I love being in a band! It f**king rocks, I won’t beat around the bush. Even though currently I’m the one letting the team down by knowing the least songs I have an awesome time at every practise. I don’t feel too bad though, I did join a full band and steal some of the playtime away from the other guitarist, so it’s only to be expected that I know the least.
We don’t play our own stuff, we enjoy playing other peoples stuff – it’s easier that way and more people will enjoy it. Even if you sound dreadful, which we don’t, a covers band is always a good night out.
Currently I suppose I could do a setlist with about 10-12 songs in, but that’s barely enough to do a warm up.
We practise every couple of weeks and in the next fortnight I’ve got to carry on learning a few classics
- Peter Frampton – Show me the way
- Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a prayer
- Metallica – For whom the bell tolls
I can probably get Frampton nailed in an evening and then keep practising so that I can play without looking at all – you can’t look down when you’ve got a tube stuck in your gob and you’re eating a microphone!
Bon Jovi is near enough learned, just have to get the arrangement sorted and the little solo after the first chorus worked out.
The Metallica track is an annoying one – stupid little lick in it that just wont go away! I’ll probably have to work at that the most to get it in the right order as it’s all so similar it’s easy to forget which part comes next and even what part you just played!
I think it’ll probably take about 4 weeks to get those 3 tracks perfected between the 4 of us, so that’s 2 more practises. Then onto the next set of tracks to learn. No idea what we’ll collectively learn next but I have to learn the songs that they already do that everyone wants to hear at a covers night in amongst these. Answers on a postcard as to what I should learn!
If you’re still reading this you’ve got more tolerance for garbage than most, and I commend you. I can never sleep after getting back form band practise, always so wired. So tonight I’m going to watch another Sci-Fi film from the 50 that I have to watch this year and maybe have a beer, brewdog of course.
Laters.