How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[Stub Mandrel]

6 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

It's a valid question.

 

We all haven't been 20 somethings for a while now and don't want to start at  7 to finish at 11. It makes work pretty painful the next day. We used to do 6-9 on a Sunday which was great until one guitarist moved to Newquay (travelling up in the week to work a few days in the office) and then suddenly it obviously doesn't work that well. Had to switch to midweek and then instead of doing 3 hour weekly practices, we're doing 4 hours every two weeks. It's all a bit frustrating. It really stops new songs being fresh for next practice if it's two weeks away. I think maybe we need to instigate some sort of online practice too on the non-physical meetup weeks. I've heard good things about Jamkazam.

 

3 hours is the point where creativity and concentration die...

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

3 hours is the point where creativity and concentration die...

We occasionally do a Sun afternoon 12-6pm. We make a day of it and bring sandwiches, flasks of coffee, cream cakes of course and take a longish break halfway thru. It allows us to run thru our full repertoire to keep things sharp for any possible eventuality.

TBH we generally get thru the songs and finish up around 5-ish but it makes rehearsals a much more relaxed affair if not rushing thru songs etc.

Dave

[Woodinblack]

11 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

I love it, still laughing. 😂

 

Well, my practice tonight was way better!

[bigthumb]

My run of bad luck with basses continues. 

 

My recently acquired Sandberg California wasn't going to play ball. It was fine a week or so ago when I gave it a good testing at home upon arrival, very happy indeed. Put it back in its gig bag until tonights practice. 

I was really looking forward to properly using this bass with the band and planing to use it at Saturdays gig but it was not to be. The input socket was not going to accept any lead I tried so something is obviously broken and a new socket is probably needed. So I had to drive back home and get a replacement bass, my old Gibson Ripper. 

Rehearsal going well until I had sudden overwhelming pain in my knackered right foot which left me hopping about and swearing like a drunken trooper! I can only imagine how funny this is going to look should these pain spasms return whilst gigging this coming Saturday! 

 

 

 

[12stringbassist]

We auditioned our new guitarist on the 2nd (playing 4 songs).
Got another 6 off at the next jam night on the 9th.
Rehearsed two sets worth of songs last night. Yes, we are having to go for some 'quick wins', but we are out again in July.
This is one of them.
 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by 12stringbassist

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, 12stringbassist said:

We auditioned our new guitarist on the 2nd (playing 4 songs).
Got another 6 off at the next jam night on the 9th.
Rehearsed two sets worth of songs last night. Yes, we are having to go for some 'quick wins', but we are out again in July.
This is one of them.
 

 

Sounding good and that Ric sounds very nice.

Dave

[Stub Mandrel]

16 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Well, my practice tonight was way better!

 

Always more productive with the rest of the band present 😁

Edited 2 hours ago by Stub Mandrel