My Online Guitar Lessons

Last Friday, (4th of July), our band played a battle of the bands against some great local talent in support of breast cancer. While we didn’t take home the trophy, what a great learning experience it was for us.

I blogged previously about my acoustic show with my good friends Crystal and Mike, and since then, our band has expanded. When we took what we learned from that show, we decided that we needed to change our musical direction somewhat. We decided that Crystal was such an amazing singer that she should lead, and leave me and Mike up to the guitar work. That was fine with us, and we also decided we wanted a fuller sound, including a drummer and bass. We turned from a small acoustic show to a full band when we had another opportunity to play live.

We looked at our previous setlist, took our favourite songs out, and incorporated them into a new set. Half of the songs we chose to cover had a female lead vocalist; bands like Flyleaf and Paramore. Now it just came down to learning and practicing the new songs as a band. We luckily found a bass player - Andrew - who Mike used to play with in a previous band. So now we were up to a four man band, and looking for a drummer. This is where it gets interesting. We decide on a band name and take some promo shots for some flyers for our show next Friday, July 19th.

However, we are still stuck for a drummer. We literally ask everyone we know for a drummer, and come across a few prospects. We started with my friend David who I jammed with previously, who picked up the songs quick and it looked like we were ready to go. Then after a few practices, he informed us he could not make the July 4th show. Now we look for another drummer. We get a recommendation from David for this amazing drummer named Justin. Unfortunately, we did not have enough time to practice with him before our first show, as he left the week before the show for a few days. 2 drummers down, who else to go?