Starting a Band
 

Hello everyone. I am a beginner guitarist, and I'm trying to become good enough to start a band with my 2 best friends, one of which is going to play bass and the other will be on drums.

We're all in different high schools right now, so I think we're all going to spend our time honing our individual skills up till graduation and then all go to the same college. There we'll spend time learning to synchronize our instruments and voices and hopefully come up with at least a few good original songs.

If anyone who reads this is an experienced band member, tips would be apprciated (things to watch out for, best way to advertise yourselves, etc.)

The following are our main positions in the band, although we will probably change things around occasionally:

Me: Lead Guitarist, Primary Song Writer, Primary Lead Singer
Friend A: Drummer, Co-song Writer, Backing Vocals, Co-lead Singer
Friend B: Bassist, Co-song Writer, Backing Vocals

Just learn to play three chords really really fast. The drummer can learn one beat. And the bassist doesn't really have to play since he can be drowned out by your vocals, guitar and drums. You'll be number 1 on the charts in no time.

my advice would be to join someone else's band first.....so you'll know how things work.....

Here's some advice. Don't qualify songwriting duties with 'primary' and 'secondary'. The songwriting process shouldn't be so contrived.

Haha, aint that the truth!

Cover Ramones songs to start off. They're both easy and catchy.

Oh lol, but I want to be good. I'm not sure I'd even want to be on TV, I'm more interested in live performance.

Don't piss off admins on a music forum for starting two threads on what your band name should be.

Sorry dude, don't know how else to say it. The fact is, I write songs a lot and send my best material to my friends for their judgement. The drummer almost never writes songs and the bassist's occasional lyrical content, though good, we both consider too pheminen and emo most of the time.