I had a lead guitarist in my band for a year. He's self-obsessed to a mind-boggling level. He's also kind and thoughtful, giving him two extremes.
His breaks are samey. All he wants to do is play as many notes as he can as fast as he can. He's been told many times that his notes don't always fit the chords, but his answer is 'What do you mean?' It doesn't help that he won't learn anything. Every break is made up there and then. He doesn’t 'want to learn open chords'. He won't learn where any of the notes are. Ask him which barre chords he's playing, and he will say 'I don't know'.
We went through a phase, when he would play his shredding in every outro and keep going for seconds afterwards. He had to be told about it at every gig for weeks, before he stopped. The last time it happened, I told him 'You overshot the endings.' His answer was 'What do mean?'
I loaned him a battery amp for busking. I asked to borrow it back for one open mic. Only then did he tell me that he'd pawned it many times, and it was in the pawn shop that day.
I gave him the job of booking us gigs. He had to be told which venues to go to, every time and had to be reminded time and again. In all those months, he booked two. He didn't tell me about one of them for two months.
We had an agreed on a demo of our four strongest songs, two written by each of us and sung by the writer. He put two different songs on a national radio website, under his own name and only his songs. The rest of us got a credit as though we were his backing band.
I practice daily to jam tracks of our songs and sent him some without any guitar on, for his practising. He wouldn't use them, even though he was practising some of them wrong.
I asked him to learn a scale. He then left the band, saying that he couldn't work 'within the confines' of the band. I told him that he should have told about feeling confined. His answer was 'I don't feel confined'.
His breaks are samey. All he wants to do is play as many notes as he can as fast as he can. He's been told many times that his notes don't always fit the chords, but his answer is 'What do you mean?' It doesn't help that he won't learn anything. Every break is made up there and then. He doesn’t 'want to learn open chords'. He won't learn where any of the notes are. Ask him which barre chords he's playing, and he will say 'I don't know'.
We went through a phase, when he would play his shredding in every outro and keep going for seconds afterwards. He had to be told about it at every gig for weeks, before he stopped. The last time it happened, I told him 'You overshot the endings.' His answer was 'What do mean?'
I loaned him a battery amp for busking. I asked to borrow it back for one open mic. Only then did he tell me that he'd pawned it many times, and it was in the pawn shop that day.
I gave him the job of booking us gigs. He had to be told which venues to go to, every time and had to be reminded time and again. In all those months, he booked two. He didn't tell me about one of them for two months.
We had an agreed on a demo of our four strongest songs, two written by each of us and sung by the writer. He put two different songs on a national radio website, under his own name and only his songs. The rest of us got a credit as though we were his backing band.
I practice daily to jam tracks of our songs and sent him some without any guitar on, for his practising. He wouldn't use them, even though he was practising some of them wrong.
I asked him to learn a scale. He then left the band, saying that he couldn't work 'within the confines' of the band. I told him that he should have told about feeling confined. His answer was 'I don't feel confined'.
