How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[Stub Mandrel]

Some rehearsals are more chilled than others...
 

[JapanAxe]

Actually last week but…

 

First full rehearsal with new singer. She is great, easy to work with, and sings in a positive way that’s nice for me to harmonise with. Mostly on IEMs (drummer has electronic kit) but ran a mix through the PA too and someone made a phone recording that I listened back to today - this is a band with potential methinks.

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Some rehearsals are more chilled than others...
 

I'm guessing the drummers at the bar getting the drinks in or is he asleep on a table somewhere ? 😂

Dave

[dmccombe7]

49 minutes ago, JapanAxe said:

Actually last week but…

 

First full rehearsal with new singer. She is great, easy to work with, and sings in a positive way that’s nice for me to harmonise with. Mostly on IEMs (drummer has electronic kit) but ran a mix through the PA too and someone made a phone recording that I listened back to today - this is a band with potential methinks.

Nice one. All the best with it.

Dave

[EssexBuccaneer]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Some rehearsals are more chilled than others...
 

Looks like a rehearsal at the height of COVID

[dmccombe7]

3 minutes ago, EssexBuccaneer said:

Looks like a rehearsal at the height of COVID

Or they don't like each other. 😂

Dave

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

I'm guessing the drummers at the bar getting the drinks in or is he asleep on a table somewhere ? 😂

Dave

 

Singer and drums absent. Mate Nigel is playing me something Darren wrote to his lyrics and me and Darren are jamming something suitably funky...

 

The originals lot, Fritz put out an album X years ago and is reviving the band name for an album and a few dates. No big ambitions but some fun stuff with fairly simple structures.

[tauzero]

First rehearsal for a while - singer has been quite busy rehearsing for his part as the monster in Young Frankenstein (at the Core Theatre in Solihull from 22nd to 26th July). Successful run throughs of three songs that we're putting in the set (we've played two of them live once apiece but wanted a further brush up) and then we had a go at Hotel California, which our singer was a bit reluctant to do but after we'd run through it he was pleased with it. Seeing as we hadn't planned to do it and were doing it unpracticed, it was rather good. Guitarist had had the bridge replaced on his Variax JTV-59 (the Les Paul-ish one) and only just got it back, and we're not sure if this was related but he broke the top E twice. Feeling pretty ready for the next gigs, successive nights in Polesworth and Gloucester on 11th and 12th July.

[dmccombe7]

Rehearsal on Mon night with Blockbustarz Glam band to run thru a few new songs for this Sat show at Dreadnought Rock venue in Bathgate.

Also ran thru some songs we've not played for a while. 

Found a discrepancy in one song where guitar and bass was slightly out of sync. When i mentioned it and found guitarist was missing one note in a sequence he maintained that he's "playing it correctly because that's how the song is." and was adamant he was not at fault. Tried listening on a mobile but couldn't hear it clearly enough. Rather than make things worse i agreed to play it his way.

Got home and following day it was annoying me so i checked my notes from 6 yrs ago and sure enough i was correct. I checked a bass tab and again my version was correct. I raised it with him again on messenger and hey ho he finally admitted he was wrong. That's what rehearsals are for but it was just the adamant "I'm right, your wrong" attitude with no compromise that took me aback. 

I'm one of those bassists that learn a song by ear and then looking for a bass tab or transcript to verify it and if a difficult part i'll use Youtube clips. Once i have it i write it all out myself for future reference. I rarely get it wrong because i spend the time researching it first.

The original band members have always been aware of that fact and if i raise an issue they will stand by what i say but in 3 yrs the guitarist and myself have never had a difference in what was played. I think he'll listen to me if it happens again.

Other than that we sorted out set list for Sat night as its a different type of venue to playing the clubs. More rock than dance songs.

Drummer also brought some outfits that his mate from Glitter Band days had made and were not sold yet to see if we wanted any of them. We get a reduced rate. All bought from the guy. Rehearsal turned into a fashion show. 😂

Dave

[nilorius]

46 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Rehearsal on Mon night with Blockbustarz Glam band to run thru a few new songs for this Sat show at Dreadnought Rock venue in Bathgate.

Also ran thru some songs we've not played for a while. 

Found a discrepancy in one song where guitar and bass was slightly out of sync. When i mentioned it and found guitarist was missing one note in a sequence he maintained that he's "playing it correctly because that's how the song is." and was adamant he was not at fault. Tried listening on a mobile but couldn't hear it clearly enough. Rather than make things worse i agreed to play it his way.

Got home and following day it was annoying me so i checked my notes from 6 yrs ago and sure enough i was correct. I checked a bass tab and again my version was correct. I raised it with him again on messenger and hey ho he finally admitted he was wrong. That's what rehearsals are for but it was just the adamant "I'm right, your wrong" attitude with no compromise that took me aback. 

I'm one of those bassists that learn a song by ear and then looking for a bass tab or transcript to verify it and if a difficult part i'll use Youtube clips. Once i have it i write it all out myself for future reference. I rarely get it wrong because i spend the time researching it first.

The original band members have always been aware of that fact and if i raise an issue they will stand by what i say but in 3 yrs the guitarist and myself have never had a difference in what was played. I think he'll listen to me if it happens again.

Other than that we sorted out set list for Sat night as its a different type of venue to playing the clubs. More rock than dance songs.

