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Offline MOEDRUMS

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THE THING YOU HATE MOST ABOUT PLAYING DRUMS???????
« on: July 20, 2005, 02:57:05 PM »
OK, I KNOW MOST OF YOU CATS PLAY,AND LOVE TO PLAY,BUT WHAT IS THAT 1 OR 2 THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT BEING A DRUMMER??? HERE ARE MINE.............................


1)LUGGING EQUIPEMENT TO A GIG,WITH NO!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP AND THEN PACKING IT UP AND LUGGING IT OUT, WHILE THE KEYBOARDIST JUST UNPLUGG AND CARRY THEIR KEYBOARD OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



2) ALOTTA DRUMMERS GET A BAD RAP ABOUT THE WOMEN!!!!!!!!!! WELL IN MY AREA AT LEAST, EVERYWHERE I GO,AND I MEET A FEMALE,THEY AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME I AM A PLAYER OR HAVE ALOTTA WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2005, 03:09:15 PM »
One thing I dislike about playing drums is playing with other musicians who don't have or share the same passion you do about playing.  For example, when our praise team is learning new material, I feel like I'm the only one who goes home and listens to the CD well enough to reproduce it during service.  I'm not saying that you have to be an exact duplicate of the recording artist, because you do want to add a little personality of your own, but at least you should be in the same neighborhood.  It's very frustrating playing songs correctly when no one else is.  You kind of stand out as being over aggressive when in actuality you're playing the song the way it's supposed to be played.  Another thing I dislike is when other musicians try to force and establish the tempo of songs when that's my job.  Sometimes our keyboadist will start a song too fast, only to have to slow it down before the vocals can come in.  That could have been avoided if he let me do my job.  Lugging around drums and hardware without help is always the number 1 complaint.  Hopefully, I wasn't too off base with my response.
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« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2005, 03:14:54 PM »
Hey man I know how U feel about lugging all that equipment around.
Another thing I cant stand is playing in a room that is not sound friendly (high roof, brick walls, echos, etc.). And because of that u have to play extra soft because if u hit the drums any louder it will drown everything out.
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2005, 03:32:18 PM »
1. Playing any song in 3/4 time signature. You know the beat... boom tap tap boom tap tap. Absolutely hate that beat.

2. Playing with a pianist whose ear is not that good and they have to play all the notes until they find the key of the song... HATED IT!!!

3. I know you said 1 or 2, but I hate playing quartet music. That monotonous 4/4 drives me crazy; especially when they get to the drive of the song and do it for like 20 minutes... HATED IT!!!
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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2005, 07:19:43 PM »
i hate when u in service and the organist or md tells u to stay in the pocket if u do a simple fill, but they do runs and killer chords throughout the entire song. thats not fair. lugging equipment is the number 1 worst thing. and when u do gigs wit a community choir, some of the churches drumkits are so horrible. even if u bring a snare and some cymbals it still anit cool. in my city we got a top ten list of churches wit the worst kits to play on. i dont mean bad, i mean horrible kits!!! like a folding chair for the throne, twigs for sticks, busted heads, thick hi hat bottoms for a crash, no hit hats at all, no cymbal stands, etc.
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2005, 07:53:24 PM »
Quote from: sugabear
3. I know you said 1 or 2, but I hate playing quartet music. That monotonous 4/4 drives me crazy; especially when they get to the drive of the song and do it for like 20 minutes... HATED IT!!!


 :o rofl
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« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2005, 08:25:59 PM »
Yeah young sirs I definitely know about the lugging equipment complaint. My brother is a keyboardist so I tease and tell him about that all the time...
  My biggest complaint is when at church they hear a song and their clap is outside this planet and the drummer has to get the train on the right track..then everybody looks at you thinking that your wrong...lol
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« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2005, 08:40:02 PM »
LOL,YEAH THESE ARE SOME GOOD 1"S, I HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM MOST OF YOU GUY'S HAVE HAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 :wink:
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« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2005, 09:50:46 PM »
1) When your drumsticks break and you don't have another pair. :x

2)When your drum head bust in the middle of service. :x

3) When you play shouting music for a long time. :x

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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2005, 10:05:50 PM »
ikickset said it best.

1 playin on raggedy kits

2 luggin my set, from practices to gigs.

