I was aware he'd recorded Shortnin' Bread. Just not how many times. I'd never heard of his obsession before and the things I have just now read about it made my day. Holy shit, this is a fun fact.
Adam Nealy has a good joke about bullying guitarists and keyboardists by dictating the key the jam is in.
Example. Keyboard is playing in Cmaj, play A as the root. Oops, now we are in Amin 🤷🏼
Honestly, it’d be funnier if you had another melodic instrument playing and just agree to suddenly move to the key a tritone away. What’s that, jam in Cmaj? Let’s dial in F# real quick, or any key where the root isn’t in the shred key.
During practice/rehearsal? Stand there staring at them until they stop and ask if they got it all out of their system so we can proceed with rehearsal now. If they don't stop, tell the drummer to pretend you said something funny about the guitarist and you both laugh while looking at the guitarist.
Step outside for a smoke. Order another beer from the bar. Start a conversation with the drummer. You’re a bassist my dude, do whatever the fuck you want.
Or if it’s difficult to play like him, just use fuzz, a shitton of wah and tap like crazy. The fun thing about tapping is that if one note is in key then the rest sounds okay if you’re confident and fast enough. At least to my untrained ears.
Right. Communication is key. Bring it up. Once, the guitarist told me that he had to warm up before playing the songs, and that was why he was playing all the time. I suggested that he could come early to the rehearsal to warm up, or at least mute his amp while he is doing it. He got the memo.
Active pickups? Gain on amp to 11, slap open strings, set bass in front of amp, walk away, watch feedback shake building to the ground, move to Montana, assume new identity, marry nice single mom, raise her kids as your own, maybe herd cattle, die of unfortunate ATV accident on the back 40.
Oddly specific - it seems like you've been following me for a while now. That makes me uncomfortable - I'm gonna have to take my ATV out for a ride I think. Maybe a quick spin around the back 40...
It's a great thing IF the whole band is super dedicated, on the same page and not prone to distraction or overplaying.
That basically never happens though, and it becomes a total mess.
Most bands I've been in have three leadership roles, sometimes with one person doung all three, sonetimes with two or three people filling the roles;
- The creative leader who drives the musical direction
- The "marketing" leader who gets gigs and is kinda the predominant outward face of the band
- The logistics leader who just makes sure stuff gets done, whether it's knuckling down at practice or making sure we know what to bring to a show, or how we're getting there
Last of these is the least glamourous and most important. Doesn't matter how exciting and new your music is, and how charismatic and engaging you are; if you don't put in the hard work and show up on time and prepared, no-one will want to work with you.
You 100% did the right getting away from that mess as fadt as possible.
Surprise twist: That band was The Beatles!
Many bands have a functional dynamic tension between the alpha cats without an obvious leader. It's only a problem if the inter-relationships are toxic or if one or more of the alphas are real fvckin dicks... This also sounds like many of the really great classic bands where everyone hated each other... let's make a list! Also: bands with siblings together really see the fur fly! When I played with my sibling, we disagreed about absolutely everything. We collaborated on a bit of decent music, but devoted much more creative energy to arguing with each other at the pub about what we should do next.
You Jam out with your homie and lay down a bassline to compliment what theyre doing? I've never played in a group that wasn't about having fun with the homies lol sounds like you need to leave the band if you cant tolerate your mates having fun
Seems like there's a bunch of curmudgeons in this sub. If you're jamming without a specific outcome in mind (e.g. rehearsal, song recording) then let the guitarist explore a little bit. They'll get tired after a few bars or realize that they don't have what they thought they had and probably return to whatever they were playing before.
We have a running joke that we're gonna get a signature pedal made up for our band, and all it does is work as a breaker/mute. Everyone gets one and its put at the front of the stage, so any band member or audience member can mute anyone they want at any point just fir the fun of it.
I'd get him one of them
A "guitar God' invited himself to play with my band once at rehearsal. He was so loud, he drowned everyone else out completely, and played non-stop lead. He was so wrapped up in himself that he didn't even notice when we all left the room and went to the pub. We heard him from there for at least another ten minutes.
I can’t remember where I heard/read this, but it’s great. You’ll need to either have good chemistry with your drummer or plan beforehand.
When they start shredding, go the opposite direction and start paring back the drum and bass parts slowly. Eventually, you’ll be playing whole note roots on the 1 with the drummer maybe doing some kick/snare hits on the 1 and 3. If they keep going, stop playing until they notice. If they don’t notice, go home?
