My singer, as good of a guy as he can be, isn’t the type of guy to assert himself.

We’ve been together for almost a year and when we started, I made it clear to him that if we have problems with bandmates or with me, while I’m open to him or others venting to me, if it becomes problematic and it continues, I will move to have it on the floor and addressed.

For the first time in this band, we had a bad practice session. Things didn’t sound right, we couldn’t get the sound tweaked in, and while we were tracking a new tune, the guitarist got frustrated and got kinda snappy with the singer for not understanding what he wanted. He is introverted and a closed book. He’s also still grieving over his dad’s passing a few months ago. My singer deals with his own mental hang up, as we all do, but for me, I don’t let it deter me from doing what we need to do.

Singer stepped away which I commended him for and he vented to me and I thought I had diffused the situation until he was posting about his issues with him in social media. Had to put on my leadership at and told him to remove that post and that’s not what we do. He apologized and removed it. He didn’t think anyone would see it. I was patient yet assertive. I told him i understood how he felt but I told him that I expect opennesss and honesty from all of them and myself. That were not going to do this. Signer said he’s going to detach and distance himself from the guitar player to make it work.

I told him I can’t stop him and to do what he feels is best for now to cool things off. But I made myself clear that if this becomes problematic and causes unnecessary tension and friction, I’m going to step in address this and discuss this between those two and I will moderate. He refuses.

So now because of one bad day for the first time in this band. his whole perception of the guitarist changed. I don’t see him in the light that he does. And honestly, I don’t think the guitarist is even aware that the singer is upset with him.

Our guitarist is out of town for two weeks. While I hope things cool off, I’ve made myself clear. He can say he’ll separate himself from him to make it work like his last band, but I’m ready to make a change and cut him loose if I have to.

Being the leader comes with responsibility, I can understand and be empathetic towards everyone’s personal hang ups and such, but I won’t let it destroy what we’ve built so far. I won’t nuke it.

I’m grateful to our singer and his contributions, but I’m not going to have hidden grudges and resentments. If he refuses to work this out with the guitarist simply cause we had the first bad band practice since its inception, then I may have to replace him. I have no issues with the guitarist and I know how to deal with his personality. But in a band, people need to be open and honest about problems and issues with others and myself. I’ve been in too many bands where pent up resentments results in unnecessary blow outs or friction. Yeah it’s a band sure but I have a vision and I intend to see it through. If you refuse to work it out with the person you have issues with, then this band isn’t for you.

I’m 18m in the midst of learning bass and I’m somewhat okay with vocals but I would love to make a bank with genres like pop,indie alternative 4-5 people max between 17-20 and it doesn’t have to be a everyday thing let’s all just make music and enjoy it and test out the waters. Roles for vocals drums and guitar are open feel free to reach out gender and all that other stuff doesn’t matter 😎

Hi, I know this is probably not the best place to put this but I’m desperate. I go to Pensacola High School and our band director just said that he has to quit due to personal reasons. He is leaving the school on Friday next week and the position was only recently posted. I, myself, and others want the band to have a full season with as little issues as possible, but without a band director after next week that will be difficult. Especially now finding a band director will be difficult due to the school year already starting so fewer people will be looking for the job.

So anyway my question for all of you is that if you yourself or someone you know is a band director please consider applying to be one at Pensacola High School, all of the students would greatly appreciate it.

If you have any questions I’ll try to anwser them, thank you all.

Hey so im the leader, vocalist and guitarist for my band and need some opinions on some band troubles. My bassist wants to sing a song and his voice is alright but my concern lies on whether or not its stepping on toes especially considering certain aspects with the bassist. He doesn't really contribute much other than playing the bass in the band. We have to pick him up and drop him off any time we go anywhere because he doesn't have a car and doesn't want to learn how to drive as well as doesn't help pay for anything like helping gas or merch because he doesn't have a job. He still takes a portion of the gig money and the rest goes toward funding the band. I feel like it's becoming a bit of a hassle to work with but im not sure if its just my ego being out of whack or not.

Edit: Thanks everybody for helping me out with this! I wanted an outside perspective before bringing anything up with the rest of the guys so I could have a fair unbiased conclusion and decision. He'll be singing the song and ill have a separate conversation about the other concerns one on one with him

i’m interested in forming a band but i have no idea to start and i barely have any connections with musicians/friends or anyone i know who’s interested in the genre. pretty much looking for a new hobby. anyone in tho? Was thinking into forming something like spiritbox/dayseeker/BMTH 😂 i’m based in Malaysia btw.

see i cant play anything but i love songs so much and for some reason i waana make a song,lately its been hitting harder for somereason

if anyone just waana goofe around waana do randome shit then lets write something togethor just for fun just something to do with extra time

i was confused which reddit to share so pls tell where i might can get people who wants to do this

Sinds een tijd ben ik bezig met het opstarten van een nieuwe band, en daarvoor zoek ik een bassist (die gemotiveerd en gedisciplineerd is). Voor een of andere reden, kan ik nergens zulke bassisten vinden. Ze zijn vaak niet op tijd, hebben hun materiaal niet op orde of andere onhandige dingen.

Wat is een goeie plek om te zoeken voor bassisten, en zijn er misschien buiten de standaardmethodes nog dingen die jou specifiek hebben geholpen?

I have been trying to find musicians i play guitar, I don't play lead don't want to I just want to play my chords and sing a bit, I have tried, one bass player was to political, i have only ever wrote one political song and one guy was not a good person and the other bass player I had didn't even know the names of his strings when tuned and js wanted to "groove" which is fine but he didn't know his notes and wanted to js jump around on his bass the ENTIRE time over and over, ive been trying to find a band for 4 years, tried to get my friends in on it but thier busy with other things, tried Facebook groups but its always a country band or a metal band and its 30 yo men and im 19 and want to play music that gets wrote not just covers. I'm so close to giving up

For context, I have been making music for at least two years now, and 6 years of experience with the violin. The only problem is that I am NOT popular at my school. Nor do people enjoy my company. It's simply homophobia, I think.

Holaa soy un chico de 16 que busca experimentar en la música, toco el teclado desde hace 3 años y mi amigo toca guitarra y bajo, necesitamos guitarrista, baterista, y si se puede vocalista, el genero que tocamos es ambiguo, se supone que es rock y todas sus variantes, no dudes en escribir si eres de Madrid

просто мне не с кем пообсуждать музыку, вот вообще.Друзья музыкой не увлекаются, а я ее просто обожаю. Сам слушаю много каких жанров, играю на гитаре и басу, пытаюсь писать материал для группы.

В общем я творческий человек, может кто найдется с кем можно то таком поболтать

So I’ve been trying to start a band for the last couple years and it‘s been all over the place. I had 3 friends in mind-a drummer, guitarist, and bassist. (I’m a guitarist). What I wanted was to play progressive instrumental music and both me and the other guitarist are both proficient players. We both know theory and it’s really easy for us to communicate ideas with each other. The drummer is mostly a heavy metal drummer, and it works good with what we do. The bassist I had in mind didn‘t join. The first few jams were awesome, we were firing off ideas left and right and making good progress. But after a while the guitarist started being inconsistent and not answering texts. And my drummer keeps inviting new people to play bass but most of them don’t know notes and just don’t know what’s going on. And now my drummer thinks we should get rid of the other guitarist, but honestly without him what I had envisioned just wouldn‘t work. The last few jams have just been me and the drummer and it‘s difficult for me to write music like that because I can’t play rhythm and lead without looping stuff so it’s hard to tell what works. I just needed to rant for a minute lol