[TPIN] Cowboy chords and bar bands

[Dave Arndt]

I'm curious as to how the band learns new, original tunes without
being able to read... Is it totally by wrote learning at rehearsals,
or do they use some other approach (recording ideas and distributing
prior to rehearsla, etc....)

I play with a rock cover band where only the horns read.  It's a good
band, but the rehearsals can put you in stitches.  Because nobody else
reads, if they get screwed up toward the end of a tune, it can take
major time and confusion for them to decide a starting point to
resume!   I look at the tenor player and say "aw crap... Now they're
gonna start over...". (!)

  - da



On 10/21/07, Travis Wilson <travisw at pdq.net> wrote:
> Dave
>
> actually the majority of what we do are original tunes that our lead
> singer/lead guitar player wrote. (plus one that i wrote---not as good as
> his but the guys like it). This guy really plays pretty well and writes
> some pretty good blues tunes, maybe because they all seem to be based on
> his life and he has sure led a "blues lifestyle" life. Other then that
> we do some standard Blues tunes like Hootchy Cootchie Man, Paying the
> Cost to be the Boss, and Messin  with the Kid. We do some fun rock like
> a combo of La Bamba and Twist and Shout. We do a couple of  fun country
> tunes  like Folsom Prison (Johnny Cash) that seem to fit ok with what we
> do (hey it is Texas, you got to have a bit of country in your band). And
> then we do some tunes like  Rockin in the freeworld, and Jumpin Jack
> Flash. Those to me don't work with our group as well, but the guitar
> guys want to keep adding more rock. They are trying to put Alice in
> Chain's "Man in a Box" in our list, and let me tell you we sound really
> bad doing Alice in Chain style music.
>
>
> all together we have only 77 songs in our list.
>
> Travis
>
> David Stacey wrote:
> > What are some of the songs / tunes you do with this band?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tpin-bounces+des11=humboldt.edu at tpin.okcu.edu
> > [mailto:tpin-bounces+des11=humboldt.edu at tpin.okcu.edu] On Behalf Of Travis
> > Wilson
> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:41 PM
> > Cc: tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
> > Subject: Re: [TPIN] Cowboy chords and bar bands
> >
> > let me tell you. Back several months ago I started playing with a
> > blues/rock band.
> >
> > Travis
> >
> >
> >
>
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