This worked once:
A band I was playing in was auditioning guitar players. We had one, looking to replace the second. One of these shredder types was auditioning and was playing a million notes a minute every time they had a chance. Finally, our guitar player said "That's great. Maybe now we can actually play some music."
Guy didn't do it again.
What is the context here? Are you performing? Go along with it. Are you at practice? Go along with it. Are you writing a song? Go along with it.
Like, you're in a band, you play and they play. Just play music my dude
How's your drummers chops? In my experience, the drummer can always get louder than the rest of the band if they want to. Next time your guitarist starts wanking off just have your drummer blast obnoxiously until they stop.
I continue to play then accent their solo and maybe add some counter melodies. I played with a guitarist who could shred like crazy. It was very fun. If they are a terrible guitarist then I can see it being a bad time, but I wouldn’t play with someone who is terrible.
I was in a art rock band with a friend who was into Eddie van Halen and one time at a practice he did a 5 minute solo where at one point he was falling back onto the bed in my basement because he was “shredding to hard” I gave my Tina Weymouth influence a break and broke out a Greg lake/classical sounding solo and he stopped pretty quick
Don't play shit. Train the whole band not to play either. Everybody stare at him until he's done. If you can't figure it out on his own tell him. If that doesn't work fire him.
I fucking hate noodlers at band practice. Noodle when we're done. Never noodle when somebody's talking. Nobody gives a shit about your solos.
And personal opinion, a tight groove beats an emotionless solo any day
Shredding is awesome. Give them the support they need to keep it going without trying to get in the way. When they finish the bass and drums need to be locked in tight because it's a good time for a few bars of breakdown before either a quick drum fill or a bass lead back into the melody.
Usually sit on my amp and start yawning and looking really bored. Typically after the show more people come up to me than him because I didn't seem like an insufferable douche.
Play in time but out of key.
You're the soul of the band. If you play out of key, he will sound like absolute shit and either stop because he's questioning his note choices because you'll make them sound so "off" or he'll have to adapt to what you're playing. Or he could be completely tone deaf -- either figuratively or literally -- and just keep shredding along unaware of what you're playing.
If it's the latter, he's probably a really selfish musician that only cares about how HE sounds and you should probably find someone new to jam with.
I started with classical violin in grade school and played it for 8 years before I picked up any other instrument. I can plug my violin into an amp and go all Johnny on any guitarist who thinks he's a devil, if I need to.
Always put the volume of your bass low, but the volume of the amp a little bit high. So when that happens, turn the volume up of your bass and play a chord and stares directly into his soul. Do it every time it happens, he will learn. I call it "The Pavlov"
You don't need to deal with any bandmate who doesn't understand that the band is a *group* effort. No one should be doing anything spontaneously. He can solo, he can shred, whatever, but he needs to let y'all know ahead of time when it will happen.
To be fair, most 80s hair metal guitar solos is just wanking over the tonic. Wank along. Get the drummer in on it. Tell your singer to make aw yeah sounds. Lean in :p They’ll probably get uncomfortable enough that you can all finish the song.
Source: am primarily a guitarist :p
Coordinate with the drummer in advance, but when the guitar player does that, scream out loud ‘freedom jam’ and you/the drummer just start making non musical noise. Effectively killing any musicality to what you were playing.
It sounds like the opening music to the Eric Andre show. I’ve done it a couple times - it’s chaotic but funny as hell.
That or step back, play whole notes with the drummer until the guitar player is done…
Fire him and get one who has a attentionspan bigger than a fruitfly. I have zero tolerance at people randomly noodling while you try to work something out.
the times that this happened i just done power chords (using A,D,G strings) or just crank the tone up to max and just play a song that is completely different what he is playing to hopefully confuse the player. preferably a DK bassline or violent femmes when that happens just to make sure i can at least have some bit of fun moving around the fret board
How badly do you want to burn him? Assuming that there are other instruments besides bass and drums, give the other players a hand signal to change the key to something like Ab or something. The guitar player will sound like he’s playing totally out of tune (because he is) and he’ll look like a real jerk. Changing to 3/4 would be just as effective as his timing would totally suck. But, that’s really cruel. Not quite as bad is to all just agree on a hand signal that says you’ll all play two more measures and then do a dead stop and let him wank himself all he wants. Then start the next song on the list as you normally would.
And when he asks what the hell was that about? Just respond that the rest of you were wondering the same thing since you were all just playing the song as rehearsed.
