The problem with caring about your music...

Cirrus

... is that it matters to you when it sounds totally shit. I need a whisky. Anyone else have bad band practices, where you come home feeling totally miserable and dejected? It makes it even more annoying when I realise that a bad band practice is pretty much the quintessential first world problem.

guitarfishbay

I came home tonight and had a Magnum ice cream. I feel we may have different vices. )

Cirrus

Strawberry Cornettos in my place  8->

gusman2x

Yup, for sure. And I record all our practices too, so sometimes the feeling is ten times worse when you listen back to it and it sounds like utter shit. Flip side is when you come home after a great practice. You sounded good, added new bits, and it was generally ace. Like last night.

PolarityMan

Cirrus said:

... is that it matters to you when it sounds totally shit. I need a whisky. Anyone else have bad band practices, where you come home feeling totally miserable and dejected? It makes it even more annoying when I realise that a bad band practice is pretty much the quintessential first world problem.

All the time. Last one featured a 20 min heated debate about if something is in 5/8 or 7/8. (It was 5/8).

Cirrus

PolarityMan said:

All the time. Last one featured a 20 min heated debate about if something is in 5/8 or 7/8. (It was 5/8).

The song that brought me to despair last night has a section that alternates between 6/4 and 7/4, except halfway through the chanted vocal slips by one beat so its final syllable is over the first beat of the next section. It's hell.

Maybe your song is simply in 35/8? everyone wins!

Roland

Cirrus said:

... Anyone else have bad band practices, where you come home feeling totally miserable and dejected?

Yes, and sometimes gigs too, but if you didn't care then you wouldn't get any better.

Drew_TNBD

All the time. I suffer post-gig downers quite a bit too, no matter how good the gig is.

digitalscream

PolarityMan said:

All the time. Last one featured a 20 min heated debate about if something is in 5/8 or 7/8. (It was 5/8).

The debate isn't the point. The real question is...were you right?

On to the OP...rehearsals aren't the problem for me (current band haven't actually had a bad one yet, luckily). For me it's when it's all recorded, then you sit there thinking, "this is shit", and you absolutely can't figure out a way to make it less so. A couple of our songs are like that for me - they sound great live, but on record they're just plain crap.

meltedbuzzbox

digitalscream said:

PolarityMan said:

All the time. Last one featured a 20 min heated debate about if something is in 5/8 or 7/8. (It was 5/8).

The debate isn't the point. The real question is...were you right?

On to the OP...rehearsals aren't the problem for me (current band haven't actually had a bad one yet, luckily). For me it's when it's all recorded, then you sit there thinking, "this is shit", and you absolutely can't figure out a way to make it less so. A couple of our songs are like that for me - they sound great live, but on record they're just plain crap.

what you need is some badly played lead through a fuzz factory into 5 different delay pedals all set at different rates and a whammy.

I think Tom Morello is free