Suddenly I've had this really strong urge in me to learn how to play drums... Its probably becuase I see so many bands out there with the shittiest drumming ever... but I like guitar too and I already know how to play that... plus if you play drums you cant usually do too many vocals... so im really stuck between which instrument I should persue... if I stay on guitar, i can keep working on my vocals... if I go to drums I can probably find a band easier (always someone looking for a good drummer), and I think there is more room for originality w/ Drums than Guitar (after seeing the blood brothers drummer live)... what do you think?
I think drums are easier... I played drums a couple years ago, to play in my sister's band, but that broke up before a month and I stopped playing 'em then, because guitar is the shit... the guitar is the most versatile instrument available to the human race today. If you're looking for quick success, try drums. (imo) I forgot his name... but the drummer for Moby Grape did a lot of vocals on their debut album.
dave grohl: drummer/guitarist umm i cant really think of many acceptable drummers (for me) that can sing well at the same time... the only song ive ever heard, that i know of, that sounded ok with the drummer singing lead-ish is that one the band song... the weight. i think that if you need to be good at something and you can sing guitar is for you. if you are good enough a band will be formed. great drummers are hard to come by. true enough. that drummer for tool is amazing. i think drummers are becoming underrated... by ways of thier importance. and the importance of their need to be good.
to me theres a big gray area in drums... like theres a lot of people who are just "alright" with them... its a quick success because i dont think many genres of music call for much originality with drums... but there are a few bands out there that when I see them live, I see that their drummer completely stands out from the rest... that kind of inspires me to want to play drums... becuase ive never seen some of the things done before... Yea you can do vocals on drums too... its just more difficult... in a recording studio its easier but live it would be tough. theres that other older group i forgot their name... the chick was the drummer and she did vocals... eventually she quit drums and just did vocals...f erget the name of the group. ide be aiming to play drums like Pig Destroyer, HeWhoCorrupts or The Blood Brothers... double bass rolls and crazy crazy originality with tbb
oh and another reason ide wanna do drums is cuz both my brothers play awesome guitar and if I learned to play drums well we could start a family band... it'd be like Hanson except Metal.
Well, no one ever said you had to play ONE instrument. You can play drums on your own time, and do guitar/lyrics for a band. I play bass in a band, but another thing that's important to me is playing sax (alto/tenor/barri) in jazzband/marching band, and I'm also marching in a drumline with bassdrum. I'm hoping to march hex set tenors next year, but thats gonna take a lot to learn. I play clarinet/flute on my own time in my own styles, and know a few guitar chords. But in a bands terms, I would go with guitar. SO many guitar players out there nowadays think they're the shit because they can play chords really fast and scream some lyrics, and judging by your opinion of MCR you're not like that at all. So go out there and save the guitar world! Then maybe if you're in a band you could voice your opinions about what would sound good on the kit or other percussion? Next time you get the chance just sit behind a basic kit and see what its like. Kick the bassdrum, grab some sticks and play on the snare/cymbals/toms. I play aroudn on the little kit I have, and it helps me write basslines and lyrics for the group of people I play with. Good luck, Mui
when I visit my brothers I play on Al's drumset all the time... man that drumset is so decked out it is quite fun too.. I actually do screaming vocals I dont know if thats what you were talking about though... i dont consider MCR to have screaming vocals at all... screaming vocals are like saetia and the blood brothers and I think that those vocals are harder to do than singing vocals a lot of the time... bad screaming can be the worst element ever to have in a band though, much worse than bad guitaring or drumming so you have to perfect it before you can try to impress anyone with it.
Ah I know what you mean, I meant the whiney screams of emo bands, not the metal style music like that. I have a friend who is an incredible singer who can scream like none other, and it takes a lot of work and practice like you said. I guess I didn't read close enough to realize you were a metal type person... haha sorry. I love that kinda music when done right... It's really enough to blow you away.
im not into metal but my brothers are so i would be forced into a metal band. i like hardcore and old emo, true screamo... i just figure that hardcore drumming is around the same as metal drumming though.
i play the guitar, but i always wanted to play drums. they are a better stress reliever. there are a million hendrix impersonators out there (including me, sadly), but there are only a few john bonham impersonators. it's just a more powerful instrument.
I disagree. Any instrument can be powerful in the hands of the right person. John Coltrane was one of the most "powerful" musicians of all time and he played the tenor sax. Mingus played bass. Miles Davis played the trumpet. Kurt Cobain played guitar, and was terrible at it, but he still moved people with his music. I feel I'm a very powerful musician and I'm mainly a sax/clarinet/bass player. But I guess it depends on your deff. of powerful. To me, it means how moving you are, and how your music gets across to the people... how emotional it is, and the blood, sweat and tears you've put into it. So I'm not the greatest musician that ever lived, but to me it's more important the emotional and feeling I put into the music I play. And as to there not being that many Bonham inpersonators out there, I think that's totally untrue. There are so many stoned out kids these days who sit there and listen to nothin but Zeppelin and think they're gonna be the next Bonham becuase over the course of a couple months they learn to play Moby Dick. (95% of them can't play it right anyway but they think they can-_-) I could go on and on and on AND ON about how many people I know do this, and just from the rest of the world that I've seen (No farther than 1,000 miles outside the greater Milwaukee area) there's so many kids out there who they that when they get older and get outta school they're gonna be the next Bonham. Or the whole story could go towards Moon. Or, if we're talkin jazz, Buddy Rich and his band. And what do you mean that drums are a better stress reliever? Just hte physical aspect of beating the living shit out of a drumkit? I can see that, but for me I've always had hte best stress relief when I sit down with my tenor sax and just jam out. Or when I play my bass so long I come close to having to glue my fingers back together afterwards... hehe I'm sorry if I rambled there, and I'm not trying to bash, am just curious on what you mean but what you said, and just stating my own personal opinion and my own point of view. I think that any true musician may have idols he looks up too, but musicians do not try to copy one another. They learn from one another and crete their own style, gathered from the experiences and knowledge they've picked up along the way...
I play drums, bass, percussion, mandolin, banjo... etc... I really wish more people played bass and drums, though, but I'm best at guitar...
yeah george is great at guitar. well a few months ago. unless he lost fingers hes probably better. bonham was great. there have been better since him. well differnt style i suppose. drums are expressive because they are a rythm and that is closest to what our body is. just one rythem of energy. heartbeat. its the primal form of rythem beating on something. other instruments require you to feel the rythem to play them with it.
Drums are really easy if you wanna sit down and play really straight foward grooves and simple fills, but she says shes sick of shitty drummers. i think if you wanna be a good drummer you can put just as much work into it as guitar.
