hello drummerworld!
I have an issue with a song of my band.
It's a funky song, 100BPM. The main groove is like 16's on the hi-hat and backbeat on 2 and 4. I'm playing with headphones (click).
At the end of the song, our singer introduces the band members. Each musician has 8 bars (4/4) to "solo". My problem is the tempo (100BPM) to play the solo. In my opinion, it's too slow to play 16th or sextuplets but too fast to play 32's. I'm kinda desperate, everytime trying to come up with something I am happy with but it just doesnt work. I usually play it "safe" meaning that I play only few notes.. not faster than sextuplets... sometimes I even play the main beat with some slight extra notes. However, I really want to play something giving justice to the song. To be honest, the stuff I play sounds like s*it to me... these 8 bars are supposed to give me shine and the spotlight is on me. I just can't make it happen with a 100BPM click in my ears.
What would you do/play to "present" yourself at 100BPM? Any ideas, suggestions? youtube examples? Do you agree this is a difficult tempo to solo? or is it just me?
thanks for your input guys. appreciate it.
cheers
I have an issue with a song of my band.
It's a funky song, 100BPM. The main groove is like 16's on the hi-hat and backbeat on 2 and 4. I'm playing with headphones (click).
At the end of the song, our singer introduces the band members. Each musician has 8 bars (4/4) to "solo". My problem is the tempo (100BPM) to play the solo. In my opinion, it's too slow to play 16th or sextuplets but too fast to play 32's. I'm kinda desperate, everytime trying to come up with something I am happy with but it just doesnt work. I usually play it "safe" meaning that I play only few notes.. not faster than sextuplets... sometimes I even play the main beat with some slight extra notes. However, I really want to play something giving justice to the song. To be honest, the stuff I play sounds like s*it to me... these 8 bars are supposed to give me shine and the spotlight is on me. I just can't make it happen with a 100BPM click in my ears.
What would you do/play to "present" yourself at 100BPM? Any ideas, suggestions? youtube examples? Do you agree this is a difficult tempo to solo? or is it just me?
thanks for your input guys. appreciate it.
cheers