Poll: 96% Of Bands Looking For Slightly Better Drummer

Etchbass · #1 03-23-2012, 12:32 AM

96% Of Bands Looking For Slightly Better Drummer

BluesProgMetal · #2 03-23-2012, 12:38 AM

Drummers will be drummers. I am 100% wanting to find a new one

Duckwater · #3 03-23-2012, 12:44 AM

I'm lucky that the first drummer I found was perfect for me and most of the music I play. I've played with a few others since and they seem to be more concerned with playing fills every chance they get than keeping good rhythm and making the band sound good.

bassgod0dmw · #4 03-23-2012, 03:58 AM

Both of my long term bands were formed with excellent drummers. I've never wanted to look for one.

bongomania · #5 03-23-2012, 04:39 AM

As a drummer myself I still think that's funny.

And who was it, Winton Marsalis maybe, who said "it takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all".

Etchbass · #6 03-23-2012, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by bassgod0dmw

Both of my long term bands were formed with excellent drummers. I've never wanted to look for one.

Mine too, I still think that article is funny!

lomo · #7 03-23-2012, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by bongomania

As a drummer myself I still think that's funny.

And who was it, Winton Marsalis maybe, who said "it takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all".

I think it was Chet Baker.

FWIW I'd love a better drummer, not because I'm better than him, but because I wish I played with a drummer who was much better than I, in order to make me reach more.

pasta4lnch · #8 03-23-2012, 06:15 AM

The drummer in the band I play with most is insanely good! In fact I've been ruined...I think most others lack now

Seriously, I've been fortunate to only have a few unbearable situations. Most have been solid.

treekiller · #9 03-23-2012, 06:27 AM

I'm friends with the drummer from my former band, I would need to search a long time to find another drummer half as good!!! I guess that makes me a 4-percenter???

RustyAxe · #10 03-23-2012, 08:07 AM

I've been playing with a country band, and our current drummer is excellent ... and humble. But before that we went through a string of losers for about six months. When "Ken" played his first gig with us we locked in tight from the first downbeat. During the first break I told the band leader, "Hire this guy". We gave him two or three more gigs with us, to be sure there wasn't some sort of aberrant personality lurking behind his kind and friendly demeanor. He soon proved himself to be "one of us" ... we're glad we have him!

plankspanker13 · #11 03-23-2012, 08:40 AM

The cream does indeed rise to the top. I am fortunate to have worked with drummers whom I can lock with, and still be allowed some creative space. In fact, many of the drummers that I have worked with the most, over the years, also sing, so maybe that's part of the whole giving me some creative space deal.

Steve · #12 03-23-2012, 10:39 AM

100% of us should be looking for better players to play with.

100% of us should be looking to be better players ourselves.

imho

**TinIndian** · #13 03-23-2012, 11:16 AM

It would be extremely difficult to replace our existing drummer. It's his band! As in he formed it and has kept it going in several iterations for the last 5 years.

RichardCranium · #14 03-23-2012, 11:29 AM

Count me in I would love to replace my drummer for a myriad of reasons but we're stuck with him for the time being. Tough when the one that carries his weight the least is totally clueless about it.

powderfinger · #15 03-23-2012, 11:58 AM

I know at least 96% of bands looking for a drummer who isn't a caveman or a drunk.

**bassybill** · #16 03-23-2012, 12:20 PM

I play with at least 7 different drummers - three of them are, imo, superb; three more are very good; one is just okayish on drums, but an excellent conga player/percussionist. I guess that makes me pretty lucky.

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powderfinger · #18 03-23-2012, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by bassybill

I play with at least 7 different drummers - three of them are, imo, superb; three more are very good; one is just okayish on drums, but an excellent conga player/percussionist. I guess that makes me pretty lucky.

7 drummers? Who do you play with, Paul Simon?

Mo'Phat · #19 03-23-2012, 02:57 PM

My only issue with my current drummer is that he has discovered Garageband on his iPhone. Now, praise the lord, he is able to write guitar, bass AND drum parts and bring them to the band as completed songs.

Yet, he is a drummer. His bass lines and guitar parts are the chaff I edited out of my repertoire when I was a beginner.

The second I try to play it the way I think it should be played (ie: with nuance, feel, theory, and flow), he insists that the band learns the song as it's written first, then it can be embellished.

Well, it doesn't work that way...and I feel like I'm taking my direction from a machine.

Still, great drummer, though. I'm not knocking his initiative.

Big Brother · #20 03-23-2012, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by powderfinger

7 drummers? Who do you play with, Paul Simon?

Maybe the Doobie Brothers