Band problems Rant

[D.o.S.]

Oh, yeah, definitely don't use a drum loop in place of a real drummer. That's a recipe for disappointment, for sure.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

I started out on guitar when I was 16 and at 20 I fell in love with drums and also slightly knew that there was always more demand for drummers and bassists in my area and that's what I ended up playing more than anything. mainly drums. I'm so thankful I did.


drum loopers are poopers

[archlilim]

I taught myself to play drums a few years ago and it's the best. I think the only reason I play guitar is cuz I usually write the songs in the bands I'm in and it's harder for me to do that behind the kit. That and I love the gear/tone aspect of guitar so much. But the act of playing drums is so much more fun than guitar lol. I need to play drums in other people's bands.

[AxAxSxS]

fucking DSL 100.........

[maggot]

I like the gear/tone aspect of drums, too. Expensive, but snares are so cool, and ride cymbals are like the fuzzboxes of percussion, especially if you can afford/somehow get hold of the good stuff.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I like the gear/tone aspect of drums, too. Expensive, but snares are so cool, and ride cymbals are like the fuzzboxes of percussion, especially if you can afford/somehow get hold of the good stuff.

I concur.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

I love playing and the tone of drums. but once I've achieved the tone I wanted I don't have any desire to branch out or try anything different cause well I have only one tone I enjoy and like punch through everything I've been playing in. I only change cymbals when they break. And all I liked doing was adding more cymbals, not just replacing one with another just cause.

more of your tone and what people are listening for comes from your playing. not your gear in drums. i state that from not only my years of behind the kit, but with the years of talking with tons of other drummers, and the compliments I've gotten from non-drummers.

gear in guitar has always been more interesting to me. I like having an opportunity to change up my sound cause i'm a shitty guitarist.

[archlilim]

I love playing and the tone of drums. but once I've achieved the tone I wanted I don't have any desire to branch out or try anything different cause well I have only one tone I enjoy and like punch through everything I've been playing in. I only change cymbals when they break. And all I liked doing was adding more cymbals, not just replacing one with another just cause.

more of your tone and what people are listening for comes from your playing. not your gear in drums. i state that from not only my years of behind the kit, but with the years of talking with tons of other drummers, and the compliments I've gotten from non-drummers.

gear in guitar has always been more interesting to me. I like having an opportunity to change up my sound cause i'm a shitty guitarist.

Same.

[maggot]

I love playing and the tone of drums. but once I've achieved the tone I wanted I don't have any desire to branch out or try anything different cause well I have only one tone I enjoy and like punch through everything I've been playing in. I only change cymbals when they break. And all I liked doing was adding more cymbals, not just replacing one with another just cause.

more of your tone and what people are listening for comes from your playing. not your gear in drums. i state that from not only my years of behind the kit, but with the years of talking with tons of other drummers, and the compliments I've gotten from non-drummers.

gear in guitar has always been more interesting to me. I like having an opportunity to change up my sound cause i'm a shitty guitarist.

Maybe it's different since I'm a shitty drummer and a good guitarist.

Until recently when I started tuning to C and using more time & mod FX, my attitude toward guitar equipment was that I could plug any guitar into any amp and pretty much sound like me. That's changed somewhat, but I kinda know what my bottom line as a guitar player is and I have a pretty distinctive style and even given the huge variety of equipment available, there's only so much that gear is gonna do. Plug me into a Meat Smoke with 10 fuzzes in series, and, if I'm not feeding back uncontrollably (gates, gates and more gates!), it's still pretty much gonna sound like me.

Conversely, Neil Young used to talk about how when he played with Stephen Stills he'd play with his tweed deluxe and Stills would get larger and larger stacks and still not be able to keep up. Granted, that was in the early days of big PAs and Neil was probably slipping the sound guy $50. But I saw a pretty good doom band a couple of weeks ago opening for Caltrop in a small, crowded room, and the guitar player had 2 Marshall half stacks (which I realize is nothing for some of y'all) and you couldn't really hear him in the room. I'm pretty confident that I could have showed up with my Pro Tube 30, put it on a chair and been heard pretty clearly. It wouldn't have been ideal and it wouldn't have sounded big, but you would have heard it, and when you heard it with the bass, it wouldn't have necessarily sounded small.

As a shitty beginning drummer it's certainly fun to explore the differences between different pieces of equipment. But I was just figuring out what I liked. And if a drummer doesn't hit the snare right it'll sound like crap, no matter.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Yea that's true because hell the drummer is crap.

Actually with the gear in guitar... the gear actually inspires me to play different things or play differently. drums... drums are always drums and I am only inspired to play certain ways dependent on the music I am writing to and maybe some drummers I was listening to before I do.

[maggot]

That's probably true. I mean you could hit cymbals and toms just a little differently based on how they sustain, but it's nothing like plugging your guitar into a box and then having infinite sustain, just for an example.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Yea I get what you are putting down.