Bloody Snare drum wires.....

[dave_bass5]

Over the past few rehearsals and gigs, ive noticed my drummer's snare wires are vibrating over most of the intros where he doesn't play, but me or the bass player start the song, and over one where he uses rim shot most of the time. 

I know there is a lever to mute/pull these back.  I asked him at the gig on Sat about one song and he said it was tricky doing this. I appreciate it can be, but isn't it something he should be doing anyway?

I think it sounds very unprofessional having extra noise's over intros. Im the only one that has brought this up. 

 

Am I being unreasonable telling him to get this sorted?

[Mykesbass]

Sorry, can any of our drummers on here explain the difficulty as I have never encountered a drummer who has thought this was a problem?

[dave_bass5]

Just now, Mykesbass said:

Sorry, can any of our drummers on here explain the difficulty as I have never encountered a drummer who has thought this was a problem?

I was surprised he had never even considered it, but with my band I seem to be the only one that picks up on these things. 

I guess he was put on the spot and so I can understand he wasn't prepared for this, but im hoping it will be sorted going forward.

 

Or do bands not bother with this sort of thing and im just being anal?

[gjones]

20 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

I was surprised he had never even considered it, but with my band I seem to be the only one that picks up on these things. 

I guess he was put on the spot and so I can understand he wasn't prepared for this, but im hoping it will be sorted going forward.

 

Or do bands not bother with this sort of thing and im just being anal?

 

It really cheeses me off too. No drummer I have ever played with ever thought it was a problem, until I brought it up. Then they looked at me with a stupid look on their faces.

 

Have you ever showed your drummer how you can tune your bass guitar to the oscillation of his snare drum, it's an interesting trick.....and illustrates the problem of intrusive snare drum rattle pretty well. 

[dave_bass5]

Glad it’s not just me. I’ve let it go for a couple of years, admittedly it’s not been a big deal with our old set, but we now have a few songs where its very noticable.

 

I dont play bass in this band, but to do what you suggest above id have to teach my bass player how to tune his bass first……😂

[Dad3353]

I'm a drummer, and I've never heard of this being a problem, as it's a drumming reflex to back the snares off at the end of the song, and snap 'em back on for the next one. Are there drummers that don't do this..? 

No issue now, for me, anyway, as I use an e-kit, soooooo... 

[Beedster]

3 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

Are there drummers that don't do this..?

Hell yes

[dave_bass5]

1 minute ago, Dad3353 said:

I'm a drummer, and I've never heard of this being a problem, as it's a drumming reflex to back the snares off at the end of the song, and snap 'em back on for the next one. Are there drummers that don't do this..? 

No issue now, for me, anyway, as I use an e-kit, soooooo... 

I’m pretty sure none of my other drummers over the years didn’t do this when possible. 
I mentioned an E kit to him, as he does have one, but got an odd look lol. 

im just dumbfounded that none of my band have never mentioned it before, although I’m not really surprised considering the other issues they never hear or mention. 

[EBS_freak]

16 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

I asked him at the gig on Sat about one song and he said it was tricky doing this.

Perhaps he should spend the next week doing this as part of his practice… assuming he does.

[dave_bass5]

30 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

Perhaps he should spend the next week doing this as part of his practice… assuming he does.

Im not sure he does much of that. He seems to make a lot of mistakes. He is a good drummer but doesn't quite get the songs right these days. Nice bloke though and I would never want to argue with him, but things have to be said if they need to.

He did ask me to remind him at the next rehearsal, which I took exception to and told him maybe he should make a list of the songs that need this. I wipe enough asses already. 

[BigRedX]

As someone who has played in many bands where the drums are produced by non-human means and has shared the stage with lots of bands with human drummer this used to be a massive problem back in the 80s and 90s and we were always having to ask the drummers in other bands to turn their snares off so they wouldn't rattle along in sympathy with out backing track. However this thread made me realise that I can't remember the last time I had to make this request, so at least the drummers in the bands on the small bill as us are clued up to this now.

[dave_bass5]

I can’t ever remember having to ask a drummer in all the years I’ve been playing. Maybe it’s not been much of an issue and I’ve not noticed, or they were turning  them off when needed. 
Either way, we now need this to happen in my current band and i expect it will be an uphill struggle, but i won’t let it go. 
I just wasn’t sure it was a thing with drummers. 
 

Thanks for the replies and confirmation.