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- Hard work
- Taste
If one of those three are missing, you have (in order) an adequate-at-best pub rocker, a tragic waste of potential, or a prog-jazz noodler. If only one is of the three is present you end up with (in order) a 1% genius, a joyless bore, or someone who probably never picked up a guitar in the first place.
Get all three though and the rest is just individual personality traits.
That's how I think of myself in a band context.
I can't sing (wish I could, but I'm tuneless) .... I should learn the technical skills, a mix desk is still a mystery to me ... a very good point made here
Concise and relavant.
You need some skills.
You must do your homework.
You gotta play sympathetically to the song and the others in the band.
As monquixote suggests, most of the talent - for band work & live playing - has to do with being a good rhythm player.
99.9999999% of your time is spent playing rhythm ... (caveat - unless you're in a band whose music entails loads of solos and instrumental breaks).
You can be as technically capable as you like, but if that only translates to being academically impressive, then you're a waste of time as a musician imho.
Music is supposed to make peoples hearts and minds soar. It's supposed to purge the audience of all their woes and stresses in that moment, and take them to another place. Doesn't matter if it is a 3 minute pop song or an 18 minute prog-rock extravaganza. They're both doing the same thing for the listener.
So ears. And the ability to use them. That's the only criteria in my book.
It's not as black and white as that though, and of course for myself there are some technical requirements I ask of people joining the band, and ones that I ask of myself too. Precision is one of them, groove, and the ability to lay back in the mix or come to the forefront when needed - doesn't matter what instrument. Tight timing, no sloppy notes, ability to tune the instrument, etc.. etc.. But I consider that stuff to be pretty universal for musicianship.