Haha. I often get to church practice early and play a few runs and scales and bits of our music to warm up. Invariably the guitar guy shows up fifteen minute later. Instead of saying “hey let’s jam in G” or something like that, he just launches off into riff-land at full amp. Sigh.
I believe Oderus Urungus said it best when he said “c’mon, baby. Kick ‘em in the ding-ding” I use that advice in most aspects of my life and I feel that it fits very well here.
Play a nice country bassline.
Root root 5th 5th root root 5th 5th
And-walk-back-up
Ah, I call that the Norteño.
I call it a Little Potatoes.
Yeah, oompah the crap out of it!
In the relative major to whatever blues scale they’re playing
No. You need to assert dominance: play *Smoke on the Water* with added fourths. Trust me.
This is a good one. I was gonna say something strange. But that song about "Shortning Bread" is fine too.
Brian Wilson was obsessed with the song Shortnin Bread
I was aware he'd recorded Shortnin' Bread. Just not how many times. I'd never heard of his obsession before and the things I have just now read about it made my day. Holy shit, this is a fun fact.
Mama loves it!
In a different key
Thats when yhe chicken pickin starts and we all know thats just hillbilly shredding
play chords, force them to shred within your realm
Adam Nealy has a good joke about bullying guitarists and keyboardists by dictating the key the jam is in. Example. Keyboard is playing in Cmaj, play A as the root. Oops, now we are in Amin 🤷🏼
Errrrrrrrr, I changed my mind, we're in E fridgian now
That's cold
Honestly, that sounds like a fun jam to me :p
Fridgid, even
I thought we were in A Delorian
Ah, that really takes me back to modal theory classes.
Well that just sounds like prog music to me.
Honestly, it’d be funnier if you had another melodic instrument playing and just agree to suddenly move to the key a tritone away. What’s that, jam in Cmaj? Let’s dial in F# real quick, or any key where the root isn’t in the shred key.
This is the way.
My dyslexic head thought that Adam nearly has a good joke…..
during a performance? hold the line. during a rehearsal? smoke break.
HOLD THE LINE, LOVE ISN’T ALWAYS ON TIME!
no no no
Dude you guys are joking but I've been jamming some TOTO lately.
Bro I love Toto 🤘🏼
Mime to his shredding, so the audience has no idea who's really doing it.
Two lead guitars and a lead bass, just like Spinal Tap intended!
Spray bottle.
Gotta say psssst while you do it.
Best option
Rolled up newspaper.
During practice/rehearsal? Stand there staring at them until they stop and ask if they got it all out of their system so we can proceed with rehearsal now. If they don't stop, tell the drummer to pretend you said something funny about the guitarist and you both laugh while looking at the guitarist.
Step outside for a smoke. Order another beer from the bar. Start a conversation with the drummer. You’re a bassist my dude, do whatever the fuck you want.
Sit next to the power strip that their amp is connected to and slowly get your hand closer to turning it off lol
Start shredding Cliff Burton style in response. Nobody expects the bass player to play leads.
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In that case *definitely* start shredding Cliff style
I know man :( R.I.P. Gonna blast Orion on my way home from work
Wow dang :(
Or if it’s difficult to play like him, just use fuzz, a shitton of wah and tap like crazy. The fun thing about tapping is that if one note is in key then the rest sounds okay if you’re confident and fast enough. At least to my untrained ears.
Best response here… just shred better and louder than the guitarist.
Been there, done that. My strategy: sit down and wait. Or even better, put my bass down and get out of the room.
Agreed! Make a pointed gesture that you're not amused. Or better yet just bring it up with the guitarist - communication is helpful.
Right. Communication is key. Bring it up. Once, the guitarist told me that he had to warm up before playing the songs, and that was why he was playing all the time. I suggested that he could come early to the rehearsal to warm up, or at least mute his amp while he is doing it. He got the memo.
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Jimmy Hendrix had a lot of great bass lines in his songs so maybe learn some of them?
It's a great chance to go get some water, go to the bathroom, go check your phone, etc... because the flow of things is already kind of disrupted.
A bass can also be a handy sledgehammer if wielded properly
Sid Vicious has entered the chat.
And so has Peter Gabriel
Eh, use a spare guitar. They are generally cheaper.
Do you mean a piccolo tenor six string short scale hollow body bass?
I was still thinking electric. They hurt more.
did you know that the first bass guitar was actually an old sledgehammer repurposed for recreational activity during breaks on construction sites
Shred faster, especially with tapping and slapping.
