7 Problems Only Drummers Would Understand

Scan any number of adverts pinned up in music shops and you're likely to find hundreds of people looking for drummers. The same goes for those 'Musicians Wanted' posts you can find online, and this is mainly because a great drum kit player is genuinely hard to find.

Yet, those same drummer-seeking potential band mates are only too happy to poke fun at their stick-wielding friends-to-be; if you're not hearing the same old tired jokes (that everybody - even the bass player - sees fit to laugh at), you're expected to cart around more equipment than everyone else.

Don't worry drummers, we feel your pain, especially when you're also expected to play wingman for fellow bandmates out on the pull.

Occasionally, you'll hear those aforementioned bassists whinging about a lack of attention, but such complaints pale in comparison to the ones a drummer could whine about.

Drummers and bassists do have something in common though, and that's an intense hatred of singers and guitarists which develops over time.

How dare they scoop up all the spotlight, don't they know drummers are people too?!

When a guitarist complains about carting their amp and instrument to the gig, it should be 100% legal for a drummer to punch them right in the face. Sure, you have a guitar and amplifier, but you don't have to keep an eye on countless drums, cymbals and tiny screws that could easily go missing.

Every drummer inevitably comes up against those whinging bandmates who don't see the irony of their complaints; those singers are the worst too, flicking their mop-like hair to the side and waxing lyrical about the woes of carrying one small bag containing a microphone.

By comparison to everybody else in the band, the poor drummer would have to hit the weights should they have any hopes of using all that beloved gear they shelled out thousands to own.

The worst is when other bandmates glare upon being asked to help unload drums into the gig, as though it's heresy that they be asked to carry the lowly drummer's kit in for them.

Oh woe is you, singer, but your tiny mic doesn't equate to heavy-set shells or concrete-like bass drums.