Anyone just starting a garage band like me?

[brianmayhem]

Ya, it's Arizona and it's hot so I want to press a CD and get into the bars were it's cooler to play.
So let's hear it who else wants to get their homeys out of the garage and on the stage?
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[MrSamson]

I am more at the stage of "Getting the Garage band together..."

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MrSamson

[LilPunkGirl]

thats ok yo, im at the stage of "how on earth am i supposed to be able to play with other peole?" http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Deadbeat]

Well, I'm more at the stage of my 2 bandmates live a few hundred miles away from me, and my lead singer plays bass cause we don't have a bassist, so pretty much, we ain't done sh-t in months.

[ghodaddyyo]

Yeah? I live in a place where EVERYONE wants to be a rockstar and nobody wants to just jam!

[greed2000]

I'm just starting a basement band. Me and the other guitar player have jammed together for quite awhile, but we dumped our old bass player and drummer in favor of some quality musicians. Then, just recently, we added a really good veteran singer. Right now we're building our song list and starting to put together a set list. We will be doing covers until we can slowly incorporate some original stuff. It's fun, but I can't wait to get out of the basement! Check us out at www.cornerband.com (http://www.cornerband.com) Look for Beggars & Thieves from Michigan

[bubinga]

i've been jamming with a notsotypical garage band for the last couple of months. It was me and my drummer at first. We have been playing since we first started playing. The first practice was him and i in a room you couldn't even walk in nevertheless have a drumset and and guitar. I had to stand in the hall way so the feedback wouldn't kill us. We played "Higher" until our heads turned blue. We got a bass player who's not so great, but at least he had a garage. The strange thing is we're playing our own stuff and just now playing covers. It's gonna be hot as heck in there this summer (in louisiana)

[greed2000]

Any progress in the "just started my band" category.

We (Beggars & Thieves) have got about twenty tunes ready to go and hope to have another 20 in a couple of weeks. I've started talking to bar owners and promoters looking for gigs. I hear that when trying to book bands, mosts gigs will be about 30 days out.

greed

[Issaqua]

Originally posted by LilPunkGirl
im at the stage of "how on earth am i supposed to be able to play with other peole?"


lol yeah, I need to find people into the same stuff, then shut up long enough for them to play a note http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif

[skubasteve120]

one of my buddies plays bass, and another plays guitar, but we're in search of a drummer.

[CGQueen14]

Yeah, I got a couple people who want to start a band with me, but getting them to get over and actually play some tunes is a doozie.

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[Pinkerton]

Well, I just started playin with some friends of mine, basically we jam in the mornings in the school music room. On fridays we go to my friend's church and use all their mikes and mixers. it isn't so bad, we're gonna do a coffee house in May. Right now we do covers, older Weezer, The Ataris, HibiscusBloom, and I'm writing some lyrics to try some original tunes. Mostly about lost love and passed loved ones. Hey, it's a start!!

[pinballwizard000]

yeah, i just started getting a band togethor. i'm the only guy who's been playing for more than a year, so we're not very good. but wew still have a few songs (one is pretty good. remember 'flavor of the week'? they stole it from us). we dont have a good bassist, so i bought a cheap one from this old bud and i just sorta **** around on it, stealin licks from the who and such. we're playin at the other guitarist's school's dance...we're probably gonna tank. wish us luck

[dmt]

Good luck pinballwizard!

I'm with a bunch of guys. We play (mostly improv jam in a rented studio. The weak link is no good vocalist (though our former drummer has apparently switched to vocals/rhythm guitar - I haven't heard this yet). Beyond that we're not quite disciplined or committed enough as a group yet to get a setlist together. If we get comfortable enough, though, we might just do an instrumental improv thing at a friendly bar I know with a friendly, familiar audience we could scare up. We'll see.

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[ElectricLL]

Yeah?? Yeah??

Heck, I cant top that.

My friends around, are more the type of social music listeners.

You know all the kids at school listen to metallica so they do it to be one of them.

From the day I got my first guit, all I wanted to do is write music.

And I dont think recreating old formulas to make extra money is called doing that.(Sorry if im offending any metallica fans)

-ElectricLL

[fingerpickingood]

PINBALLWIZARD000: we're playin at the other guitarist's school's dance...we're probably gonna tank. wish us luck

....you cant win the war without a few tanks. Know what I'm sayin?

