Need some help -- Musicians please

[brad13]

1plus I play drums, and from what I've seen your best bet would be to go with a DW drum kit.. DW is good quality and reliable. Get some nice sabian cymbals and you got it set.. Also I know some recording studios will furnish a drumset for you if needed.. If not a DW drum kit I would probably go with a nice pearl drumset!    Those are just my suggestions! Good luck on your album and make sure to post it in AH forums when it comes out! 

[1pLUs44]

I'll definitely post it up. I'd probably be pretty lost without help from you fellas. 

[Thruster]

It sounds like the question is how much are you into the engineering end. If you're writing songs and don't want to get into the tech stuff, keep it simple. Get what you need to capture ideas and let a studio do the actual production. Do what you do. Even a marginal room will yield a nice record if there are good ears and restraint applied in generous measures. There are all kinds of digital recorders out there that are easy to learn and use but put out real nice field recordings.

BTW. I always thought D.W. sold pretty high end gear. We bought a kit a few years ago and after the smoke cleared I'm sure it was over $2k w/o metal.

[SuBWaYCH]

If your looking Alternative/Punk, going to be a lot of somewhat fast beats for the drummer such as.... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKmEN8ghls

Rock....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3qJmgktS0

Metal...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmCYd9lpxlE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yijKdC8kESA&feature=channel

Nu-metal...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COXMUGEFnag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MxYhZLsVwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0APr2Zo4oE

Punk/Rock...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94vo6NzQD5c

Scream Rock... (interesting style, sorta a mix between Rock and Punk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpO834GIxuw (that is my favorite band by the way)

Scream Metal...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcfLkrDXdn8&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYGQjYi2A30

and I will throw in some Rage Against the Machine as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv3xM3v4-rI

Just wanted to help you find a middle ground maybe. Easily the hardest song on that list is "This Calling" by All That Remains, followed by "Question" by System of a Down.

Hope this helps.

[sluggish]

If this is mainly a recording project forget about drums and get one of these-

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Line-6-UX2-with-PF?sku=250004

this-

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Steinberg-Cubase-Essential-4?sku=703191

and this-

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Toontrack-EZdrummer-Multi-Layer-Drum-Sampler?sku=703056

If you computer has decent specs you can make some very high quality professional sounding recordings with minimal effort.

[FiLtH]

 Whatever you do, have fun doing it. Me and my buds play every week and just have fun breaking down songs we want to learn, that and his kid is a whiz with tabs. I have no clue with that stuff. We have fun though. We play for our partys and everyone joins in singing. Good times

[crazyivan]

[Banshee7]

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As of lately I've gotten back into liking Shinedown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvOgRIr7ro0

90s music...i dig STP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xNyxc5VWs

80s music...waaaay too many things to look up or even list.

And...for the true "southerners" out there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyDie_4dOdU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg&feature=related

All of the above songs I sing (yes i know..hard to believe) for our band.  We just started a few days ago, and we haven't really specialized in one type of music...but we're just getting started still.  I'm not a musician of any type...I can't play a single instrument to save my life, and I know nothing about them.

[1pLUs44]

Whatever you do, have fun doing it. Me and my buds play every week and just have fun breaking down songs we want to learn, that and his kid is a whiz with tabs. I have no clue with that stuff. We have fun though. We play for our partys and everyone joins in singing. Good times

Tab is easy, any song you have trouble with, go to  www.ultimate-guitar.com type name of the song (not artist though) find the artist, download PowerTab (free) and it's like real sheet music in front of you. Tab and the real notes.

I use it to help teach me the real notes and learn tab at once.

SRV's little wing is my next big project. So far, I know a good bit of it, and by the end of '08, hopefully, I'll have learned it.


going on... Progress:

2 songs, Bass, Lead Guitar, Backup Guitar on all of them. (I can play all 3 pretty well... So if I have to fill in for Bass, I'm covered)
 

[1pLUs44]

Found a lot of local Record companies about 20 miles away. So far, I'm looking at these bigtime:

http://www.premiumrecording.com/services.html

http://www.affordablesound.com/

Premium Recording seems like a place where I'd feel more welcomed at. But still skeptical.