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TrombonistDon
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Posted: 2007-05-14 23:24 CEST | |
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I'm pretty sure many of the users of this website either have been or currently are in a band of some type. I thought that it would be a good idea to have a thread talking about problems bands go through and getting advice from other users that way (I don't know if there is already a thread like this and I'm honestly too lazy to go check) so I'll start out with a ? With ska bands, there's usually many people that have to meet together for a practice. My band has trouble getting a time worked out that everyone can come to. Anyone have any practice-scheduling tips??? 
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Sander
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Posted: 2007-05-16 10:06 CEST | |
| The band I play in practices every wednesday evening, and no one even thinks of planning other things on wednesday evenings... | ||
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skajunkie
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Posted: 2007-06-06 04:44 CEST | |
| is this open to discussing other problems? ...what about ideas in writing songs? ...do you guys make things unanomous or is it ll compromise stuff? ... | ||
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TrombonistDon
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Posted: 2007-06-06 21:49 CEST | |
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Yeah this thread was intended for any band-related problems for song writing, the only thing my band has done is have anyone that wants to write a song do it on their own time and teach it to the rest of us later. But I have a feeling it would be better to write as a group, if all of you have the interest. 
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Jynx493
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Posted: 2007-07-04 17:23 CEST | |
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My band isn't really ska, but we have about 3 ska songs. We don't have any problems getting together, even though someone decides oh practice tomorrow. Usually we can all make it, and wont pracitce otherwise. Especially if that person is the lead guitarist. Unfortunatly I get the end of the stick being the keyboard player. I only wrote one song for our band and the public thinks it's the best, but our gutarist writes songs and that's it. So he doesn't practice playing the guitar he just writes songs, I on the other hand practice the piano 1hr a day. I still don't like being considered last because I'm the keyboard player. When he writes songs, he'll write every part but mine and that doesn't make me happy.  ... The only other problem is out guitarist also likes to add random ass effects during songs that once sounded good, but do to his fx peddle sounds shitty, so he needs to stop screwing around.problems, problems, problems. |
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Gremlin
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Posted: 2007-07-07 10:36 CEST | |
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this i kind of a side note, but ive noticed that a lot of bigger bands ushually have one or 2 writers(ex. Aaron from reel big fish and Tomas from Streetlight) i kno in a band i was in we had 3 guys who would get together and write all the music, then our singer would write the lyrics off of that.
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TrombonistDon
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Posted: 2007-07-08 23:27 CEST | |
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My band can't write lyrics. It sucks becasue we are all really good with music, but none of us are the least bit poetic. And there just isn't much demand for instrumental bands these days... |
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Savage
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Posted: 2007-07-10 19:12 CEST | |
| I've found the best way to write a song is to just have everyone do their own part, and feel what they're doing. Start off with a drum or bass line, add a chord progression, let each horn take a solo, let some lyrics come out, just jam a song out, and remember what was good. The best songs come out that way. That being said, I've written some songs solo (on sax and finale), I usually write with my guitar player, and we let the drummer and singer make their own part up later. It works alright, but the singer got bored of writing lyrics, so we do that now too. The best people to have there when writing would probably be the guitar player, the horn with the most musical knowledge, the singer (who may be the guitar player), and possibly the drummer. | ||