Where do drummers like to hide at night?

I need to find a drummer. My drummer walked out on us mid-recording.

It will be easier to repair an already established relationship than start a new one and transfer all the data.

100% agree with Boom. It's not just drummers, it's every band member. You invest so much into getting a unit that is tight and works well together and it's all ruined over a few words. Get in touch with them, talk it out, find out what's going on.

On the way to record one of our demos, the guitarist and lead vocalist quit. Sadly that was me. The rhythm guitarist told me not to tell anyone and just do the best recording I could give them. After it was all said and done I told them and that was it.

The whole band actually got together and had a drink at a show about two months ago. It was the first time the four of us have been in the same room in 20 years!

My advice is still the same. Repair the damage now. There is an open wound now. Better to try and heal it now than let it Fester

try begging him back, whatever it is you were doing that drove him off, promise to cut it out... failing that? go to craigslist or whatever and cross your fingers... failing that go to more local shows and buy beers for drummer of established bands and try to convince one to be on your record until you find a permanent guy. Where do drummers hang at night? Usually bars.

The hard part is finding the right bar. Drummers are usually a couple of bars ahead or behind everyone else...

You get no, "Badump tsssst" because this thread is about not having a drummer.

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/012010/1262639505_drummer-falling.gif

What about a wooga dooga dooga dooga dooga dooga cloink? (that was a badump tsssst in the eighties)

Maybe Doogada Doogada?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GYAJ3d_HDY

So, consensus is, get my drummer back?

She quit because she lives mad far away, and because she can't make recording sessions regularly anymore.

It wasn't because of a disagreement or anything.

Ohh... it's a laday.

I would suggest letting her stay with you on the weekends or around recordings. Recordings don't have to be frequent anyway. Maybe once a week or further apart.

Yeah, but like it got to be a problem.SHe couldn't make a couple of rehearsals and she can't take her drum kit home from my basement because her apartment building doesn't allow it. She was good, but she could never really practice.

Ask her if she can practice at home. Run through all the parts and then get her to record all parts to all songs in one sitting.

What YOU can do for her is give her rough mixes. Download a metronome app with tap tempo. Record just you playing the song (in time with the metronome) start to finish. Get her to practice with that. Tell her she is awesome and you guys know she is the best choice.

For all their hard hitting, drummers are really fragile. Talk her up and give her a reason to want to be part of this with you guys.

why don't you consider a rehearsal space that's more convenient to her? I was in a band that lived all over the philly metro area and beyond but we set a rehearsal space based on affordability and nearly equal distance from all members and everyone was welcome to leave bulky gear there as it was a recording facility that also made the rent with rehearsal rooms on the back of the building. It was cheap to lock out at a monthly rate because that central location happened to be a bad neighborhood a lot of people didn't want to deal with.

The site of your (at least) weekly rehearsal should be convenient for everybody or barring that equally inconvenient to everyone. Furthermore all members should chip in until you can make rehearsal self-funding. You want to establish an LLC or SCorp with equal shares to all members to umbrella even the simplest band functions like owning your van (do not leave it in 1 member's name), insure it and to control your publishing rights, performance copyrights, mechanicals etc. You can sign your LLC up with BMI or ASAP. You will want to incorporate in Delaware for various reasons...any elase needed for rehearsal facilities should be in the company's name just like the van title. All emmbers/shareholders should be authorized to stand as an signatorie for the corporation in non contractual matters in case you need to sign something to do with the van or a lease.... anyway, I could go on. A little organization will help you keep members because everyone will certainly have a stake....a dn some consideration and fairness is generally a big help in fostering esprit de corps as well.

okay, thanks for advice. for the recording we're working on i have three options now:

-wait to get back with this drummer and organize shit -drum myself -hire a session drmmer

For the price of a session drummer, I'm sure you could buy an electronic drumset which would let her practice at home.

okay, thanks for advice. for the recording we're working on i have three options now:

-wait to get back with this drummer and organize shit -drum myself -hire a session drmmer

Never underestimate the power of a beatboxer!

Underestimate a beat-boxer? Is that even possible?

it sounds like this is more YOUR record than a band record and people are going to sense that exclusion and not be dedicated to it unless you buy their loyalty or return them an equivalent favor for their pet project (which sometimes can be non-musical like helping a drummer repaint his house)

hm. i dunno, we have three songs written by the lead guitarist, four sons by me, four songs cowritten with the drummer, and one song we did entirely from scratch all together. the rhythm guitarist dislikes songwriting, so he doesn't usually.

oh, okay, that's not how you were putting it over in previous posts, I stand corrected... so you just lost 5 songs?