longest rehearsal ever, whew!

Hmmm...I've played gigs that lasted longer than that...

 

I've done a nine hour recording session before. Granted, alot of it was listening, scratch tracks, reworking, and some vocals.

 

Hi, sb69coupe

As I live at some distance from our rehearsal space, there's only one rehearsal/week. A normal is around 3-4hours, with a occasional smoke for those who smoke, and a leak for those who don't , and a long one before a gig around 5-6 hours.

Gigs are from 3*45min to 6 hours depending of the place and the audience. (last weekend 3*40 + 20 on one place, then a short drive and a 2*30 on another)

Sam

 

Imagine that you were playing for Frank Zappa?

It would be like that every day!

 

In my younger days, one of my first bands would get together Saturday at around 1 or 2 pm, and jam until midnight easily. (I built the strength up in my hands real quick). The rehearsal space was way out in the boonies, so we never had a problem with noise ordinance. About 9, 10 pm people would start showing up with booze, and it would turn into a party. (I think my parents thought i had a second job at the time).

 

Noon-5 with a lunch break is pretty common for us.

 

doesn't really seem that long to me.

... i used to practice in two bands consecutively...
four hours each... load in/load out time in between...

8 hours of practice every time we did...

[spunj13]

 

4 to 6 hour rehersals is our usual, and I don't consider it a marathon.Tireing for sure but it makes the gigs seem easy.

 

I rarely(!!!) have a band practice lasting less than 3 hours. My main band rehearses 4 hours pr. rehearsel.
When I was at the age of 9-12 i was in a boys choir, sometimes we'd rehearse for 12 hours with a 30 min. break. Then again, we where the best boys 'n men choir in the country.

 

since all of us in my band go to different colleges along the eastern US coast...we dont get to practice much during the school year..we will though schedule gigs during breaks and will often have a week to get all of our set together..we average 7-8 hrs a day for that week...normally by the 3-4 nights we cut it short since we are exhausted but we try to push through

 

no were as near long as other gigs/ sessions i seen but cool enough

 

When I have student concert rehearsals we start at 9AM and go to 7PM. We have a different student roughly every 6 mins with a 30 min lunch break. Luckily thats only twice a year!

 

i just recently filled in for a band down here in florida,i had to learn about 16 new songs in about 2 days,i like the practice and gig sessions,but the unloading and loading is what kills me.

 

we played a marathon(the 26 mile race) two years ago, set up was at 6 AM, we played till 4:30, it was cool though, we were set up right at the finish line

 

my band starts practicing at about 6 p.m. and we end practice between 9:30 and 10 p.m. with a half hour, sometimes an hour, break in between to either discuss band stuff, get dinner or both.

 

My current band never practices. At all.

Occasionally we'll get together to jam and write songs, but rarely do we play out live set during practice. When we get together its just writing.

That said, we've gotten immense feed back from our live shows. We do a lot of improv (think led zeppelin's live shows as well as cream's)

 

i hate to shut you down but meh my first rehersal was six hours. The rehersal rooms in my suburb give you a six hour session for $45 AU so heaps of bands do it. I think it isnt long enough

 

that's why you bring a chair =)