TroutMacDuff
Junior Member
Hello!
Anyone have any experience playing in a band where one (or worse, all) of the members has bad time? Be it rushing, dragging, or just generally being rubbish.
I play with a band once a week, just an informal free-for-all type jam session every Tuesday. Jazz /Latin jazz standards with some blues and rock stuff thrown in. One of the people who goes, and usually plays at least half of the night, has a terrible sense of rhythm and time. Speeding everything up and playing things that throw everything out, etc. You know the type. Sounds like an energetic child with an instrument.
I can feel my timing getting worse since playing there. Mostly in that I rush things. I'm not saying my timing was ever perfect, but usually I could keep pretty consistent through a tune. Perhaps once in a while I'd try something new and speed up because of that. But now I'm gradually speeding up. So with my time already on the verge of speeding up all the time, and everyone else pulling me forward, it's no surprise that the ends are much faster than the starts.
It's surprising how difficult it can be to hold people back who want to run away!
Any advice, exercise books or generally anything to help combat? Perhaps similar to stick control but incorporating the whole kit.
Trout.
Anyone have any experience playing in a band where one (or worse, all) of the members has bad time? Be it rushing, dragging, or just generally being rubbish.
I play with a band once a week, just an informal free-for-all type jam session every Tuesday. Jazz /Latin jazz standards with some blues and rock stuff thrown in. One of the people who goes, and usually plays at least half of the night, has a terrible sense of rhythm and time. Speeding everything up and playing things that throw everything out, etc. You know the type. Sounds like an energetic child with an instrument.
I can feel my timing getting worse since playing there. Mostly in that I rush things. I'm not saying my timing was ever perfect, but usually I could keep pretty consistent through a tune. Perhaps once in a while I'd try something new and speed up because of that. But now I'm gradually speeding up. So with my time already on the verge of speeding up all the time, and everyone else pulling me forward, it's no surprise that the ends are much faster than the starts.
It's surprising how difficult it can be to hold people back who want to run away!
Any advice, exercise books or generally anything to help combat? Perhaps similar to stick control but incorporating the whole kit.
Trout.