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What's your favorite group configuration?


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After my experience of the last ten year, it's very hard for me to play in a band where not everyone can sing.

 

I love lush vocal harmonies.

 

For rock, I like Keys, Guitar, Bass, Drums.

 

For Funk, I like two keys players, horns, a couple guitars, bass and drums... maybe a percussion player as well.

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Right now I play in various groups:

 

I play orchestral keys (string bass, strings, ect.), as well as piano in a 40-50 piece Concert Band

Piano/keys in a Jazz Band (15-20 players in all)

As well as playing all keyboard parts in a Rock/cover group - lots of parts to cover, and I'd love another keyboard player, but the grass always seems to be greener...

 

All of them are great gigs, and love experimenting with sounds!

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My playing style always fit in well with a keys/bass/guitar/drum combo. That way I'm not stepping on the rhythm guitarist.

 

A female vocalist and sax player are bonuses.

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After my experience of the last ten year, it's very hard for me to play in a band where not everyone can sing.

 

I love lush vocal harmonies.

 

For rock, I like Keys, Guitar, Bass, Drums.

 

For Funk, I like two keys players, horns, a couple guitars, bass and drums... maybe a percussion player as well.

 

+1

 

It is nice to play in a band where several players double on vocals. Nothing beats having those harmonies.

 

As much as a power trio or Drum/Bass/Guit/Key quartet saves on the pocketbook, I sure would love to have a group with Drums, bass, guitar and two keys. If the 2nd key player doubled on something (guitar, horn, percussion), that would be gravy.

 

I'm searching for that elusive female keyboard player who doubles on something else and sings.

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I try to avoid combos with >1 guitarist and any guitar player who favors that high gain overdrive that smothers the spectrum. I'm playing piano/guitar in a Skynyrd cover band but the guitar players are conscious of making space for the piano which is rare to come by. My other band is a jazz band at work piano/drums/bass/trumpet.
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In the country band I play in it's:

 

Guitar

Bass/vocals

Keyboards/ vocals

Drums

 

In the classic rock band it's:

 

Guitar/vocals

Bass

Keyboards/vocals

Drums/vocals

Singer

 

My favorite lineup for a band that I played with in the past:

 

Guitar/Bass/vocals

Lead guitar/bass/vocals

Keyboard/guitar/bass/vocals

Keyboard/guitar/vocals

Drums

 

Lot of versatility in that band as we swapped up to do whatever genre of music we wanted to.

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Thats a great question..Im in South Fl..anything goes here, so there are sometimes surprises aplenty. Solo, to any config up to big band. Im fortunate in that all the calls I get are jazz things. Whether its "cocktal jazz","show jazz" or out n out playing depends, most are out n out. So its hard to answer as I enjoy different configs depending on the players. I really like sax quartets plus percussionist..or trumpet/sax quint..or add a killer vocalist..or 3 horns, vox plus perc, or..trio, or duo..shoot I dont care, I just love to play. I adjust myself

to different situations n have fun.

 

Do you run into a lot of U of Miami players gigging around town(s)? They have a very good music department.

 

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