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Christoph
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Christoph
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01/19/2005 9:32 pm
Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrsright now they already have 3 acoustic guitar players (one is pretty good, the others are so-so), 1 keyboard, 1 bongo player (lol), 3 female singers, and 2 male singers. so it's a pretty strange band


3 acoustics, eh? That seems like a bit of overkill. Usually with bands like that it just sounds like a muddy mess, unless of course you have a soundman who knows what he's doing.

What they probably want you to do is hang back on the verses, and then come in on the choruses with some powerchords and riffs. What I like to do in bands like that is keep it on the clean patch on the verses, and do some chording and small fills. Then on the chorus or wherever the song picks up, come ripping in with massive distortion. :)