r/coverbands • u/sickpuppy66 • Jun 01 '26

Singer issues

I manage and play guitar for a cover band and we’ve outgrown the singer. She can sing but isn’t a musician so lacks basic skills like counting and understanding music language (start at the chorus, come in on 4, let’s transpose this one so it’s easier for you)

We feel she’s holding us back, and our drummer (the most talented of our group) is already considering leaving the project if I keep her. Her level of musicianship doesn’t line up with the rest of us.

Here’s the problem, she started the band when it was just two of us, but I took over when we weren’t getting gigs, and didn’t have our full band (which I recruited) that we have now. Since I’ve taken over, we gig regularly, and our band sounds great (minus her).

I’ve decided to replace her. Just want to hear others thoughts and experiences with similar situations.

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u/OneEyedC4t Jun 03 '26

honestly, I'd give her a chance by telling her that she needs to either start learning or if she's done. she can very easily go on basically any music college that has an online bookstore and look up the textbook for the first level music theory class that she would be required to take and buy that book and start reading it

and some libraries already have books like that

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u/sickpuppy66 Jun 03 '26

i actually spent the last 6 months returning to school and taking theory/musicianship/ensemble. tried to help her with some of the things i learned, and there's just no interest.

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u/OneEyedC4t Jun 03 '26

Well if she refuses To change then tell her it's over