Witterings
Silver Member
How hard can it be to keep a band together and get people to turn up at practice times having rehearsed the numbers that you all agreed the week before you were going to go through the following week.
I'd be really interested to hear other peoples experiences, I've stayed with a guitarist / vocalist for about 5 years now and we're really the core but we've been through so many other people that have then fallen through or had a change of mind when you're a few weeks of practicing down the line and then it's back to starting all over again.
I really give people a lot of information before they even come round for a trial, where we're based so they can find out what the journey time is, the days / times we practice, how often where and the types of venues we want to gig in, the sort of music we want to do and sometimes more importantly the sort of music we don't want to do and send them a full set list.
4 / 5 weeks later the journey times too far to get there so can we rehearse somewhere else, they now want to drop half the set list and introduce the sort of music you said you really didn't want to do or they no longer want to do any original material which you took great lengths to point out that we do but it would only take up approx 10% of pracatice time and you'd only do a maximum of 2 originals in a set list of 35 songs at any gig. The nights that you practice are now wrong and they can only do every other week as opposed to every week.
Let us know if you've been through similar and any idea's to prevent it happening would be greatly appreciated, I genuinely think me and the guitarist / vocalist are very easy going and welcoming to anybody coming along, we do it for the love of playing and just want to have some fun along the way but really struggle with the constant let downs and going over the same music with different people week after week after week which eventually becomes a chore.
Look forward to hearing any responses !!
I'd be really interested to hear other peoples experiences, I've stayed with a guitarist / vocalist for about 5 years now and we're really the core but we've been through so many other people that have then fallen through or had a change of mind when you're a few weeks of practicing down the line and then it's back to starting all over again.
I really give people a lot of information before they even come round for a trial, where we're based so they can find out what the journey time is, the days / times we practice, how often where and the types of venues we want to gig in, the sort of music we want to do and sometimes more importantly the sort of music we don't want to do and send them a full set list.
4 / 5 weeks later the journey times too far to get there so can we rehearse somewhere else, they now want to drop half the set list and introduce the sort of music you said you really didn't want to do or they no longer want to do any original material which you took great lengths to point out that we do but it would only take up approx 10% of pracatice time and you'd only do a maximum of 2 originals in a set list of 35 songs at any gig. The nights that you practice are now wrong and they can only do every other week as opposed to every week.
Let us know if you've been through similar and any idea's to prevent it happening would be greatly appreciated, I genuinely think me and the guitarist / vocalist are very easy going and welcoming to anybody coming along, we do it for the love of playing and just want to have some fun along the way but really struggle with the constant let downs and going over the same music with different people week after week after week which eventually becomes a chore.
Look forward to hearing any responses !!