When You're lucky, it's as simple as going to clubs, asking the musicians to join Your group after their show.
And when You're not lucky, You may have to wait for years and settle down for substitute drum machines and samplers or something. Sometimes hard work pays.
Long ago, we came up with this bass guitars oriented band (originally a trio, bass+bass+drums) and we had really with finding keyboard players... we had hands full with eager solo guitarists joining, guys who wanted to really, really express their deepest inmost hidden meanings (emotionally fucked up) and/or impress the audience with their technical awesomeness (wannabes, didn't put up with them too good). But no drummers or synth players.
I remember we stalked and talked with the first one over and over again, for nearly six months as we had to impress her plus talk her over to sell her old gear she played with at home and buy new gear for the band use. She ended up to leave from behind the keyboard after all and step in the singers shoes. And for the second keyboard player I had to first convince her and orate a dozen pep talks and THEN teach her everything about the difference between the piano and the synths. Like, two weeks before a gig, while our drummer, too, was missing (luckily, he ended up alive though he hoped he wasn't, for the hang over, only days before the show). The third was headhunted, along with a rehearsal place, for a good six months. And he turned out to suck, after all, dispite the impressive gear and a long background in music. The fourth one was a genuine talent but far too busy and the fifth was a keeper - a girl who played drums for a punk band - that plays with the band even today.
And the drummers... if You can't attract them from other bands gigs, I really don't know what to do... they seem to be either busy with playing in all the wrong bands, if they're not mythical creatures one only reads about. Or they go missing for weeks without warning.
