Originally Posted by
seth
Hiya,
My name (As my username would imply) is Seth. I live in Ohio, and in late February I bought myself a drumset. I'm playing on a 5-piece Apollo Kit that I got from a local music store for about $200, new, with key, throne, hi-hat, crash (Paiste cymbals) and throne. From my understanding it's a basic kit.
Before I got into this I had really no interest in drumming. I always loved Travis Barker, John Bonham, Neil Peart, and other drumming "Gods," but I never had a desire to learn. My friends and I had talked for a few weeks about starting a band, and my buddy got a guitar, so to match his commitment I bought the kit.
We started off with pretty huge aspirations, like I'm sure a lot of people do. Very quickly our bass player fizzled out, when we learned he didn't think he had to practice more than once monthly. But my guitarist (Todd) and I continued to practice, and we're at a touchy point.
We have a new bassist, who has experience playing shows. I'm worried I'm too far ahead of Todd on the learning curve, if you will. He says drums are millions times easier to learn than guitar, but the fact stands- I can play about 7 songs through on my kit, and he can't play 1/2 of a song through on his guitar. I'm not trying to come across as a prodigy, I have worlds of stuff to work on, but I'm worried I'm leaving him behind.
I'm willing to play the easiest things, as long as he can learn them, but he seems more interested in just learning a solo rather than becoming an efficient musician. We're founded in hard rock, punk, and grunge (Quite the trio, I know) and I've exhausted myself trying to find songs he could potentially learn.
So that's the first of requests I have to you guys here: Suggestions for a very simple song on guitar, that fits one of our interests. I consider myself an efficient person, I don't want to wait the rest of my life on him to learn the guitar. If I'm better off finding a new group of people, I have no problem doing so.
Oh, I'm 17 years old.
If this is the wrong place, chastise me freely. I couldn't decide where to put this, but thanks for any help you can offer!
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