitarist on snare/hi-hat side, me on tom/cymbal side. I'm bassist and lead singer. If I'm not mistaken, Cream did the same thing. Jack Bruce being where I am. The only down side to this set up is that the Drummer is often looking over the other side of the drums often, but typically, as long as he knows his stuff, and knows to look at me for some of the cues, it's all good.
And often, he fills so often when we're in parts of a song with no vocals, that he's looking over the toms and cymbals anyway! 
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02-03-2011, 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Exploiter8 I'm right -handed. Yes, I usually look at my neck while I play. I like the drummer to be at my left, that way people think I'm looking/locking in with him! Plus, if there is a wall involved, I'll avoid possible head hits.
That's what I do.
X8 | That's two very good reasons for me to switch sides.
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02-03-2011, 06:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Perth, WA, Australia | | | Doesn't matter/don't care; as long as I can hear what he's doing with the kick I'm happy...
Only my opinion, but if you have to *watch* a drummer, rather than just listen to him/her, in order to lock in then there's something wrong with the stage balance.
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02-03-2011, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by agbb.cg nice thought for a doublebassman, i haven't thought it that way, vertically is more visible though | No no, I was saying if I' m playing electric bass. 
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02-03-2011, 09:57 PM
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02-03-2011, 10:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: MD | | | Hi-hat side, definitely.
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02-03-2011, 11:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson,AZ | | | I prefer to be to the right of the drummer (stage right).
This due to the fact that I play lefthanded and when I really start grooving I tend to play with my eyes closed, so invariably if I'm stage left I end up pranging someone in the head with my headstock.
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02-04-2011, 07:29 AM
| | | | I'm usually left of the drummer looking out on the audience, but I have played on the right. To the left is just how the stage usually turns out to be set up.. and i think i prefer it on that side. For the sake of seeing when the drummer is hitting the bass | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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