How do you feel about......

[Lance Bunyon]

New arrangements are fine, just as long as everyone in the band plays the SAME chord inversion (or different chord).

 

[2thAche]

Straight riffs, I bring it up. (Stuff thats just noodling in the right key signature, doesn't matter) This leads to pulling the song up on Spotify, which usually clears things up. We play one song ATM where guitar stuck to what he plays, and I need to decide if I play the riff correctly, or just play what the guitar is playing.

I play it correctly, figuring if there's a musician in the audience who cares, I just don't want to look like the guy who doesn't realize he's playing it wrong.

I grew up playing cello in orchestra where playing something incorrectly wasn't an option, I can't shake it

 

[Bonafide]

Maybe she was playing 'We Are Extended Family"...the 2nd cousin by marriage version.

 

[DWBass]

If an adaption worked, I wouldn't worry too much about it, but if they couldn't hear it clash, that would concern me more that the wrong chord itself.

No where near the right chord. Not even an inversion of the right chord. Something different altogether. It totally clashed!

 

[DWBass]

You mean to tell me that the keyboardist has been playing the wrong notes all this time and none of her band mates have pointed it out to her in all this time and here comes an outsider and points out the problem almost immediately...
Who's "ego and laziness" are we discussing here; hers or the rest of the bands?
No wonder she got annoyed and probably a little embarrassed too.

I guess she learned a lesson! Don't be lazy. She could have gone to Youtube and gotten the chords easily! My honest opinion? Amateurs, like her, do not belong on any stage. Problem is the gig was already booked and I'm the bail out bassist. Gotta take pride in your craft! She won't get a second chance with me. I'm doing this gig and then I'm out.

 

[BAG]

I'm definitely not one to insist on covers being played exactly as they were written or originally played.
If an interpretation sounds good then it is good, but if I hear some dissonance then I'll try to find out what it is and correct it.

 

[P. Aaron]

.....musicians that can't or don't hear they are playing something wrong??? I was at a band rehearsal (not my regular band) and we were playing We Are Family by Sister Sledge. What are the 4 chords being played during the chorus?? Very simple. The chords are A to a G to a D natural to a G7 sus2 sus4 over a G. On the second chord, the keyboard player kept playing some weird chord and trying to justify it. Annoyed the heck outta me!! I turned to the guitar player and asked him what he was playing. He played the correct chords. I turned to her and said 'can you please play the G. She copped an attitude and changed it on her notation.

I'm not understanding how folks can be musicians and not HEAR wrong notes or chords?? If I said nothing, she would have been happy to continue playing the incorrect chord!! SMDH!! I just don't get it!

We Are Family, if done mostly right would mean playing it cleanly and with very little color besides the foundation offered. One just prays the singers are on it because they ARE the song.

In rock/pop/country music, there's leeway for some personal interpretation but like any other pop music realm, there are some songs you just don't mess too much with UNLESS the band is purposefully nuking the original arrangement from orbit and redoing it as their own. Here & there that can work too if used sparingly.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

The guitar player in my band has a pat answer for everything he plays (in my opinion) wrong. " Well that's the way I play it". As much as this drives me crazy nobody else in the band will call him on it.

.....musicians that can't or don't hear they are playing something wrong??? I was at a band rehearsal (not my regular band) and we were playing We Are Family by Sister Sledge. What are the 4 chords being played during the chorus?? Very simple. The chords are A to a G to a D natural to a G7 sus2 sus4 over a G. On the second chord, the keyboard player kept playing some weird chord and trying to justify it. Annoyed the heck outta me!! I turned to the guitar player and asked him what he was playing. He played the correct chords. I turned to her and said 'can you please play the G. She copped an attitude and changed it on her notation.

I'm not understanding how folks can be musicians and not HEAR wrong notes or chords?? If I said nothing, she would have been happy to continue playing the incorrect chord!! SMDH!! I just don't get it!

‘I’ve run into players that only pay attention to what they are playing, and have no clue about chord structure

I’m pretty big on recording and reviewing what is being played, and when musical conflicts arise, sometimes a shared recording is worth a thousand words.

 

[coy garcia]

Yeah man. Finding keyboardist that don't step on the bass or the chord is rare. I recently got one in my blues band and besides the first gig it's been awesome. Of course he's an old timer (experienced). Other keyboardist we've had to let know it won't work out.

 

[P. Aaron]

There are bad chord charts and bad tabs out there. Maybe they've "learned" on those? If something sounds "off", I'll suggest that we check out the original recording. But I'm not "that guy" for every transgression. Sometimes you just have to let it roll.

