I recently put together a band that includes a very talented female vocalist. For the most part we all get along, but there's always something. We were going over Rolling in the Deep by Adele, pretty simple groove and I thought everything sounded fine, then the vocalist says, something didn't sound right, I think it was the drums. She goes on to say that there's some sort of cymbal that I wasn't adding to the song. Well, it turns out she was referring to the hats. After watching a video of a live performance by Adele, I could see the drummer was playing the hats over the kick pattern during the verses which was difficult to hear in the original recording. Not a big deal, but she insisted I put it in, so I did, but it just seemed so nit picky.
Then the bassist kept complaining that some songs were dragging.
The main song in question was Brown Eyed Girl, another fairly simple groove, played it many times with no complaints, but it just wasn't fast enough for him. By the time we figured out what tempo he wanted, the song was like a runaway locomotive. I tried to plead my case, but I was out voted by the rest of the band.
Then the rehearsal took a nasty turn when one of the guitarist says, didn't we all agree we wanted this to be a good band and play everything as close as possible to the recording? He looks at me and says, we all say you're wrong, so what's the problem? At this point I got a little stressed and just let it go. So much for having a nice relaxing rehearsal.
Sometimes I want to just ditch the whole band thing and just play the drums in my little room.D' Drummer
