Monday, July 4, 2011

Bass player very unhappy in my band feels like he's not contributing how to get him feeling positive?

In my band I sing and play guitar. I write pretty much all our songs.
My drummer obviously writes the drum parts and my lead guitarist gels
with me really well and improves my songs by offering advice on
something I could change and coming up with parts of his own.
My bassist on the other hand always ends up playing the same thing as
me. He is getting really frustrated and blames it on me saying my
songs have no space for basslines. I think he will leave soon and it
could be the end of our band how do I get him back on board? I can't
write bass lines for him (tried it, he wasn't happy) but if he keeps
having to play the same thing as me he's gonna get bored and leave.
Also he is starting to refuse to play the riffs I have for songs and
plays things that don't fit just so he isn't playing the guitar part
on bass, ruins the songs. What to do?

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