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Christophe:
So I have a problem. The problem is that I have never been in a band that either didn't break up from boredom within a month's time or had time conflicts that prevented us from meeting regularly. And even when I am in a band with other people I feel extremely weird about telling people how to play songs I've written. The prospect of it seems incredibly unappealing to me, having to dictate part by part how a song goes when nowadays I have been playing drums for about a year, so all I do is just record everything myself. (yeah yeah, part of being in a band is coming up with things together but sometimes a man just has fully formed songs in his head.)

So while there's something nice about being an Elliott Smith or a Simon and Garfunkel and being able to play songs with just a voice and an acoustic guitar, most of the music I want to make would be reliant on other people playing along with me in a band setting.

So there are people on this forum for which things like this are not a problem, at least to the point of being farther along than me in making music with other people. How do you do it? I'm pretty lost at that myself and could use a few pointers.

sean:
maybe one thing that might help would be to write songs with the band that yr in! i mean, its cool that if you have yr own songs but you can't ignore the creative input of the rest of the band. i guess if yr the main composer thats pretty cool but i feel like that even if you have songs fully formed in yr head, you can't ignore the creative influence of everyone else. just sit back and let the music flow out of everyone, i guess? thats really what we did in good night, sweet prince. but there we also basically wrote our music out of jam sessions, except for one little part.

i dunno, different techniques work for different groups of people. it's a complicated thing, i think.

Joseph:
I enjoy that you gave him a real response on the PRF and not here, Tommy.

Joseph:
Do you have any of his contact information so I can see if he's interested in joining my band?

StaedlerMars:
See sig.

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