Recent content by cabronazo_pr

Thank you for the suggestion. We hired him because he did well at auditions. He’s actually a very good drummer. He already knew most of the material we play. He just didn’t do his homework for the last two rehearsals, and got mad when held accountable. Others in the band noticed the same, but...

E-kits work well depending on the situation. They’re not ideal, but practical. In my experience, their biggest advantage has been volume control, especially in small venues. The ability to switch sounds quickly has been very useful as well. However, all of that comes with a tradeoff. I’ve heard...

I did this a while back with our previous drummer, but it was not well received, and no one ever watched them, so I stopped. It’s 12 songs — he already knew 10 before he joined the band, so that leaves 2 that are entirely new to him. Both songs are relatively easy pop songs. He just needs to...

That’s totally reasonable AND the right call. If you don’t know the song, be honest and let it be known that you don’t know it. The BL should understand and not insist on playing it anyway.

That’s fair. If someone doesn’t know a song that’s been thrown out of the blue, I would ask “Do you think you can work on it and have it ready for the next rehearsal?” That is assuming the next rehearsal is the following week, or in two weeks, or the following month. My expectations will be...

Really appreciate all the feedback and advice on this. It’s my first post in this forum. I didn’t think so many people would reply in such a short time. My apologies if the issues I asked about have been brought up earlier by other users. I’d be curious to learn how others -specifically bass...

That’s exactly what I wanted to communicate to them: rehearsal is not the time to learn material. I have been playing in cover bands for nearly 30 years, and that has always been how the people I’ve played with treat rehearsals. I don’t understand how that phrase can offend or make someone feel...

At this point, I think #3 would be the best option, unless I can figure out how to communicate without making others feel bad.

We showed him the entire repertoire during auditions. Out of the 60-something songs we have, he didn’t know 5 of them. The rest he already knew, and we played a lot of them at auditions. We’ll be playing for one hour at our next show, about 12 songs with some banter in between. He had to learn 2...

That’s what I tried to do at the last rehearsal but it was met with resistance. In the drummer’s defense, he nailed 10 out of the 12 songs we did at our last rehearsal. From the 2 he didn’t nail, one was missing a crucial part, and the other was a train wreck. I agree that speaking privately is...

This is what I tried to communicate at our last rehearsal, but another band member dismissed it as perfectionism, and took it to the extreme. A whole argument erupted over this because it was the same issue we had with our previous drummer. Others agreed with me, but chose to keep quiet.

Thanks — this is helpful, and I agree the core issue is structure. We don’t really have a clear band leader, and that’s likely why this keeps surfacing in rehearsals. I have asked the band members who agree with me to chime in as well, not only for the drummer but everyone in the band. I’m...

There’s a lot of details and context that I left out because I would like to focus on what I can control and not turn this discussion into a rant about the band. In this case, what I can control would be what I can say, how I say it, and (maybe) when I say it. To give some context, this is a...

This is not the case at all. The drummer knew most of the songs in our repertoire before he joined the band, and he’s done well in most of them. In those that he has not done well, I don’t expect him to play them note by note. All I ask is that he at least learn the structure of the song before...

That’s what I told him at our last rehearsal. At the rehearsal we had prior to this one, he was off in an entire song, and when I brought it up he said he didn’t have a chance to learn it properly and that he’ll have it ready for the next rehearsal. Next rehearsal came and he made the same...