Off Topic Cant you just clap in time ?

[DTG]

We are a party band and we try to have as much fun as we can everytime we play. There is a few songs we do where we try to involve the crowd, ya know break it down to bass and drums and get them clapping along or singing along.

But there is a few songs like " can't hurry love " or " mr brightside" that we do and there is alway one drunk clapping out of time and he is like a beacon it's all I can see is him clapping so badly out of time it's like he is listening to a different song on a Walkman !


It's very funny and the rest of the guys and normally falling around laughing as they see me turn my back on the crowd to focus on the drummer.

My SR 5 sounded amazing tonight again !!

 

[adouglas]

Yep, happens every gig. We do "Land of 1000 Dances and try to get the audience to sing the call-and-response. There's a "training" bit where the drummer and I keep the groove going while the singer goes out in the audience.

It's HARD to keep in time when that happens!

 

[JayDawg]

I used to play to youth kids at church and what sucks is when you get several of them intentionally clapping off beat to be funny. That can makes things challenging.

 

[DTG]

It like an oncoming car, you know you should focus on the road but you can't help looking into the lights !

 

[AlexBongoCrazy]

I remember at a transatlantic concert here in Paris there was a bit in 7/8 which had a bit of a groove to it so people were trying to clap along but didn't really get it. I think if I was the drummer all that 4/4 clapping would put me off

 

[madbassplaya]

One morning at church this older lady that had never been there showed up to our band practice. While we played she clapped TWO tambourines together. It was really throwing me as well as the drummer off. She did it during the service as well. We now have a no tambourine policy in the sanctuary.

 

[DrKev]

Tambourines are EVIL!! They should be banned.

 

[Golem]

Tambourines are EVIL!! They should be banned.

Uhhhmmmnnnnn .... I have a Double Bass Tambourine.

It's way cool. It's a frame drum, about the size and shape
of an Irish Bodran, but the frame is loaded with clangers,
like on a normal tambourine except these are much bigger
[so less trebley sounding].

So, just how big IS a DB tambourine ? Well, it travels in a
mixer case, 18x18x5" with no room to spare [ignoring the
bag's corners acoarst].

 

[DTJPPR]

Go to about :30

 

[Smalls]

One morning at church this older lady that had never been there showed up to our band practice. While we played she clapped TWO tambourines together. It was really throwing me as well as the drummer off. She did it during the service as well. We now have a no tambourine policy in the sanctuary.

I feel you. We used to have to hide the tambourine from a pastor's wife.

 

[captaineo]

One morning at church this older lady that had never been there showed up to our band practice. While we played she clapped TWO tambourines together. It was really throwing me as well as the drummer off. She did it during the service as well. We now have a no tambourine policy in the sanctuary.

I AM SO WITH YOU ON THAT! An off beat Tambourine in a Worship Service is MY MOST FEARED NIGHTMARE! Once and ONLY ONCE....NEVER again for me.

 

[DTG]

Go to about :30
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KTlBQzYSs

That's very funny dude !