That's my other peeve; players that use tab or charts from their favorite internet site and not referring once to the recorded song the charts/tab was drawn from for accuracy.

Are the tabs/charts correct? Are they close? Anyone listen to the recording to check the accuracy of the charts/tab?

My ears are my best tool to decipher the music I'm supposed to learn. I'm pretty good at it and am always double checking as the song developed at rehearsal and over time. If the song is accurately notated, even better.

Some folks I've worked with just use the tab/charts they got or (God forbid) chart it themselves without even a whack at playing along with the recording in question.

 

[Tim Skaggs]

.....musicians that can't or don't hear they are playing something wrong??? I was at a band rehearsal (not my regular band) and we were playing We Are Family by Sister Sledge. What are the 4 chords being played during the chorus?? Very simple. The chords are A to a G to a D natural to a G7 sus2 sus4 over a G. On the second chord, the keyboard player kept playing some weird chord and trying to justify it. Annoyed the heck outta me!! I turned to the guitar player and asked him what he was playing. He played the correct chords. I turned to her and said 'can you please play the G. She copped an attitude and changed it on her notation.

I'm not understanding how folks can be musicians and not HEAR wrong notes or chords?? If I said nothing, she would have been happy to continue playing the incorrect chord!! SMDH!! I just don't get it!

I’ve been in this circumstance so many times I can’t count it up and a few times I thought I was right when I was wrong. Just keep this in mind; if you and the guitarist were playing the WRONG chord and the keyboardist was playing the correct cord, the keyboardist would still sound like the one making the error. I don’t think that’s the case here, but sometimes you have to join the offending party to show them their chord is not correct. Sometimes you find their chord was correct….

 

[P. Aaron]

Yeah man. Finding keyboardist that don't step on the bass or the chord is rare. I recently got one in my blues band and besides the first gig it's been awesome. Of course he's an old timer (experienced). Other keyboardist we've had to let know it won't work out.

We once did a Motown show with a bunch of other bands. We were doing Jr. Walker's Shotgun and an B3 played sat in with us. She rode the lowest root note (Ab I think is where it's originally scored/recorded) in "release the hounds!" bowel movement territory. I just quit playing the song, it was so muddy, she walked all over it.

 

[DWBass]

It's a very simple song with simple chords. The chords are very present on the recording. How she did not 'HEAR' them (at least that particular chord) is beyond me! She 'learned' the verse section (A, Em7, D7) while at rehearsal. Again, it's an extremely simple song. I get really annoyed with musicians that don't do their homework! But then I'm stuck in musician purgatory playing with second rate musicians all the damn time. At least my main band is a lot better but every time I help a friend out, he or she's got these second/third rate musicians. I already committed to the gig so I'm just hoping we don't embarrass ourselves!

Is what it is. I'm not gonna fuss anymore. It's their reputation and if I'm asked about them, I'm gonna tell the truth.

 

[mrcbass]

How do I feel about it? It sucks. Pretty much in all cases diplomacy is required if you don't want to ruffle feathers. "Hey, I'm hearing XYZ there, what are you playing?" Typically it gets sorted out with out any hurt feelings. If I'm in a sub situation, I don't really care if they don't change and do what I can to sound good with what's going on.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I've had to teach the rhythm guitarist in a band I was in how to correctly play a couple of songs...

 

[perfektspace6]

I don't care if someone plays something that is not a carbon copy of the way the song has been previously played (originals). However, it has to sound good. I may feel differently on cover tunes but don't have the experience to comment.

 

[Captain Chaos]

I’m usually head banging so it’s hard to tell.

 

[Five or Six]

We were doing "Baby Blue" at a rehearsal a week ago. I've played with this lead / rhythm guitar player for years. All of a sudden in the bridge I hear this "something off" note. Finish the song and bring it up. I have him show me what he's playing. It's a freaking "L" cord I think and it sounded terrible. I asked the same of our other GP, he played the right cord.

We've only been playing the song for a couple of months (by request) and I knew something was whacked. I finally found it. He got pissy with me for a second. I told him to conform or I will dump the song. We played the song over with the right note(s) and it went well. He never said a word about it afterwards. If you are wrong, someone needs to grow a pair and point it out for cryin out loud! I don't care what instrument they play. Be big enough to take constructive criticism. This pertains to me as well.

 

[r_bnks]

Don't care about them. Got rid of them fast.

 

[RyanSaranich]

The chords are A to a G to a D natural to a G7 sus2 sus4 over a G.

That’s a really long way to write F/G!