[Shibby]

i know what u mean, there's not enough frickin drummers and basists in the world!

[xchaos01]

You can say that again (please don't)...

I'm searching for a drummer and the only firend that wants to buy some drums won't spend more than $150 bucks...

...oh, but he WILL spend $850 on a car him and his girlfriend are going to buy!!

[Shibby]

yah, i'm just trying to get them into the garage. lol, but i'm moving anyways...anyone looking for a guitarist in LA!!!

[TomN]

A guitarist in LA???
What are the chances.

Sorry j/k http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif

[Shibby]

lets see....I have a friend who plays guitar, around as good as me, probably a little bit better because he's in jazz band and gets more practice. Our bassist is another friend of mine, he's musically challenged if that's a nice way to put it. Our drummer....well, we don't have a drummer but there's a set in my garage because my 10 year old brother plays. And that's about it for us, maybe i could get something real going when i move to LA next year.

lata

[BrettV]

hey shibby,

I'm in Burbank, so maybe we can get together and see how it goes .. jam, bar playing .. whatever ..

-Tk

[Shibby]

that would be cool except ur probably a little bit older than me.

[WraithSphere]

Ur 10 year old brother? Plays drums? http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/bounce.gif

I say you brainwash him into liking the type of music you do then push him into being the best drummer ever. InstaDrummer!. only not as instant. So what if he's 10? You could be a credible Hanson... http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/rollsmile.gif

[drunksquirrels]

The hardest elements of a band to find are the lead guitars and singers. choose them wisely. If you like the sound of your band changing either one of them will alter it forever. Its happened to one of my buddies and In my opinion after ozzy was gone sabbath was the suck.

[Silver Rhy†hm]

Hei dude you should be proud you have a band in your garage unlike us we have a band but we dont have any instuments HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!! ....wait thats not funny.. waaaaaaaaaa http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/hammerhead.gif

[longdayina]

I feel your pain. I've been itchin to jam w/ peeps, but its hard to find. I might be movin to Phoenix so maybe we'll cross paths. I've been makin a lot o material to. If anyone is interested in checkin it out you can download at www.purevolume.com/Enos (http://www.purevolume.com/Enos) . Cheers.

[tromplemonde]

we played our first real gig on saturday! good thing nobody knows the pixies, they probably thought our covers were originals. we didnt have time to finish our set though... but anyway we've only been together for half a year and 5 bass players... the current bass player actually likes the band and she doesnt suck so its looking good.

[Shibby]

cool. did you get any feedback about it? what pixie songs did you cover

[ibanez_man_sa]

longdayina id have to say yer the best garage band ive ever seen your stuff is awesome good luck on getting into the music business yoour for sure good enough to get in. your stufff rocks keep up the good work if u have ne songs i could listen to or haVE NE INFO EMAIL ME AT DATAZMAN_12@HOTMAIL.COM

[ibanez_man_sa]

longdayina do u happen to have the tabs for sleepy and the first song on the list the one about the moster i reallly like the songs and i would like to play them email me at datazman_12@hotmail.com if u do thnx.

[Shibby]

my band just recorded some stuff. i'm signed up at purevolume and i'll put it on after its mixed and copywrited.

[Terren]

longdayina, your songs are really good. Though a lot of them sound like they have an extremely similar intro/opening. (eg, the light picking on the guitar growing steadily louder).

Otherwise, keep up the good work.

[ibanez_man_sa]

how do you copywrite songs ???

[codewiz11]

You don't have to do anything to gain copyright ownership over something that you make yourself. As soon as you make a piece of music, you own it. Proving you are the one who actually created it first is the problem...
http://www.guitarnoise.com/copyrights.php

That should help you learn all about copyrighting.

The main way to copyright is to send your sheet music or a tape of your music to a government registration office. Costs about $35 each time. (Wait and compile a bunch of songs and then send them in together so you're not paying $35 every song every couple of weeks.)

Or you could do what's called the "poor man's copyright", which is what I used to do and it only cost you the price of a stamp or so. I won't talk about it in any more detail because I have found out that it might be a waste of time. (There's a dozen ways to fake a poor mans copyright.)

[Shibby]

oh really? cause thats what i was planning on doing.

[Shibby]

oh nvm...my dad explained it to me. He's a copywrite/intelectual property lawer/prof.