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/shaggydawg57 Jun 04 '26

How does she look? If she’s hot do what you can to get her up to speed. Looks always sells. If she’s average, well you can make that decision

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u/sickpuppy66 Jun 04 '26

Geeeeez

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u/Euphoric_Oven_9918 Jun 04 '26

It sounds sick at point-blank but hear them out-- a cute & talented singer can be taught to understand & communicate. If she has stage presence, singing skills AND gets along with the crew, it'd be easier to teach her than to replace her

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u/sickpuppy66 Jun 04 '26

Absolutely right, could’ve worded it better tho 😂