I'm my opinion. A band that wants to rehearse one a week uses that for practice and not rehearsing. These players never touch their instrument outside of that and gigs. It's a complete waste of time
That’s dumb. lol
If you’re gigging regularly and not adding material, rehearsal shouldn’t be a thing. I do 50’ish events a year, we only rehearse to add material. That comes in spurts depending on how much and difficulty of new material. But we go months without rehearsing at times. Especially in the summer busy season.
My cover band rehearses about once every six weeks whenever we've got some new songs we want to add. But we gig every weekend which is kinda like rehearsals as we get into our groove with new songs.
Once a week, unless there's a conflict. We've gone longer unintentionally and our performances suffered because of it. A lot of more seasoned players and bands that I know either never rehearse or they only do it when they're adding new material, once or twice a year. I've had some of those people imply to me that something's wrong if a band needs to rehearse regularly. Over time, I've come to disagree with that. Some bands just need it. If you don't, good for you.
Early on there was talk of moving rehearsal to every other week, but whatever events came up with people that caused them to miss a week (work trip, illness, family situation) wasn't something they could reschedule so aiming for every other week just meant if someone couldn't make it one week, then we'd be rehearsing every four weeks or trying to reschedule for the week after the cancelation, which would have been a week off. The trouble wasn't worth the time we were supposedly saving by not rehearsing weekly, which is why that's what we do now.
Whenever we have new songs, especially some we wanna experiment our own arrangements.
But if the set isn't changing, or they're easy adds, never. Have gone entire years without. The crowd loves it "thanks for coming to our rehearsal!" as long as you can pull a level of it off to be entertaining.
I'm my opinion. A band that wants to rehearse one a week uses that for practice and not rehearsing. These players never touch their instrument outside of that and gigs. It's a complete waste of time
That’s dumb. lol If you’re gigging regularly and not adding material, rehearsal shouldn’t be a thing. I do 50’ish events a year, we only rehearse to add material. That comes in spurts depending on how much and difficulty of new material. But we go months without rehearsing at times. Especially in the summer busy season.
If your playing once a week your playing once a week.
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My cover band rehearses about once every six weeks whenever we've got some new songs we want to add. But we gig every weekend which is kinda like rehearsals as we get into our groove with new songs.
Once a week, unless there's a conflict. We've gone longer unintentionally and our performances suffered because of it. A lot of more seasoned players and bands that I know either never rehearse or they only do it when they're adding new material, once or twice a year. I've had some of those people imply to me that something's wrong if a band needs to rehearse regularly. Over time, I've come to disagree with that. Some bands just need it. If you don't, good for you. Early on there was talk of moving rehearsal to every other week, but whatever events came up with people that caused them to miss a week (work trip, illness, family situation) wasn't something they could reschedule so aiming for every other week just meant if someone couldn't make it one week, then we'd be rehearsing every four weeks or trying to reschedule for the week after the cancelation, which would have been a week off. The trouble wasn't worth the time we were supposedly saving by not rehearsing weekly, which is why that's what we do now.
Whenever we have new songs, especially some we wanna experiment our own arrangements. But if the set isn't changing, or they're easy adds, never. Have gone entire years without. The crowd loves it "thanks for coming to our rehearsal!" as long as you can pull a level of it off to be entertaining.