3 and that pocket thing, don't tell me to stay in the pocket, if u can't even stay on the planet!!!!!


theres so many more to name, y'all have given so many good ones already 8)
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« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2005, 10:15:58 PM »
Man the only thing I hate about playing the drums is LUGGING ALL THAT EQUIPMENT AROUND!!
All of the other musicians have it easy but the drummer has it the hardest. I recently did a gig and the bass player and i kinda got into it a little cause he got impatient while i was setting up telling me to hurry up. Well i told him to give me a hand or don't say anything at all!! After the gig we both laughed at the situation :lol:
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« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2005, 11:42:48 PM »
Heck yeah!  I hate those beat up kits at churches!
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« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2005, 12:13:01 AM »
YEAH THESE ARE SOME NICE ONES STILL. LOL. MY BIGGEST ONE IS DOING A SHOUT FOR A LONG TIME. AT MY CHURCH WHEN THE CHOIR WEARS THE GOWN THE MUSICIANS HAVE TO WEAR IT TOO. SO I'M SWEATING BULLETS WHEN THE SHOUT MUSIC COMES! PLUS I HAVE NO FAN.

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« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2005, 12:14:36 AM »
Come on ya'll. Don't tell me that you don't get callouses...I hate that man.

Also, one thing I hate. I am all for experimenting with different scales during practice and rehersals, but when your bassist is experimenting DURING WORSHIP is when things get bad!!!!

I hate lugging equipment ofcourse.
Also, when all of the singers, keyboardists, bassist, guitarists are looking at you setting up your kit like "umm, hurry up" LOL I HATE THAT. They just plug in a Mic, or pull their amp out and plug in. For drummers, we have to get EVERY CYMBAL positioned just right, and if we don't, its like playing a bass without the E string(was gonna say G String LOL).
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« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2005, 11:09:31 AM »
i absolutely hate when you break stix and you have nooooo money to spend on some new ones. i also hate it when i have to play on somebody elses set and the drums are tuned really high like timbales or when their pedal is really cheap and you are afraid that if you lay in , you mught break it......
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« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2005, 11:37:19 AM »
man i hate raggady drumsets!LOL!
drum throne up as hi as it can go and cant git it down!
extremely worn heads with with a gang of duct tape
kik pedal held together with coat hanger wire LOL this is the truth!
no simbles jus hi hats. and no nuts to hold the simbles on the stands.I hit the
cymble and it came of and landed in my lap. MAN that was funny!  :lol:
im not the best drummer but man i've played on some junk :!:
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« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2005, 12:25:12 PM »
What about when you hit Pastor Joeybigbooty in the head wit a stick and he plays it off like it didn't hurt ...

What about when that little high hat piece gets loose and your stuck playing a whole song with an open high hat and if you even think about playing that wanna be ride/crash cymbal you finna get looks.

What about when your foot pedal gives out for good n' a youth ministry came cross country to see how you do worship.

what about when the resononant side of your snare breaks n' it sounds like you doin a bob marley reggae set .

What about when you forgot your floor tom mount.

what about when you popped a callouse n' you bleedin on the set.

What about when your sound man turns everything on EXCEPT YOUR KICK MIC in a 10,000 square foot auditorium.

What about when you no it wasn't your fault and everyone in bands looking at you like you messed up the timing. LOL
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« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2005, 01:08:21 PM »
I hate playing on a set with no bottom heads on it. That is so sto' front!!!

What about those dang wood chips. Ya'll know what I'm talking about... the wood chips from your sticks are always all over the floor by the set. It looks like the chipmunks had an annual banquet that you didn't know about. The janitor's always looking at you like you're the junkiest person in the world. LOL
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« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2005, 11:39:29 PM »
- packing/unpacking or set up break down of all the equipment
- people lying about how great there sets and when i get there it is like a 80's pearl power set combined with a 92' yamaha set and a cannon bass drum with no front head and a camber crash and crash ride
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« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2005, 12:14:40 AM »
Well what about when people come from different churches to play ONE SONG and bring enough equipment for a 5-piece percussion ensemble to play.


And then when they get done playin' they don't evan bother settin' the home kit back up. And you spend the rest of the service settin' everything up.

Or when drumsticks just pop up missin'. Or another drummer comes and ACCIDENTLY takes your 6" zildjian A custom. And you have to wait 4 months b4 their church visits again.
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