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Counts
- Thread starter Squirrel Man
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Dumpy
DFO Veteran
See? If you ended with a starter pistol, that would be an epic count out! More-er pro-er than EV-ER.Number 1?
Number 2?
Number 1-2-3-4 !!!
funkypoodle
DFO Veteran
It goes 3,4,1....then you stop and explain the exact value of the pick up to your guitarist 
If a 4/4 tune has a melody based on eighth notes I count 1 2 1234 to save confusion. The 1 2 is the tempo of the 1/4 notes and the 1234 that of the eighth notes.
(Once a band leader counted in 1234 to one such song and I started playing twice as fast as everyone else, assuming 1/4 notes were being represented. Very embarrassing.)
(Once a band leader counted in 1234 to one such song and I started playing twice as fast as everyone else, assuming 1/4 notes were being represented. Very embarrassing.)
I once had a guitarist who couldn’t follow such a count in and banned me from doing it. Said I had to count in 1234 for everything because he couldn’t “handle numbers” FFS !It goes 3,4,1....then you stop and explain the exact value of the pick up to your guitarist
He also instructed everyone except me to stop counting to themselves during tunes because “if you count you end up making mistakes”. He insisted the drummer count, though, in order to cue in all the other players.
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funkypoodle
DFO Veteran
I hope he wasn't the one paying the band after gigs...
It's always a guitarist.... Always.
Unfortunately he was
And then there are the choreographers:
”5,6,7,8”
”5,6,7,8”
