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Define "Practice" v.s. "Rehearsal"...
- Thread starter BlackCrow
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"learn at home bring it to rehearsal" but rehearsals have also been practice of new ideas/hangtime or hammering thru the ones we know, just to stay tight. so it's either or in some cases.
My bandmates understand what I'm saying if I call band practice tonight.
No offense, but if defining these terms is an important bone of contention for a band of musicians, that doesn’t sound like a band I'd want to play with: I can think of a lot more important things to discuss - I don't need the complications of minutia for additional stress
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Well sort of. There's more to a rehearsal than just running sets. If your point was that people should be learning their parts at home, you are correct, but it's pretty common that slight adjustments are needed when all the individuals get together. If all you do is run through sets, why do you rehearse? That's what gigs are for.
practice /prăk′tĭs/
intransitive verb
noun
intransitive verb
- To do or perform habitually or customarily; make a habit of.
"practices courtesy in social situations." - To do or perform (something) repeatedly in order to acquire or polish a skill.
"practice a dance step."
noun
- The act of practicing in preparation for a public performance.
- A session of practice for a performance, as of a play.
- A detailed enumeration or repetition.
"a long rehearsal of his woes."
If it's a paying gig/rehearsal I want it tight. But it all pays the same, right?
If it's a hobby band, I still prefer a pro attitude, but I'm willing to accept that it's going to be more about the hang than the money. But I'm not doing any hobby bands at the moment, largely because of that kind of thing.
If it's a hobby band, I still prefer a pro attitude, but I'm willing to accept that it's going to be more about the hang than the money. But I'm not doing any hobby bands at the moment, largely because of that kind of thing.
Not offended
It's never been a bone of contention among any band I have played with
for the most part people have showed up knowing their parts, and partners/dogs have been absent
the presence of beer has been 50/50
but uncommunicated expectations seems to be the most common thread in most Band Management posts
so that is the view I am using here
Good definitions. Though in the quoted examples "practices courtesy" and "practices a dance step," "practice" is actually a transitive verb, not an intransitive one.
It can be used intransitively too ("Does that guy ever practice?"), but that's not the case for the examples quoted. Sorry for the interruption; return to your regularly scheduled programming.
Not this same old thread again. Call it what you want, I have no idea why you need to define it. If people don’t know what they need to be doing, they are not worth it.
A, practice is the rigor in my opinion. That’s the way I have been taught to use the word. Practice is the technique building and song learning and whatever else you’d call that atrocious caterwaul my amp makes at home.
B, rehearsal is more of a formal run through. It’s set list playing and cleaning of songs by the band.
C, if you ask me informally I bet 9 times out of 10 I say practice when I mean rehearsal even though I should know better.
B, rehearsal is more of a formal run through. It’s set list playing and cleaning of songs by the band.
C, if you ask me informally I bet 9 times out of 10 I say practice when I mean rehearsal even though I should know better.
Honestly, my time is very precious so from my personal point of view, unless we're working on new stuff or making new arrangements for the songs, rehearsing should organized and to the point, where everyone knows their parts and you work to get things tight among the band.
Real work should be done when practicing at home, so everyone knows how to play their parts and rehearsals can be more productive.
If someone doesn't practice at home we end up loosing a lot of time just to get things locked on.
Real work should be done when practicing at home, so everyone knows how to play their parts and rehearsals can be more productive.
If someone doesn't practice at home we end up loosing a lot of time just to get things locked on.
Think of it in terms of a play.
An actor running over their lines at home or possibly with another person. That's practice.
All the actors running through the entire play. That's rehearsal.
An actor running over their lines at home or possibly with another person. That's practice.
All the actors running through the entire play. That's rehearsal.
I agree that "practice" you do by yourself to work on your chops, "rehearsal" is with the whole band. What you're describing with girlfriends and dogs and whatever is a "jam", which I got over years ago.
More importantly, do you know the official distinction between "dinner" and "supper"? "Dinner" is the big meal of the day (excluding breakfast) no matter when it happens. "Supper" is light meal in the evening. "Lunch" is a light meal around noontime. So if your big meal is at noon, that's dinner and you have supper in the evening. If your big meal is in the evening, that's dinner and you have lunch at noon. Of course the problem a lot of Americans have is both meals are a dinner.
We're clearing up all kinds of things here.
Practice - Yeah. What I do at home to stay on an improvement path.
Woodshed - Subset of practice. Learning the damn songs.
Rehearsal - Productive, respectfully efficient, in-person group collaboration to work out wrinkles, provide input on arrangements and/or perform full dry-run sets.
Best rehearsals I've attended had an organized agenda that followed a schedule; Ex: Hr-1: run through challenging parts a, b & c Hr-2: arrangement collab on a, b & c (or run through new songs a, b & c), 10 min break; Hr-3: Dry-run set 2.
Disclaimer: In my bar-band-pay-scale world, rehearsals are rare; You'd better learn the damn songs.
Woodshed - Subset of practice. Learning the damn songs.
Rehearsal - Productive, respectfully efficient, in-person group collaboration to work out wrinkles, provide input on arrangements and/or perform full dry-run sets.
Best rehearsals I've attended had an organized agenda that followed a schedule; Ex: Hr-1: run through challenging parts a, b & c Hr-2: arrangement collab on a, b & c (or run through new songs a, b & c), 10 min break; Hr-3: Dry-run set 2.
Disclaimer: In my bar-band-pay-scale world, rehearsals are rare; You'd better learn the damn songs.
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