What is the optimal amount members for a band? How many is too many?
What is the optimal amount members for a band? How many is too many?
Kevin Bennett
Brandon Barnes
5 members is usually ideal for a fully fleshed out sound.
>singer/rhythm guitar
>lead guitar
>bass guitar
>drums
>auxiliary
Lucas Anderson
depends on what kind of music you like and want to make. I'd prefer 6 or 7. but there have been a lot of great 3 and 4-piece bands.
Parker Sanchez
5 but if you have a rhythm guitarist your music is shit
Jackson Butler
Rush, Cream, and ELP were both three pieces and had varied and dynamic sounds, while The Who and Led Zeppelin basically had the same lineup but got an extra dude for vocals.
It depends how much you want each specific person to do. With one guitarist, they need to play lead and rhythm at the same time, whereas having two eliminates that. With folk, having multiple interweaving leads works well too. You could do what The Doors did and drop the bassist and get a keyboard player, who can do bass with left hand / feet and alternate between rhythm and lead with the right hand.
Basically, you can mix and match. They Might Be Giants had a fucking accordian player and a guitar player,and used a prerecorded drum track
Charles Allen
Currently playing in a band with 8 people:
Singer/rhythm guitar
Lead guitar
Bass guitar
Two drummers
Keyboards
Two backup singers
Honestly I alternate between thinking it sounds totally overloaded or that it's actually the perfect number of people
Dominic Sanchez
Bump
Cooper Wilson
11
>Singer
>Guitarist
>Bassist
>Drummer
>Keyboardist
>Two Trumpets
>Two Trombones
>Tenor Sax
>Bari Sax
Christian Howard
It's 8
>vocalist
>guitar
>guitar
>bass
>drummer
>auxillary dummer
>sampler
>turntablist
Parker Hill
4 is perfect. Bonus if the singer can play guitar. 5 usually becomes too diluted unless one guy is writing all the songs. 3 is too limited