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My Band has 3 Guitarists; I need some arragement Ideas
Topic Started: Jun 30 2007, 03:03 PM (704 Views)
DoCtOrD'aMoR	Jun 30 2007, 03:03 PM Post #1
Newbie Posts: 5 Group: Members Member #724 Joined: June 30, 2007	Hi everyone My band has 3 guitarists. One of them is the singer. I need some ideas about how to arrange them so that songs dont sound like a mush of noise. Cheers Dan



Bullet	Jul 1 2007, 05:32 PM Post #2
Admin Posts: 1,912 Group: Admin Member #183 Joined: January 13, 2007	Personally, I think 3 guitarists is too many in a band. But judging on your last post, I'm guessing that your taking influence from Maiden? If so, take a leaf from their book. 2 play that harmony (which I talked about in your last post) and the third rhythm. Try it out



DoCtOrD'aMoR	Jul 2 2007, 11:50 AM Post #3
Newbie Posts: 5 Group: Members Member #724 Joined: June 30, 2007	Yeah thats what we had come up with... I too think that 3 is too many...we are not really influenced by maiden, we are trying to get a sound between Bush and the backyard babies and I was just after any innovative ideas we could experiment with. Thanks anyway Dan



+ Pantera_fan	Jul 3 2007, 06:50 PM Post #4
Retired Posts: 290 Group: Retired Member #745 Joined: July 3, 2007	my band has the same problem, unfortunately we will probably have to add a vocalist over the 5 members already in our band, cos the best singer out of all of us cant sing lol :rolleyes:
	15 years in the academy, he was like no cadet they had ever seen, a man so hard his veins bleed ice when he speaks he never says it twice the call him judge, last name Dredd so break the law and you'll wind up dead!!!


raventt	Jul 23 2007, 08:05 PM Post #5
Member Posts: 21 Group: Members Member #894 Joined: July 23, 2007	its easy if you have no bassist and play quite high on the other guitars. Lame otherwise. But its always tough getting rid of a member, can any of them play anything else?



Mr. Blonde	Jul 29 2007, 11:00 PM Post #6
Member Posts: 32 Group: Members Member #931 Joined: July 29, 2007	If you wish to resort to cheeky deviousness then you could always turn one of the other guitarists amps off. Hell, they used to do it to Sid Vicious, that was because he couldn't play, mind.



FocusShift	Aug 29 2007, 12:30 PM Post #7
Call me Stefan Posts: 396 Group: Moderator Member #1,250 Joined: August 26, 2007	You could always try three-layered harmonies, it might sound cool (off I go to give it a go on Guitar Pro :P) Otherwise as mentioned above, two harmonize lead, the other plays rhythm
	Apex of Extinction (band) [Ex/Im] (Solo) Guitars: Ibanez RG7621 Agile Intrepid Pro 830 8-string Jackson RR3 Amps: Peavey 6505+ Bugera 333XL Peavey 4x12 Other: TC Electronic M300 Rack ISP Decimator


Flying Vee	Sep 4 2007, 03:54 PM Post #8
Weather Presenter Posts: 218 Group: Members Member #1,347 Joined: September 1, 2007	One play lead One play rhythm distorted One play rhythm clean
	Boom Boom


Jakk_Locke	Sep 18 2008, 05:48 PM Post #9
Member Posts: 30 Group: Members Member #8,840 Joined: September 18, 2008	If your singer can't sing and play guitar at the same time, he could just try harmonising when hes not singing
	Jakk locke - More broke than the Lehman Brothers -Basses- Epiphone Blackbird (Soon) -Guitars- Ibanez RGR 420 EX SAR (Izzy) Ibanez RG7321 (Nezzie) Vintage VS9 (Vince) Vintage Reaper With Duncan Distortion bridge (Victor) Yamaha F-310 (Colin) -Amps- Ibanez Toneblaster (Half)Stack Marshall MG15CD Peavy Microbass


roast	Sep 18 2008, 08:30 PM Post #10
Board Lord Posts: 1,965 Group: Co-Admin Member #59 Joined: September 2, 2006	Harmonies, different chord variations...etc. Theres plenty you can do. Experiment! -Mick.


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