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It always happens. You are practicing with your band in the garage and something just does not jive. You have not one clue why things are not following the groove you feel in your bones. You decide to get out the old cassette recorder to see if you can identify the problem. And when you listen to a playback of a song you hear nothing but a dummer gone crazy and a bass player trying to keep up.
Nothing detracts from live music more than a drummer that has something to prove. Drummers are without a doubt the strangest musicians on the planet. They are always in their own little world. You would be too if all you heard in your head all day is splash, boom, pop, pop, crash. It is simple to point out to a guitar or keyboard player that a certain lick does not fit, or they are using the wrong progression on a song. But you have no basis as far as keys or scales when talking to drummer. Everything comes from his heart. And as much as that is a good thing, it is hard to get the drummer to play with his ears and heart rather than his ego and his head. A drummer is always to the rear of the band and feels somewhat slighted. I had a drummer once who threw fits about stage lighting and his spotlight. In order to get their fair share of attention they sometimes overplay. Well, most always they overplay. And they are not alone.
Right up there on stage is another frustrated musician. The bass player is sometimes a frustrated guitar player. He often feels no one is paying attention to his talents. And as drummers and bass players play off one another on stage, they seem to drive themselves to a point where the dynamics of the song has been lost or at least put aside while they show the crowd that they deserve some love also. But there is hope.
First, when learning a song always start with the basic tempo. Do no add or flourish, just play the song as simply as possible. Make sure the drummer and bass player know that they are the backbone of the group and that everything hinges around the rhythm section. Keep it very simple. Over and over and over, till everyone has it down. Then and only then add some spice. But always hold your ace card which is you saying, "I like it better here with just simple rhythm." And there is always a way to keep these guys happy.
When it comes time to audition a drummer and or bass player, make sure they can sing. And I do not just mean backup. If a drummer can sing lead and you are having problems with him overplaying a tune, pull out the recorder and play the song in the manner he has been playing. Then have him sing lead and play at the same time. You and he will both notice that while he is singing lead he has taken his drums down to a simple level. After listening you will both agree that as always in music, less is more. Plus if a drummer and bass player can sing, they will always come up with songs so they can share the spotlight as well.
Remember in music that the best musicians do not play every chop they know in every song. It is what they are not playing that makes the music count, just as much as what they are playing.
Roy Gene Horne is a songwriter, musician, performer with over 30 years professional experience. He has written hundreds of songs, recorded, performed, booked, managed, and fronted his own band for all of those years. He is the founder of Rock-a-Billy Academy, a one of a kind resource teaching the music business to musicians and bands. http://www.rockabillyacademy.com
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Crossed Bones $7.99 In rich, atmospheric mysteries set against the backdrop of modern-day Mississippi, Carolyn Haines has given the southern belle a brilliantly hip makeover. Now Haines and her unforgettable heroine, Sarah Booth Delaney, are back with a tale about skeletons in closets--and elsewhere. Crossed Bones Sarah Booth Delaney is no ordinary P.I. A born-and-bred Mississippi belle, she struggles to hold on to her family’s plantation and keeps up a running conversation with the ghost of her great-great-grandmother’s nanny, a busybody who decks herself out in a stunning new outfit every day--and schemes to save Sarah Booth from spinsterhood. Not one to wait around for a white knight, Sarah takes on the kind of cases no one else will touch. Like trying to exonerate a man accused of murdering Sunflower County’s most popular musician. The two men met in prison: Ivory Keys, a gifted black blues pianist, and Scott Hampton, a rich white boy turned racist. Somewhere between the two men, a spark was lit. And by the time he came out of the joint, Scott Hampton had not only renounced his racist ways, he had learned to play a blues guitar that made grown women go weak in the knees. So why did Scott plunge a steel shank into his mentor’s chest? Ivory’s widow doesn’t think he did, and she’s paid Sarah Booth to prove it. No easy task, especially since the delicate racial harmony of Sunflower County is threatening to come undone under the heat of Sarah Booth’s investigation. For a woman feeling a little heat of her own--navigating between a rich, available businessman, a married lawman with a waffling heart, and the sexy bluesman who is angling to become much more than her client--this case is taking dangerous twists. A town’s slumbering passions have awakened with a jolt, a matchmaking ghost is dressed up like Jackie O, and Sarah Booth is caught between her need to know the truth and the consequences it will have on her town--and on her life. With riveting suspense and a sparkling cast of unforgettable characters, Carolyn Haines has woven a rich portrait of a part of America grappling with its past, its illusions, and its hopes. Crossed Bones is the most dazzling work yet from a uniquely gifted writer. From the Hardcover edition. |