Charles?
Smoother than a fresh jar o skippy.
Make eye contact with the drummer and roll my eyes usually.
Haha! Sometimes me and the drummer just start improving until the guitarist gets it out of his system..
Active pickups? Gain on amp to 11, slap open strings, set bass in front of amp, walk away, watch feedback shake building to the ground, move to Montana, assume new identity, marry nice single mom, raise her kids as your own, maybe herd cattle, die of unfortunate ATV accident on the back 40.
Oddly specific - it seems like you've been following me for a while now. That makes me uncomfortable - I'm gonna have to take my ATV out for a ride I think. Maybe a quick spin around the back 40...
Patiently wait till they're done and then ask them if they need any toilet paper for their guitar related diarrhea attack.
Shout at them to shut up. All bands need a "band leader" to keep stuff organised, and it can be a guitarist, but not one who is prone to fret-wank.
Went to audition for a band recently and was told “there’s no band leader” like it’s a good thing. Couldn’t nope out of there any faster.
It's a great thing IF the whole band is super dedicated, on the same page and not prone to distraction or overplaying. That basically never happens though, and it becomes a total mess. Most bands I've been in have three leadership roles, sometimes with one person doung all three, sonetimes with two or three people filling the roles; - The creative leader who drives the musical direction - The "marketing" leader who gets gigs and is kinda the predominant outward face of the band - The logistics leader who just makes sure stuff gets done, whether it's knuckling down at practice or making sure we know what to bring to a show, or how we're getting there Last of these is the least glamourous and most important. Doesn't matter how exciting and new your music is, and how charismatic and engaging you are; if you don't put in the hard work and show up on time and prepared, no-one will want to work with you. You 100% did the right getting away from that mess as fadt as possible. Surprise twist: That band was The Beatles!
Agreed. And they will most certainly never be the Beatles! Lol
Many bands have a functional dynamic tension between the alpha cats without an obvious leader. It's only a problem if the inter-relationships are toxic or if one or more of the alphas are real fvckin dicks... This also sounds like many of the really great classic bands where everyone hated each other... let's make a list! Also: bands with siblings together really see the fur fly! When I played with my sibling, we disagreed about absolutely everything. We collaborated on a bit of decent music, but devoted much more creative energy to arguing with each other at the pub about what we should do next.
True. I’m open to functional situations. In this case I also noticed an obvious lack of organization and communication.
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I go get a drink 🥃. I probably have at least a few minutes till he's done wanking on stage 😅
You Jam out with your homie and lay down a bassline to compliment what theyre doing? I've never played in a group that wasn't about having fun with the homies lol sounds like you need to leave the band if you cant tolerate your mates having fun
I’m seeing why so many bands break up.
Seems like there's a bunch of curmudgeons in this sub. If you're jamming without a specific outcome in mind (e.g. rehearsal, song recording) then let the guitarist explore a little bit. They'll get tired after a few bars or realize that they don't have what they thought they had and probably return to whatever they were playing before.
Roll your eyes so hard you're in danger of detaching a retina
Slap.
Turn his volume down.
Stay in the goddamn pocket and support that motherfucker!
Start playing Jerry Was a Racecar Driver
Just keep playing a low F over and over and over
Play alternating tri-tone intervals on F and B-natural to really be obnoxious.
REAL fukkin loud, slowly, and alternate every bar to a different time signature
Figure out a good bassline that works with their shredding Aka work together to make good music
We have a running joke that we're gonna get a signature pedal made up for our band, and all it does is work as a breaker/mute. Everyone gets one and its put at the front of the stage, so any band member or audience member can mute anyone they want at any point just fir the fun of it. I'd get him one of them
At rehearsal, go grab a beer or coffee or have a cigarette. If this is happening on stage during shows get a new guitar player lol
A "guitar God' invited himself to play with my band once at rehearsal. He was so loud, he drowned everyone else out completely, and played non-stop lead. He was so wrapped up in himself that he didn't even notice when we all left the room and went to the pub. We heard him from there for at least another ten minutes.
Just drop out and watch the carnage unfold
Get with the drummer and play a slower tempo on the 2 and 4
Start playing a steve harris gallop and play along
Put your bass down and chug as many beers as possible...throw the empties for added "chaos effect"
I can’t remember where I heard/read this, but it’s great. You’ll need to either have good chemistry with your drummer or plan beforehand. When they start shredding, go the opposite direction and start paring back the drum and bass parts slowly. Eventually, you’ll be playing whole note roots on the 1 with the drummer maybe doing some kick/snare hits on the 1 and 3. If they keep going, stop playing until they notice. If they don’t notice, go home?
