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Rehearsal
This is where you will be spending most of your time, in rehearsal. If you want to take what you do seriously, then you need to practice for at least 3 hours a week, and more if you can manage it. Obviously, you need to practice as much individually before each rehearsal. This will save you time and money, and if you have jobs or find it difficult to all be free at the same time, the period you set aside for rehearsal could be your only chance each week to really progress. Trust me; there is nothing worse than writing a song and still not having it finished three months later. Make sure that when you leave rehearsal, everyone knows what they are doing so they can practice on their own, so that the next rehearsal starts where the last one left off, not 2 hours and a working bass line before.
At the start, rehearsals should be run like school. Lateness is the most annoying thing, similarly, people turning up with the wrong attitude. It sounds sad but it’s true. After you have some songs together and have started to experience the difficult-to-describe relationship of being in a band then it will be easier to let things go. But always remember that without some good songs and a steely determination you are no one. But when you have all that under your belt, and maybe a few gigs too, you can relax a little knowing that even if you aren’t signed to a major label yet, you have still achieved something. Until then though, head down.
This is where you will be spending most of your time, in rehearsal. If you want to take what you do seriously, then you need to practice for at least 3 hours a week, and more if you can manage it. Obviously, you need to practice as much individually before each rehearsal. This will save you time and money, and if you have jobs or find it difficult to all be free at the same time, the period you set aside for rehearsal could be your only chance each week to really progress. Trust me; there is nothing worse than writing a song and still not having it finished three months later. Make sure that when you leave rehearsal, everyone knows what they are doing so they can practice on their own, so that the next rehearsal starts where the last one left off, not 2 hours and a working bass line before.
At the start, rehearsals should be run like school. Lateness is the most annoying thing, similarly, people turning up with the wrong attitude. It sounds sad but it’s true. After you have some songs together and have started to experience the difficult-to-describe relationship of being in a band then it will be easier to let things go. But always remember that without some good songs and a steely determination you are no one. But when you have all that under your belt, and maybe a few gigs too, you can relax a little knowing that even if you aren’t signed to a major label yet, you have still achieved something. Until then though, head down.