more noodles than a ramen store!

[micguy]

I play a lot of songs where I don't come in for the first verse, or verse and a chorus, etc... Part of me wants to keep track of where I am in the song, so I sometimes "play along" through that part, but....with the volume control turned off on my instrument. It's a silent "noodle", and even at that I'm playing the part I would be if I was in at that point. There, Ive said it; I'm a silent/closet noodlist.

Anyway, my first comment to an actual noodler would be "they're paying us by the hour, not the note" and see if he got the hint. The gigs I play, if you noodled, you wouldn't be asked back - noodling in a church service is just not done. We're there to create a mood, and noodling is not a technique that does that. While a bar band isn't exactly the same, you are there to create a mood (it's a different mood, but it's a mood), and again, noodling ain't a technique that'll ever help.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

The answer to 90% of the band member issues posted here is - talk to the person.

 

[7615]

Say it once - and then if ignored - give up. Trying to get others to do anything is a waste of time. If they are reasonable they will stop or engage rationally why (Insert whatever bothers you) is good.

 

[edencab]

during rehearsals you could always noodle/step all over his solos or intros , wait for the stink eye and say "Whut?"

 

[Jehos]

I noodle on stage sometimes, but I have the common decency to step on my tuner switch first.

 

[Oddly]

Low points of their shows - when they start talking. Music is ruined by talking - music is abstract art at its best - whereas talking just drags it down to precise and mundane. Shut up and play your guitar. Talking establishes who the talker is - mystery all gone. Talking is amateur only enjoyed by fandom - time wasted where a song might be played. Live records with talking - second time fast forward. Dan Hicks had the only line I ever enjoyed- This next song is about ... 3 minutes long.

You clearly take your music way more seriously than I do...

 

[sqlb3rn]

Snip his guitar cable with some wire cutters... that otta piss him off.

 

[Jehos]

Throw frozen meatballs at him...

Or dump a jar of sauce on him.

 

[bearhart74]

 

[pablomago]

Turn to the guitarist and say to him in your loudest most threatening voice, "Can you just shut the f*** up while we get things dialed in? Thank you very much."

Always say thank you. It shows that you care.

 

[Sixgunn]

Low points of their shows - when they start talking. Music is ruined by talking - music is abstract art at its best - whereas talking just drags it down to precise and mundane. Shut up and play your guitar. Talking establishes who the talker is - mystery all gone. Talking is amateur only enjoyed by fandom - time wasted where a song might be played. Live records with talking - second time fast forward. Dan Hicks had the only line I ever enjoyed- This next song is about ... 3 minutes long.

I believe you're in the minority on this subject.

 

[Oddly]

Turn to the guitarist and say to him in your loudest most threatening voice, "Can you just shut the f*** up while we get things dialed in? Thank you very much."

Always say thank you. It shows that you care.

Best answer here.
It's always worked for me.

 

[levis76]

Time to start dishing out noodle slaps.

Speaking of noodle slap,

Reminded me of a young band a few years back imitating the Mudvayne sound, loud rhythm guitar and out front bass tone with a lot of gratuitous slaps and pops. It was hard to tell when one song ended and another began, the bassist never really stopped. Pity too, they had some decent songs.

Couldn’t an IEM setup be utilized to allow the noodler to hear himself without driving everyone else nuts? Might be easier to figure out how to work with them than to keep kicking otherwise good players out of the band.

 

[kesslari]

If you've muted yourself, you're not noodling in the sense described here. You're displaying an awareness of how you impact the world around you, rather than being cluelessly oblivious.

 

[Paulabass]

I got noodlers. My noodlers noodle the next song in the set. Almost every time they noodle around on the notes or chords of the song we are about to play. Song Broadcast Noodlers are the worst.

God yes! A nice song that comes on strong off the count, and the surprise is gone cause the noodler already played half of it.

 

[edencab]

I got noodlers. My noodlers noodle the next song in the set. Almost every time they noodle around on the notes or chords of the song we are about to play. Song Broadcast Noodlers are the worst.

 

[7615]

I believe you're in the minority on this subject.

Always a good place to be. Bandwagon logic never holds sway with me. This is a thread about noodling... what is yacking - verbal noodling.

 

[Sixgunn]

Always a good place to be. Bandwagon logic never holds sway with me. This is a thread about noodling... what is yacking - verbal noodling.

Fettucine! Radiatore! Mostaccioli!

 

[sqlb3rn]

I just stumbled into a whole bowl of noodles here. Is that Billy Sheehan and Steve Vai? lol...

0:45 hey bro could you shut the .... up for like 2 min plz, we're tryin to do somethin.