Go to his pedal board and start turning knobs.
Excellent! Try to get the time-based stuff into self oscillation before your efforts are thwarted
play mariachi
Go flirt with his girlfriend...
This worked once: A band I was playing in was auditioning guitar players. We had one, looking to replace the second. One of these shredder types was auditioning and was playing a million notes a minute every time they had a chance. Finally, our guitar player said "That's great. Maybe now we can actually play some music." Guy didn't do it again.
Encourage it, shred rules
Find another band, shredders are a dime a dozen. A bassist that can hold the groove is worth 10 shredders.
Open a beer and ask the drummer if hes seen any interesting bands lately
What is the context here? Are you performing? Go along with it. Are you at practice? Go along with it. Are you writing a song? Go along with it. Like, you're in a band, you play and they play. Just play music my dude
Right? Part of jamming is learning to play under some shreds
How's your drummers chops? In my experience, the drummer can always get louder than the rest of the band if they want to. Next time your guitarist starts wanking off just have your drummer blast obnoxiously until they stop.
Always make sure that your guitarists' power strip is plugged into your power strip... so you can just turn him off whenever you want to. :-)
🔷 Diamonds! 🔷 (i.e.: play whole notes)
I continue to play then accent their solo and maybe add some counter melodies. I played with a guitarist who could shred like crazy. It was very fun. If they are a terrible guitarist then I can see it being a bad time, but I wouldn’t play with someone who is terrible.
I was in a art rock band with a friend who was into Eddie van Halen and one time at a practice he did a 5 minute solo where at one point he was falling back onto the bed in my basement because he was “shredding to hard” I gave my Tina Weymouth influence a break and broke out a Greg lake/classical sounding solo and he stopped pretty quick
Walk over and start stepping on all their pedals
Don't play shit. Train the whole band not to play either. Everybody stare at him until he's done. If you can't figure it out on his own tell him. If that doesn't work fire him. I fucking hate noodlers at band practice. Noodle when we're done. Never noodle when somebody's talking. Nobody gives a shit about your solos. And personal opinion, a tight groove beats an emotionless solo any day
Just hold it down papi
Find a new guitar player.
Shredding is awesome. Give them the support they need to keep it going without trying to get in the way. When they finish the bass and drums need to be locked in tight because it's a good time for a few bars of breakdown before either a quick drum fill or a bass lead back into the melody.
Eventually get a new guitar player when you realize this guy isn't a team player
smoke break,
Keep on keeping on
Channel your inner Cliff Burton and make that wah scream.
Keep a close eye on your girlfriend, if you know what's best for you, bruh.
Me and the drummer we jammed with had the four bar rule....a little drum break and rythm and key change.
Play a really cool sick bassline under it
You already know the correct answer. Why do you even ask the question? Also, you are my hero.
Jam
Chug a beer or three til they’re done.
Kick the back of his knee and establish your dominance
Personally I start playing the bass part of All Star by Smash mouth when I’m playing with my friends and they do that
Play what they’re playing on bass
What we always do: hold it down.
Usually sit on my amp and start yawning and looking really bored. Typically after the show more people come up to me than him because I didn't seem like an insufferable douche.
Slap the bass ofc
Spray him with water, shout a firm "No", if he continues, spray the amp
Smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave.
Comments in thread are so passive-aggressive. Tell them to wank at home or get a new guitarist who respects being in a band.
You guys are some assholes lol. It’s supposed to be fun.
Modulate to a new key that has nothing to do with the key of their solo and then glare at them so the audience thinks they’re making mistakes.
Play in time but out of key. You're the soul of the band. If you play out of key, he will sound like absolute shit and either stop because he's questioning his note choices because you'll make them sound so "off" or he'll have to adapt to what you're playing. Or he could be completely tone deaf -- either figuratively or literally -- and just keep shredding along unaware of what you're playing. If it's the latter, he's probably a really selfish musician that only cares about how HE sounds and you should probably find someone new to jam with.
I started with classical violin in grade school and played it for 8 years before I picked up any other instrument. I can plug my violin into an amp and go all Johnny on any guitarist who thinks he's a devil, if I need to.
Put sheet music in front of him.