Drummer also brought some outfits that his mate from Glitter Band days had made and were not sold yet to see if we wanted any of them. We get a reduced rate. All bought from the guy. Rehearsal turned into a fashion show. 😂

Dave

Blockbustarz are cool name for the band 😜

[Leonard Smalls]

We had just a drum'n'basses rehearsal on Sunday... I think I've convinced them this is a good way to go as they're all learning exactly what everyone else plays without just relying on a particular cue - means we'll be tighter and clashing parts will be ironed out as you can't hide so much. Last week was basses and guitars, so hopefully next weeks rehearsal for full band will have everyone knowing exactly what to do for gig a week Friday. So new drums and guitar will be tight as after only 4 rehearsals, including getting guitar and drums to occasionally follow me to bring out the progfunk part of of our punk!

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Rehearsal on Mon night with Blockbustarz Glam band to run thru a few new songs for this Sat show at Dreadnought Rock venue in Bathgate.

Also ran thru some songs we've not played for a while. 

Found a discrepancy in one song where guitar and bass was slightly out of sync. When i mentioned it and found guitarist was missing one note in a sequence he maintained that he's "playing it correctly because that's how the song is." and was adamant he was not at fault. Tried listening on a mobile but couldn't hear it clearly enough. Rather than make things worse i agreed to play it his way.

Got home and following day it was annoying me so i checked my notes from 6 yrs ago and sure enough i was correct. I checked a bass tab and again my version was correct. I raised it with him again on messenger and hey ho he finally admitted he was wrong. That's what rehearsals are for but it was just the adamant "I'm right, your wrong" attitude with no compromise that took me aback. 

I'm one of those bassists that learn a song by ear and then looking for a bass tab or transcript to verify it and if a difficult part i'll use Youtube clips. Once i have it i write it all out myself for future reference. I rarely get it wrong because i spend the time researching it first.

The original band members have always been aware of that fact and if i raise an issue they will stand by what i say but in 3 yrs the guitarist and myself have never had a difference in what was played. I think he'll listen to me if it happens again.

Other than that we sorted out set list for Sat night as its a different type of venue to playing the clubs. More rock than dance songs.

Drummer also brought some outfits that his mate from Glitter Band days had made and were not sold yet to see if we wanted any of them. We get a reduced rate. All bought from the guy. Rehearsal turned into a fashion show. 😂

Dave

 

One band plays Milk and Alcohol with a different timing on the signature riff.

It's hell for me as I've bought that single when it came out, and it's ingrained in my soul...

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

We had just a drum'n'basses rehearsal on Sunday... I think I've convinced them this is a good way to go as they're all learning exactly what everyone else plays without just relying on a particular cue - means we'll be tighter and clashing parts will be ironed out as you can't hide so much. Last week was basses and guitars, so hopefully next weeks rehearsal for full band will have everyone knowing exactly what to do for gig a week Friday. So new drums and guitar will be tight as after only 4 rehearsals, including getting guitar and drums to occasionally follow me to bring out the progfunk part of of our punk!

That's quite interesting. I can see how that would work.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

3 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

One band plays Milk and Alcohol with a different timing on the signature riff.

It's hell for me as I've bought that single when it came out, and it's ingrained in my soul...

Last night the guitarist agreed it was his mistake and he somehow missed it. Probably because we don't put it in the set very often.

Dave

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

It's hell for me as I've bought that single when it came out, and it's ingrained in my soul...

 

I had that problem with one group (different song). Ultimately I just couldn't play it wrong!

New side project does Dani California with different vocal timing in the chorus and it throws me right out - I have done it in the last 3 groups, probably played it north of 300 times in that time. Luckily I have a P16, so I just turn the vocals off for that track!

[Leonard Smalls]

We had a full band rehearsal yesterday to get ready for Worcester gig on Friday 11th...

The part-band rehearsals really helped - everyone is now more receptive to what the others are playing, and as a result we're tighter and a bit heavier.

Guitarman, however, hadn't learnt some of the intricate widdly bass bits I do which would have sound awesome if we both did 'em, so we decided he'd just emphasise the beginning of the phrase in one of the songs leaving me to have a number of mini solos... and in the other one where my busy line does a sort of double time syncopation with the vocals he does just muted scratchy stuff which further emphasises the rhythm. So a bit of a win!

Just hoping drum-man doesn't start every song far too slow!

[Buddster]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Just hoping drum-man doesn't start every song far too slow!

Maybe we could genesplice him with our drummer who starts to fast to get a drummer who starts at the correct tempo. 

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Just hoping drum-man doesn't start every song far too slow!

 

Too slow? Luxury, I dream of too slow!

[Leonard Smalls]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

Luxury, I dream of too slow

Aye!

But if it's a 160bpm punk thing we don't really want 110bpm funky drummer!

[nilorius]

21 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Aye!

But if it's a 160bpm punk thing we don't really want 110bpm funky drummer!

I like disco drummers. They can't play too slow.

Edited yesterday at 11:01 by nilorius

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, nilorius said:

I like disco drummers. They can't play too slow.

 

Indeed. 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

22 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

Indeed

Original Funky Drummer!

[Stub Mandrel]

5 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Original Funky Drummer!

 

Lenny Henry!

[nilorius]

6 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Original Funky Drummer!

Funk is his life