Originally Posted by: maggiorMay 6th - cool!!! It must be hard to have this dragging out. I'm sure it will go well for you.

Awesome that you seem to have some leads on people to get a band together with. It's exciting playing in a band! I'm going through this myself now so I know how hard it can be to find like minded people to play with. The drummer is furiously getting leads on people after hearing nothing for a month. Her husband is a professional musician and she has hired bands throughout the years for events in her town, so I think we'll have people before we know it.

Yeah, it's a bit of a pain in the behind to have it dragging out. Especially since I no longer know what I'll end up playing! One thing that I think could be really cool would be to play some kind of Rock-instrumental with a home-made backing track, but I'm not sure if they'll let me. I hope they will, since it's also in their interest, to show others how good some of their students are at playing, so I might as well play some of the stuff I play best, or at least some of the stuff I prefer to play. Yes, they teach students to play covers of songs exactly as on the recording, but everyone else is doing that. I'd rather show off what I have come up with by myself, not just play a cover of something (for some reason, though, I always have trouble coming playing when I try to record it. I'm consistently roughly a 16th note behind the drums and bass, but when I play for myself, with a backing track, without recording it, there's no such problem. Hell, I can play in front of others, and not be nervous, but once I have a camera or recorder going, the performance fright cripples my playing... It's weird, to say the least...

I'm looking forward to hearing from the bassist. We've agreed to just learn to play a basic version of the two songs ("Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Summer Of 69"), just so we can try jamming together as soon as possible. At least, this time around, I'm not the one worried about if I can keep up with the expectations :) In one of the emails he sent me, he just outright said: "I just hope I'm good enough to fill out the bass-role..." And that's despite me already twice stating that I don't expect to find some kind of absurdly talented musicians :) In fact, if he can find all 12 notes on the Bass Guitar in the lowest register, I'll be happy. I'm still looking for a Rhythm Guitarist and a Drummer, who are at the same level as the Bassist and me (beginner to lower intermediate), who want to play the same kind of music as we do. I'll probably be creating a new thread, when I hear more from either potential band-mates or the music-school :)