With every 3 steps forward I feel we take a turn sideways.
I realize we need to stop spending times working on covers and start with original material but I feel like this is going to take forever, I know you can't just "get" jamming with someone down in a month but I really wish there was a way to get inside someones head and figure out what will make things work for them.
What I miss most about my old band is we could play 1-2 hours just playing, no songs, no covers, just everyone playing their instrument(It took us 8 months to get to that point) and almost everything sounds just awesome.
With my new band it seems we're still not their yet, I'm trying to practice more things his style he plays more bluegrass than my previous guitarist so that's a bit different but he is familiar with most playing styles because he listens to every genre of music and discovers more music everyday.
Does anyone have any tricks to learning someones jab? I just want to speed up the "getting to know you" process as much as possible so we can sound like more compatible players.
A big strike for me I feel is we still haven't found a singer and singing helps me feel the mood of new songs and really makes it easier to do the switch ups.
Another issue is our drummer is involved in multiple project and wants to add in his piece from hom after we got our dual bass/guitar down so he doesn't have to spend money on travel until we have an actual setlist to play. I respect that because no one wants to drive an hour only to "try" and have a circle jerk session with no product at the end. He wants songs to be put together professionally, and recorded so we all have something to practice with on our free time so we can cut face down to minimum, something I am in complete agreement with. Luckily our drummer has all the pro tools to make those sample recordings happen.
Right now I have 4-5 originals plus 6 covers we are practicing, the originals are no where near started and our covers still need timing work. I have another guitarist I want to get on board but I didn't want to start practicing with him until the core trio can play together.
Does anyone have and tips or tricks they use to help themselves "get in" the music?
Some things we tried was using an audio metronome, playing covers to the CD player, and sticking to overly simple bass riffs just to get something sounding clean.
I also tried other things like going out for coffee and discussing what we want to achieve that day(this helped a lot, as we got 3 covers down in one day as opposed to switching 8-9 songs half assedly)
I'm also looking into having a band schedule "agenda" meaning every week we have a day to work on covers, then another week to work on originals etc etc
I'll admit the guitarist isn't experience in playing with people, more particular bass players and he's never been in a band before. But I know he's willing to put in the work, he trusts my decisions and is willing to "go with the flow" of my way of doing things which I'm happy he has the patience for because I am new to being bandleader... huh I should have called this "Band leading Tips"
I realize we need to stop spending times working on covers and start with original material but I feel like this is going to take forever, I know you can't just "get" jamming with someone down in a month but I really wish there was a way to get inside someones head and figure out what will make things work for them.
What I miss most about my old band is we could play 1-2 hours just playing, no songs, no covers, just everyone playing their instrument(It took us 8 months to get to that point) and almost everything sounds just awesome.
With my new band it seems we're still not their yet, I'm trying to practice more things his style he plays more bluegrass than my previous guitarist so that's a bit different but he is familiar with most playing styles because he listens to every genre of music and discovers more music everyday.
Does anyone have any tricks to learning someones jab? I just want to speed up the "getting to know you" process as much as possible so we can sound like more compatible players.
A big strike for me I feel is we still haven't found a singer and singing helps me feel the mood of new songs and really makes it easier to do the switch ups.
Another issue is our drummer is involved in multiple project and wants to add in his piece from hom after we got our dual bass/guitar down so he doesn't have to spend money on travel until we have an actual setlist to play. I respect that because no one wants to drive an hour only to "try" and have a circle jerk session with no product at the end. He wants songs to be put together professionally, and recorded so we all have something to practice with on our free time so we can cut face down to minimum, something I am in complete agreement with. Luckily our drummer has all the pro tools to make those sample recordings happen.
Right now I have 4-5 originals plus 6 covers we are practicing, the originals are no where near started and our covers still need timing work. I have another guitarist I want to get on board but I didn't want to start practicing with him until the core trio can play together.
Does anyone have and tips or tricks they use to help themselves "get in" the music?
Some things we tried was using an audio metronome, playing covers to the CD player, and sticking to overly simple bass riffs just to get something sounding clean.
I also tried other things like going out for coffee and discussing what we want to achieve that day(this helped a lot, as we got 3 covers down in one day as opposed to switching 8-9 songs half assedly)
I'm also looking into having a band schedule "agenda" meaning every week we have a day to work on covers, then another week to work on originals etc etc
I'll admit the guitarist isn't experience in playing with people, more particular bass players and he's never been in a band before. But I know he's willing to put in the work, he trusts my decisions and is willing to "go with the flow" of my way of doing things which I'm happy he has the patience for because I am new to being bandleader... huh I should have called this "Band leading Tips"
