Our band rehearses in a brewery... where does your band rehearse?

One band I play with rehearses in the club rooms of a cricket club. The other rehearses at a school where our guitarist works. Free rehearsal spaces!

 

Singer's house.

 

In Japan we have practice studios that they rent out for about $5-10 an hour per person.

 

I've practiced in rehearsal rooms, sheds, garages, barns and churches.

 

I have practiced in he following spaces over the course of my bass playing career:

Basement of a used Bookstore
Basement of a Headshop
A large warehouse converted into independent jam rooms
A music hall (like an active venue)
A cold war bomb shelter (we also recorded there)
many a house basement
A garage

 

one band I recently left used to practice in an old slaughterhouse $20/person for a 3-4 hour night
place is split up into rehearsal rooms, the tracks and hooks they moved carcasses on were all still there, rooms are named the kill floor , the hide room , meat locker etc, really cool vibe to the place

 

Backseat of a Greyhound bus. Rolling down Highway 41.

 

At our house gig.
If REALLY NEEEDED, singer's house (3 times in 8 years).

 

We rent a space at a studio. I like the setup, no schlepping gear for practice, can come and go 24/7.

 

Singer's house. Got an upstairs rehearsal studio over his garage.

 

On a small working farm. Inside a converted horse barn, we have secure temperature controlled space to leave all our equipment. Outside, it's goats, chickens and pigs. Only downside is sometimes I get poo mashed into my guitar chord when it gets stepped on.

 

In a warehouse, used as a parking. It is cool, but, sometimes, the non-working cars get in the way. But, hey, its free.

 

Am I the only one who thinks that is insanely expensive?

 

We practice in the guitar players dental office.

 

Since most of my time has been with pit orchestras, rehearsal space (when we actually got a couple of days to rehearse with the cast instead of essentially sight-reading a show) was mostly in some nice theaters. When I was a kid we knew the Ft. Campbell post chaplain pretty well, and he let our band play in the sanctuary. He played with us on occasion as well. If we weren't there, we were in one of the soundproofed rooms at the teen center.

It's been forever since I actually gigged, so right now my "rehearsal" space is the spare bedroom.

 

Sounds almost ideal! A strip club next door would make it perfect. If you can't get a key yourself to the rehearsal space you should move rehearsal to preferably your home, but more likely the drummers. If there's other inhabitants that might complain about noise, tell them to stuff it, they should be thankful to hear some live music for a couple hours.