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No not Me. I just lose my mind once in a while.
I know I'm not a musician. The bad part is I think I'm a comedian.

At the rate I'm going another 3 to 5 years I should be able to hear something and be able to play along with it without a problem. Starting to get it a little now. Some understanding about theory and chord progressions plus my ear is developing where I'm starting to know what I'm hearing. I like to have music in front of me. Even for songs I know just because I suffer from CRS and afraid I'll have a brain fart and just go blank. Scary getting old. Or wait maybe it was to many drugs way back when.

Blair, relax man.

I brain fart 2 in 3 times I actually hit the wood. Just play man.

The few people I do play with now know I may sh*t the proverbial bed at any moment. Thus we have contingency plans, we do practice picking it up from no where and playing live and/or semi-coherent.

I always try to keep going, I think that the most important. JUST DO NOT STOP.

On occasion I do stop in the middle and then I apologize or blame someone else, pause, throw a canned laugh/pathetic joke etc. and then I either start again or move on to the next one.

I had an acting class in college that really made me sweat. I had to do a 30 minute monologue just to audition to get into the BFA acting minor. It almost broke my little head. Until I had a epiphany about performing.

I had to do a dialogue that was to be 45 minutes on "Streetcar Named Desire". It was to be a big part of my final grade for the course. (I fing hate that tired crap) In the middle of it, I dropped a line and couldn't continue. My buddy was stumped. He didn't know what to do either.

In short, we both sat there saying "I don't know". There was this big ass pause and I thought the prof was going to lay the golden egg and start yelling in tones only dogs can hear.

Instead, I knew at this point it was make or break. Do something or give up. SO, I reached back as far as I could and ended up spitting out a rather large piece of STREETCAR some 4-5 pages forward of where we were. My cohort actually laughed under his breath when he figured out where I was going with it and we finished.

Afterwards, I thought EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT WE DID. Truth is, no one knew. The prof called it a "dramatic pause" and would have given us both A's, but when questioned, my partner cracked under pressure and explained that I had dropped a rather large slice of the material at hand.

Long story short, we both got C's. But what it told me was, PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING.

IF you act like you know and it sounds plausible, no one will know any better. The music is the same. If it's "way out", no doubt people will think you are going for dramatic license and intended it to be different in the way you expressed it. Just never let them know that you ever intended anything else than what they got.

If they liked it, you meant to do that....especially if they ask you. lol If no one says anything, don't bring it up.

oh yea, never stop keep going. I get into it so much and lose it even with the music in front of me just keep singing and looking for a chord till I find the right one. But yea never stop. If not to far off most don't even notice.

I had assumed that this site was primarily for the purpose of serious musicians linking up, but it seems to be multi functional. I guess that's not necessarily a bad thing...but it seems to me that there's already plenty of forums for casual discussion of music.

Forgive my shortness, but I'm having to consider the hiring of at least one "scab" to cover my next gig. Not a pleasing prospect to me. I've done music for a living in the past, and I'm still pretty serious about it.

I wish good luck to anyone else that may have similar time constraints, that their search is successful.

Check the musicians' union. They could probably help you.

I think that's what I'm eventually going to have to do.

I've just about given up hope finding what I want in music stores, craigs list, here & other sites, open mics & word of mouth.

Perhaps if I join, they'll be able to help. Seems to be working for Irish Anthony. Plus I could use the extra $ I could charge through them.

This site could help you find musiciians IF you:
> post music
> can actually, truly play . . .
> actually live within affordable driving distance
> play rock or metal
.
Other than that - yeah this place might help, but your chances are very very slim . . .

It seems I'm down to just finding a suitable bass player now. I've got the four suggestions posted above covered already.

From previous experience...getting the bass player is often the hardest task.

Seems what ever you dont have is whats hard to find

I've been a paid member for about two weeks, sent out e-mails to members and haven't gotten a single response. Not sure if these people even exist or that the mail system even works, maybe you could drop me a mail, somebody?

Musicians are typically useless flesh surrounding a genital when it comes to responsibility...not expecting much but expecting something...lol!

So, 'upgrading' would pretty much be a waste of money and time? I've only gotten 2-3 responses from people on this site.

+1 to the Craigslist recommendation. I've had way more responses from posting an ad or replying to an ad on Craigslist than I've had on this site.

Well hell I found this site hoping to find a drummer they are far and few between in crap town alabama now im kinda wondering if its a wast of time. Well hope not and yes most of us bass players started as guitar players and switched cause there are not many bass players left. Most of them simplafied the runs sooo much they got board and quit. A guitar player keeps pushing to make the runs more exciting to play. So if any drummers here in alabama email plz ppopeye38@hotmail.com thanks Flatline

Ive had a lot more luck on my local craigslist than on this site.

Ive picked up 2 gigs with working bands off of craigslist, this site is geared more towards conversation about music than actually hooking up musicians. I also got a couple of auditions from little adds in music stores and I have been going out to venues I wanted to play in and meeting some musicians who have let me sit in on gigs.

If you want to meet working musicians you are going to have to get off the couch and go where they are, they arent going to contact you just cause you posted something on here. It just cracks me up all the people that get on a site like this for a week and think the whole musical universe is just going to magically open up for them cause they are the next big thing.

I do like this site and have gotten a lot of ideas for things from this site, but in 6 monthes Ive only gotten together with 2 musicians from this site. So dont expect this place to build your career.

I started playing bass a long time ago because everyone wanted to play guitar. Switching to bass made me very popular and allowed to me to play in many bands with different styles which only made my playing better.

As for find musicians here at bandmix I have had little success. I get about 1 out of 10 people contacted to respond. I have tried the forum and the paid membership.

So if anyone knows of drummers and guitar playes in the DFW area of Texas that might play in a Church Praise band send them my way!

Sorry I'm goint to covet mine. But hey I'm just a rockin sinner.

Finding a singer is impossible! were still looking, if you know any vocalists in FL please send them our way.

Oh good.

Glad to see I'm not the only one bothered by:

A. No way to drill down by "primary instrument"
B. "United States" forum and no way to specify a state or metro area.

Not to mention having issues finding a bass player.

What I'm even more annoyed with is the fact that my post just got deleted from this forum and I didn't even get an e-mail (either in bandmix.com or real email) as to what the post I wrote did to violate whatever kind of rules the forum has. It's just gone.

Real frustrating when you're sitting around wondering how come nobody's wrote you back.

It's very sad too, 'cause this is a good looking site that basically has the right idea. It's a lot better than trying to post ads through CraigsList which has, basically, re-did it system in such a way that you can't even post decent ads anymore. They, TOO, are doing this annoying thing where it pretends to post your ad, shows it to you, but when you go to search for it, it's just not there--and nobody's around to tell you why.

I'm going to be pretty upset if I have to start paying a bass player to show up and do stuff but I guess nobody does anything for the love of what they're doing anymore. Who cares about music when there's money to be made, right? And here I thought that somehow we were above A&R and label types in that way.