Dad3353

Readers of Rolling Stone that would put Meg White above Joe Morello in a graded list of drummers..? It's a rum ol' world alright, but still...

Fixed.

That's OK, as long as he gets a receipt, with VAT. ...

Must be different in France, then. We were registered as an association, just like the local tennis club, a music school and the organising of our local music festivals. All declared as 'non-profit' associations.

We did all of that; there are templates for most of it on line, and it all worked well for several years. There was no, or very little, cost involved. How do your local football or tennis clubs work..? It should be similar, I'd have thought.

Not sure about the UK, but, in France, it's easy enough for a local Association (table tennis, footie team, Am-Dram society etc...) to have a bank account. It needs only three designated members (President, Secretary, Treasurer...) and have meetings with Members. Our band (Kiemsa...) used this for the whole of its existence, with official 'meetings' every three years, to vote in the statuary roles, above. It works very well, for very little, or no, cost, and has advantages when contacting other Administrations, such as Town Halls and the like.

A drummer speeding up or slowing down during the song is not the same issue as setting the tempo for the band at the start (clashing the drumsticks as a 'click', whilst shouting out '1-2-3-4' for a 4/4 song ('1-2-3' for a 3/4 song etc...). Once this tempo has been declared, every player is expected to adhere to this tempo, assuming no tempo change in the composition itself. It doesn't have to be the drummer, as long as there's someone else with a pair of sticks to clash and a loud voice.

Word.

Welcome to the First World. ...

The British Association of Anger Management ...

I sincerely hope for your health and safety's sake that your bandmate drummer has a lot more patience and restraint than I. A pedagogic approach of this nature would, at a minimum, be met by me with a deft drumstick through the offending metronome, and a fair few Anglo-Saxon words and phrases that would make my displeasure clear to all around. Still, if it works for you both...

Have you an alarm clock..? ...