So band practice today…we actually learned a new song together! Yay! It went way smoother than I thought although it’s not nearly perfect. I’m still no singer and one of the guitarist is having an issue with the transition from the verse to the chorus but hey. We can get through it without stopping.
Had an interesting conversation with one of the guitarist though. There are 3 guitarist. One is basically the leader and was heavily involved in the youth group. One is my neighbor and went to camp with us this year but is heavily into being in the band and is a serious musician. The third is not so much part of the youth group, just a guy playing in our band. Well apparently he can be hard to get along with sometimes, trying to play too much rock and also trying to dominate everything. Well the other week I asked him to sing with me to help me figure out when to come in until I learned. He graciously agreed. But then last week when I had a couple key changes he mentioned it may be too high for him and also that he’d figure it out. Fine. Well tonight he says, “We’re going to have to figure out something about these keys, they are too high for me to sing.” I wanted to say, well, I’m sorry, the other keys are too low for me to sing so if you want me in this band, we need to sing them in this key. But what I said was, “Well, you and I are like me and St, we can’t sing the same key so if you can sing either the chorus or the verse, just come in then.” Trying to say just sing when you can basically. He says, “Well, I don’t want to be a backup singer. I only can sing when I project.” So I say, “Well, I don’t want you to be backup. I want you to project when you sing.” So I say, “Let’s just leave it like this for now since we’ve been practicing it like this and if you figure out something, we can talk about it next week.” So I’ve been invited to sing in the band but yet I’m not supposed to sing. And he is still playing guitar when he sings. It’s not like I can just stop singing and just play. I would just be standing there. He could play when he’s not singing. So why tell me “this is not working”. What does he want me to do? Just quit?
I took my neighbor home and he complained about him almost the whole way home. The bad part is the guy really does help me when he sings. I guess I’ll just ignore him for now and say something a little bit more forceful if it comes up again.
