what genre for my band?
i have just got a band together, trouble is we love loads of different kinds of music, for example, i like chris rea, bon jovi(sometimes), greenday, alkaline trio, queen.
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Originally Posted by: guitarjanei have just got a band together, trouble is we love loads of different kinds of music, for example, i like chris rea, bon jovi(sometimes), greenday, alkaline trio, queen.
Why do you need to know what genre to play? Just play the music you like, and make up your own material. If it doesn't sound like anything else, you've created your own genre. My band has its own genre. We call it fish-jesus-lamp-fan-gamecube or something like that.
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"Rock" works for a wide spectrum......i hate genres :mad: it's music :mad:
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Originally Posted by: z0s0_jp"Rock" works for a wide spectrum......i hate genres :mad: it's music :mad:
Agreed. If you don't label yourselves with a genre, you may find that your band can fit in with other musicians from a wide variety of music scenes.
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Originally Posted by: guitarjanethere is a competition coming up and if you put yourself in you have to have a genre.
Well then, I would say "rock." It's so vague it works for everything.
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musics music, theres no rules to styles etc. You might need to understand that :)
eg.
speed-classical\jazz-fusion\deathcore\progmetal i mean wtf :eek:
whats point in narrowing down music that limits your mind, im not a hippy i swear :cool:
eg.
speed-classical\jazz-fusion\deathcore\progmetal i mean wtf :eek:
whats point in narrowing down music that limits your mind, im not a hippy i swear :cool:
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Originally Posted by: earthman buckWell then, I would say "rock." It's so vague it works for everything.
Yeah, either that or "Alternative". Not "Indie", though, because that has connotations of manufactured pop-rock bands, and I'm assuming you're not one of those!
"It's all folk music... I ain't never heard no horse sing!"
- Attributed variously to Leadbelly and Louis Armstrong
If at first you don't succeed, you are obviously not Chuck Norris.
l337iZmz r@wk o.K!!!??>
- Attributed variously to Leadbelly and Louis Armstrong
If at first you don't succeed, you are obviously not Chuck Norris.
l337iZmz r@wk o.K!!!??>
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Originally Posted by: AkiraAgreed.
It's much easier to put "rock", than "Instrumental industrial progressive ska with a hint of doom metal mixed with neo-classic emo."
Ha, that's amazing. It's going in my sig.
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Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.
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classify yourself as "arrillian gleetpoo" from the third nebula system...i doubt if you will have competition and you will win that genre ;)
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Originally Posted by: z0s0_jpclassify yourself as "arrillian gleetpoo" from the third nebula system...i doubt if you will have competition and you will win that genre ;)
That, to me, is clever. Like I said, my band doesn't really sound like any other music we know of, so I guess we have created our own genre.
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Originally Posted by: NeoClassicdon't play according to a genre
play what you want to come up with
alot of times you have to play according to SOME kindof genre...thats how you build a fanbase. no one wants to love a band that only has a few songs that actually "apply" to them.
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Originally Posted by: guitarjanei have just got a band together, trouble is we love loads of different kinds of music, for example, i like chris rea, bon jovi(sometimes), greenday, alkaline trio, queen.I think it is good to do differnt stuff, you will reach more people that way. There will always be some one that thanks you for playing something that turned out to be special to them. Besides who wants to be in a box. U know what they say about playing out of the box. Maybe there's more than one applacation for that statement. Hey play what U play best and keep them dancin and drinkin the club owners will love the business U bring. ;) RTO
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