Okay, so, me, my friends pat, dan and kory are at pats house. Pat plays guitar and i play bass. We had been jamming for a couple of weeks. so pat starts tlaking to dan about how he should get drums (in front of kory). PAt's explaining all the reasons dan should get drums, blah blah blah. the next day, kory say to me that he's getting drums. Now, i like kory and all...but he has the Worst taste in music, an extremely short attention span, and would pretty much be impossible to jam with him. If we do jam with him once, he'll be bugging us to jam all the time, then me and pat wont get any good practice in cause we're being annoyed by kory's simple "ADD". Its really nothing that we can fix. Its just annoying. Knowing that we talk to dan about this, and the next day, kory runs out and decides hes going to get drums. He's a good kid, and i like him as a friend, but he's really got no attention span. Also, the things he's been doing lately have been ticking me off...I dont want to jam with him... Am i just being an asshoel here? or am i right? or what? compliments? suggestions?
My suggestion would be to give it a go. I've been in your situation before (kinda), and here are a couple possible outcomes (based on my own experiences) of giving Kory a chance as a drummer. 1. You'll jam with him and be surprised to find that it actually works out better than you thought it would. 2. You'll jam with him and it won't work out. When this happened to me with a drumset-buying friend in high school, he ended up giving up on the drums completely after about 6 months. A year later I was borrowing his drums to play in another band, and he was totally cool with it. Regardless of how things play out, I'd give him a shot. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work...
Some of the best musicians in the world have attention deficit. I have A.D.D. and I'm a great musician. My attention span problem was solved after about age 16, as most people begin to slowly grow out of the affliction, but I still have certain problems in other areas because of it. You should try jamming with the guy anyway. He might blow you away, or he might suck. You'll never know until you try it.
Well, im not sure that he really has ADD, but its just kinda a joke between us all...cause he has no attention span at all. He was on some dumb, useless medication cause he was alittle crazy in school, so he got whicked mellowed out, then he stopped taking it, and he worse than ever...i think the stuff messed him up. I hate medications. But i guess i will give it a go, I kind of have to anyways.
The shit probably permanently fucked up his Seratonin releases man. If it was Prozac or any Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor that's a real possiblity. I used to act up in school all the time, too. Stupid, stupid way to be. Instead of giving the little bastards medication we need to just sit them in one room all day with a teacher and force them to do work with all the other asshole kids. That would have helped me more than catering to my needs as a punk who thought he was invincible. Good thing most people who go through that grow out of it. I don't see how an attention span is going to be a problem with jamming out, though man. I can see practicing maybe, but jamming out what do you think is going to happen, do you think he's going to just get up and walk away when he loses interest? lol I wouldn't think so. The only real problem in jamming is shitty timing, or a guy who doesn't practice enough or just plain sucks at his instrument. I guess being creatively void may also be a big problem.
Well, what I think may happen, is that we start playing somethign good, then he just plays somethign totally different, or wants to go do something else. I dont know if I'm right, I'm probably wrong, but who knows?
If the kid is young, around your age, maybe. But, I think you're just under-estimating your friend's mind. If you're jamming Smoke on the Water, I strongly doubt he's going to just bust out on Stairway to Heaven or something. lol