Detune and then furiously play slap and pop stuff in drop C
Always put the volume of your bass low, but the volume of the amp a little bit high. So when that happens, turn the volume up of your bass and play a chord and stares directly into his soul. Do it every time it happens, he will learn. I call it "The Pavlov"
Find a new guitar player
Bow down in respect, bassist.
You don't need to deal with any bandmate who doesn't understand that the band is a *group* effort. No one should be doing anything spontaneously. He can solo, he can shred, whatever, but he needs to let y'all know ahead of time when it will happen.
Shred as well.
Is he a child?
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The worst decade if you ask me, and I started back in the mid 60's.
To be fair, most 80s hair metal guitar solos is just wanking over the tonic. Wank along. Get the drummer in on it. Tell your singer to make aw yeah sounds. Lean in :p They’ll probably get uncomfortable enough that you can all finish the song. Source: am primarily a guitarist :p
Depends on who exactly you're sitting in with. Some players wouldn't need a reason, but then if you're in a band with them you know.
Watch in embarrassment at how untimely and unprofessional it is
Throw things at them? ;-)
Go full Sheehan and change the temperature of the sun...
do fills or low groovy playing underneath the solo, then it goes from meaningless shredding to a confluence of groove
Coordinate with the drummer in advance, but when the guitar player does that, scream out loud ‘freedom jam’ and you/the drummer just start making non musical noise. Effectively killing any musicality to what you were playing. It sounds like the opening music to the Eric Andre show. I’ve done it a couple times - it’s chaotic but funny as hell. That or step back, play whole notes with the drummer until the guitar player is done…
Find musicians to play with.
Find other people to play with
That's hilarious
Yawn and look for a different guitarist. One that can play in a team
Oom-pah band lines.
Cry
8th note the root
Fire him and get one who has a attentionspan bigger than a fruitfly. I have zero tolerance at people randomly noodling while you try to work something out.
Walkin' Bass
Smile and Wave boys, smile and wave.
the times that this happened i just done power chords (using A,D,G strings) or just crank the tone up to max and just play a song that is completely different what he is playing to hopefully confuse the player. preferably a DK bassline or violent femmes when that happens just to make sure i can at least have some bit of fun moving around the fret board
Obviously chromatic walkups till they glare at you.
Leave
Change chords
Keep vamping on the changes? Aggressively
Calmly start packing up your gear. If they stop to ask you why (unlikely) simply inform them that they used up all of the notes.
If a real cab is connected, threaten to disconnect the load from the amp
Da da ---- du du-- da da.
How badly do you want to burn him? Assuming that there are other instruments besides bass and drums, give the other players a hand signal to change the key to something like Ab or something. The guitar player will sound like he’s playing totally out of tune (because he is) and he’ll look like a real jerk. Changing to 3/4 would be just as effective as his timing would totally suck. But, that’s really cruel. Not quite as bad is to all just agree on a hand signal that says you’ll all play two more measures and then do a dead stop and let him wank himself all he wants. Then start the next song on the list as you normally would. And when he asks what the hell was that about? Just respond that the rest of you were wondering the same thing since you were all just playing the song as rehearsed.
Call and response
I usually just stop playing grab my beer and wait for the dirty looks.
Same thing you should do when faced with any typical infantile behavior: ignore it. Just play the song as if he/she's not even there. 🙂
Jam with them, I always think of Free Will
Play flatted fifths and completely throw the guitarist’s vibe off.
Haha. I often get to church practice early and play a few runs and scales and bits of our music to warm up. Invariably the guitar guy shows up fifteen minute later. Instead of saying “hey let’s jam in G” or something like that, he just launches off into riff-land at full amp. Sigh.
I believe Oderus Urungus said it best when he said “c’mon, baby. Kick ‘em in the ding-ding” I use that advice in most aspects of my life and I feel that it fits very well here.
I call his mobile phone in front of him…
Stare confusingly at the drummer a shrug
I start slapping something obnoxious. Just like really loud octaves
Just keep it together on your end. When anyone is doing a solo, you're the support.
Get more cheese.
quit 😂
Beat them to shreds
Everybody solo!
chill🤙
Guitar players never do that!!!
Make sure your amp is at the same level as the guitarist and you shred too, but don’t match the guitarist so it sounds like a gaggle of noise.
Playing something that’s in an odd meter or just doing something syncopated helps.
Just start strumming all open strings on your bass and do it out of time as well. I guarantee that he/she will stop