TimR

The ones where men are on a normal distribution bigger, stronger and more prone to violence than women normally are. Look in the animal world and you'll see the same behaviours. You can pretend we are not animals. But all you're doing is pretending.

You can try and change words but you'll never change innately programmed behaviours. Which is what JP keeps pointing out, but no one wants to hear. All you're doing is slapping a coat of paint on what has structurally been built over millions of years.

Not always. I think it's like any relationship, you think if you work at it enough the other person may sort themselves out... It's only with experience you learn to spot the signs early.

I think we've all left bands, been chucked out of bands, been replaced, have bands fall apart on us. It's the nature of the beast. You'd never grow as a musician if you didn't move around and play differrnt music with different musicians. Just have to see it as an opportunity to try something new.

I think Guy Pratt summed it up quite well: "If you don't like bass players with strong political views, you picked the wrong band. If you think I'm bad, you should see the other fella."

No. I thought he meant that the bass and drums were large heavy sections like men and the other instruments were light and delicate like women.

Except that was exactly what he meant.

I thought men could now be seen as a bit girly as well nowadays. Not sure why being a man is positive and being a girl is negative. Even in this situation. Isn't a man being a man and a girl being a girl something that should be celebrated anymore? I have no problem with girls being manly or girls being girly. Or men being girly or manly. But I do know what manly and girly mean. Gender stereotypes are just that. Stereotypes. Music is all about sex anyway.

The band I was having trouble with went through 4 bass players in very quick secession after I left. Stand back and watch. Eventually he'll realise what the common denominator is (probably after enough people have told him) and sort himself out.

I played in a band for a long time where I was made to feel like the bad guy. I played a load of dep gigs and found another band, and realised it wasn't my timing and never had been.

@GreeneKing I wonder if the rest of his life is as chaotic and disorganised. Maybe talk to the drummer who seems to have some kind of understanding. But if it's all done and dusted, good luck with the next project and maybe you can spot this kind of behaviour earlier if you come across it again.

It's very difficult to read a 10page thread when you arrive late to the party. I was just asking for an update really. But, I've that's an accurate precis, mind reading is a very tough gig.

I can't even work out what way it ended. I guess that was the OP's problem with most of the songs. 😆

It's a long thread. Was it odd bars he was adding in or extra 4, 8 or 16 bar phrases. Assuming if the rhythm guitarist was struggling too it sounds like he was just going off and expecting you to follow. If you want to lead people and expect them to follow, you have to give some kind of directions.

It will depend on each individual song. The first step is to realise that you won't get those songs to sound like the original. If you're all inexperienced, you'll need to sit down together and work out what guitar parts are 'essential' to the song. The guitarist may enjoy playing all the intricate 'fill in' lead parts but a lot of the time they're just that and the meat and gravy is with him taking more of a rhythm role. Pumping out 8th or 16th notes on the bass will fill most songs but needs to be used sparingly. What songs in particular sound empty?

I'm having a battle just trying to get to talk to the manager of a pub so that I can change the email address, because a band member decided to get involved (unasked) with trying to get paid and is now refusing to use their system. He's also refusing to play there again... Considering it was a gig in August, I'm not sure we are going to see the money ever.

I thought the thread title was referencing Dm and wondered why it wasn't Dm6.

You can see why some artists seem to cancel at the drop of a hat.

I've no idea what people's personalities are like when they're not on stage. If I took any notice of anyone's political beliefs or personal beliefs I'd probably never go and see anyone play. Plenty of bands and artists I've seen live have had bad nights. It's live music.

It's a very good chat. I watched it earlier this week.

If it's AVI YouTube encode it. I'm guessing some software has been 'updated' at their end somewhere.

It only gives me options to see it up to 480p. Although I'm not sure it's actually in 480p. When you go to your YouTube account does it show as available in any other quality? What's the quality of the original?

How do you put a price on creativity? That's not really 'work', many artists have made millions from a noodle that they've turned into a song. Doesn't matter how long you've sat at home puzzling and sweating over the fretboard, a tune could pop into your head while you're out for a walk with the dog. Hardly what anyone would call hard work. Most bass lines and drum parts are fairly generic, unless they're a significant feature of the song. The song would still work just as well with another bass player creating lines that fit. But it has been decided that the melody and the lyrics are the copywritable parts. You can argue how much of the melody the bass line is, but that should be fairly evident.

Try taking out the s of the https maybe you're logged onto YouTube or something. Or just strip it to www.etc

I think the Spice girls are all credited with all songs. Not sure how much they wrote individually though. As a bass player I think there is a distinction. When I played in an originals band we definitely had three styles of writing. 1. Guitarist would turn up with a song. The musicians would add bassline, drums and keys. Vocalist then took the song away and added lyrics. 2. I would sit down with Guitarist and we would come up with ideas together and structure the song together. 3. Free jam, playing off each other and see what popped up. If I had to apportion any credits then I would probably go for 1. Guitarist & Vocalist. 2. Guitarist, Bass payer and Vocalist. 3. Whole band. When that is decided, is the difficult part and when people have to have the discussion. If everyone in the band is honest and open that 3 way approach would work, if you have someone who is difficult in the band and a bunch of people who don't deal with confrontation you'll end up with all songs as scenario 3. whatever input anyone has made. Musicians aren't always the best people to discuss money and legal difficulties. 😆