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I always try to have a "riff" or phrase in my head, basically a melody that's the length of whatever the bar is. If I try to split it into sections, or count, I just make a mess of it. For example, I play drums on this track and I have no idea what the time signature is for the main riff EDIT: I'd love to know what timing this is in if anyone can tell me?

ace! Loving the funk sound clip as well

ace!

Hah, thanks

I doubt they'd be allowed left handed violins in orchestras, you'd be poking eyes out left and right!

It looks awesome! Nice one

Yewstock festival on Saturday on drums with Dandelion meow meow. It's always loads of fun with this band. The crowd was a little thin but a few were up dancing. Great sound on stage until the house-bass-amp blew. We had to cut our set short Deerstock yesterday on drums with Headsticks. Awesome sound on stage and it was going really well until they cut the sound as someone had collapsed

I'm sure they said that when I played with them over a year ago - I wonder if they just can't bring themselves to stop. Awesome band anyway

We're generally playing multi-band gigs so as the drummer it generally depends on what the soundman/promoter are forcing me to use, and how long it takes the previous guy to get off. If we're on our own I try to set up my kit while the front man clambers over me trying to put the backdrop up

I always loved his basslines and sound. I couldn't figure out how he got that weird tone until I realised he played an acoustic

There's a venue we've played at a few times, a very small room above a pub. They always promise there will be a sound engineer and a PA but every time we turn up there's 2 knackered old speakers, a 4 channel desk, and one mic, stand and cable. We have to do the sound ourselves. If people turn up it's actually not a bad gig, but we really have to keep volume down so that you can hear the vocals which is very frustrating for me on drums. We all agreed we'd never do it again but I notice it's on the gigs list again for next year

Not sure about The Voicer. On our local musicians' facebook pages we've had loads of posts asking people to audition for X Factor which I've not seen before this year. Maybe there are less applicants

My busiest band is described as Folk-Punk but in my opinion we don't do any folk or any punk. I really don't get it but we do loads of gigs on the punk scene and go down well. I play in a band doing funky dance music with some provocative lyrics, we call that Disco-Punk Another band I play with is backing up a singer-songwriter doing kate-bush style prog-pop, then I play in what I would describe as a "stoner rock band" but some people have called it "desert rock". I play in another couple of pretty heavy bands I would describe as "prog metal" but they sound very different from each other. It's all original music and quite difficult to pin it down to labels people will understand but I just tell them to listen to some and see if they like it

Friday night supporting the Wildhearts, then Saturday night doing a local benefit gig our frontman organised for a friend of ours. Both brilliant gigs but I didn't play well as I was feeling rather ill. No-one else seemed to notice so who cares?! Me! I hate making mistakes.

I got back from Ireland last night. We did 3 nights, Friday in Dublin, Saturday in Dundalk, Sunday in Cork. It all went pretty well and was loads of fun but now I'm absolutely wiped out. I didn't expect it to be so tiring!

Check out my mate's project, it's ace! https://velocity-automated-astronomical-sonic-transmissions.bandcamp.com/

I just received a pedal only a couple of days after paying for it. Excellently packaged too. Brilliant chap!

Negativity on a gig night. beaching about various gripes with the band is fine, do it at rehearsal or a meeting, don't do it while I'm out trying to have a good time and DEFINITELY not while we're on stage you massive grumpy "£$£&%^*%&^

A friend of mine was diagnosed with a form of arthritis, I can't remember the name, but it made it impossible for her to play piano or guitar. The NHS tried all sorts. She found some research suggesting a particularly weird died of nothing but raw fruit and veg, avoiding anything particularly acidic, and it's totally worked for her. It sounds like pseudo science BS to me but I can't deny that it worked All the best anyway

I play in 6 originals bands and I'd go to watch all of them!

I don't understand this. If I "leather the kit" with my hot rods, it's just as loud as with sticks?!

I really don't think hot rods will make a heavy hitter any quieter If he's hard of hearing and everyone else is loud, he might be playing harder to hear himself over everyone else. Turn your amps down. Does he play quieter or does he just complain that he can no longer hear everyone else?

We did the last slot at a festival on Saturday night, outside a pub in a tent, not a huge affair, not sure how many people were there but the tent was big and packed. It was loads of fun even though the crowd were constantly trying to put off our frontman, and the mains kept tripping.

Wow, that's amazing, thanks for the info

This looks amazing! Do you mind if I ask how much you spent? And how soundproof it is?