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View Poll Results: whats the most important instrument in a band
guitar 28 28.57%
bass 18 18.37%
drums 35 35.71%
vocal 14 14.29%
piano/keyboard 3 3.06%
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Old 05-13-2006, 08:28 AM   #81 (permalink)
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drums are needed. they keep the beat and can have some of the best parts of a song. the bass and guitar are equal. for diffrent reasons.

bass keeps rhythm and can keep a melody. cause really when a guitar solo is going you cant headbang to it, they dont have much rhythm. you're headbanging to the bass, drums and maybe rhythm guitar and enjoying the solo.

guitar can keep a better melody and can do crazier stuff, but usually sounds like crap without a bass. ever hear the white stripes live? it's hollow. there's drumms and Jack going nutzo on his guitar with no low end to back him up (for songs like 7 nation army anyway)

so yeah.

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Old 05-14-2006, 03:38 AM   #82 (permalink)
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Drums. Without drums you have no ****ing beat.
 
Old 05-15-2006, 10:10 PM   #83 (permalink)
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yea but some songs have no drums just vocal and guitar and maybe like a piano

...also drums by themselves cant make a song id just beat like a beat playing for like 5 minutes with occassional fills......

would you turn up the drums so louad that you could barely hear theo ther intruments? no....
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Old 05-16-2006, 12:04 AM   #84 (permalink)
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Drums. Without drums you have no ****ing beat.
Tell that to bluegrass musicians.

There are other means of providing percussion than just drums... Instruments like Banjo can be used because strumming the strings provides a very percussion like sound, and combine that with a good bassline and you have yourself a beat... Which is why a lot of bluegrass and folk bands don't require a drummer.
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Old 05-21-2006, 09:52 PM   #85 (permalink)
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The creator of this thread is smoking.

In any band every member is key to making the music. You can't just choose anyone instrumentalist because the band could work around them if necessary.
Think of Mars Volta. half of their songs are pure instrumental. In which case the vocalist becomes unimportant.
Then think of groups like the Foo Fighters, where you have a drummer, a bassist and a guitarist. The band works as an entire unit where no one instrument is mor important than the other. Get rid of the drums and the songs sound a little hollow. take a way the guitar and you've got a song that's missing a rythm. Take a way the bass and the song sounds. . well it just wouldn't sound the same

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yes i know hehehe

o yea without the bass the song would not be as "full"
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i'm a bassist, and dude, we're insignificant.
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depends on the stylel of music ie. classic rock its all about the guitar
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Old 05-28-2006, 11:15 PM   #89 (permalink)
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You're wrong..there are a lot of classic rock bands where the bass is just as significant as the guitar..like Rush and Yes
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Old 05-29-2006, 01:40 AM   #90 (permalink)
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depends on the stylel of music ie. classic rock its all about the guitar
What kinda classic rock are you not listening to?

No Pink Floyd song would be the same without the bass.
Rush too.
Or Styx.
I don't know if i should put Genesis in this caetgory but. . . Although I don't think you'd miss the bass too much for this particular band.

I'm sure there are others. . . .
This is gonna keep me up at night. . .

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