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Practice sucks, but?

winndaddy

winndaddy

Feb 9, 2011
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#1
Almost every time we have rehearsal things sound like crap. Missed chords, flubbed up timing, you name it. Every time a gig rolls around though, everyone seems to get their act together. Then the next rehearsal is back to beginnerville.

Anyone experience this phenomenon?:hmm:
 
#3
To some extent I've noticed this same thing, though it sounds to me like you're describing something more extreme than my personal experiences.

Even with bands who aren't currently gigging out, I've noticed that the quality of our music varied sometimes from one practice to the next. Sometimes we would just be really tight on everything and other times we'd be making stupid mistakes that we thought we were long past. I always just chalked it up to focus. Some practices we're more focused than others, and nobody is more focused than when playing a gig.
 
#5
cableguy said:
Drinking? 420? Just a thought........
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Yes, one of our guitarist is a heavy drinker. He's a great musician but his lifestyle hampers him and everyone around him. He could be so much more. We talked it over today. I'm pretty sure he's getting the boot after Saturday nights gig (too many reasons to mention). Doesn't matter how good you are if you can't tend to your obligations.
 
#6
winndaddy said:
We talked it over today. I'm pretty sure he's getting the boot after Saturday nights gig (too many reasons to mention).
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Do you have a replacement lined up? Or are you able to do acoustic gigs until you find one? An unreliable drummer may still be better than no drummer at all if you have trouble lining up a replacement. In my experience(and this might just be a regional thing...) drummers are the toughest ones to find...
 
#7
pmchenry said:
Do you have a replacement lined up? Or are you able to do acoustic gigs until you find one? An unreliable drummer may still be better than no drummer at all if you have trouble lining up a replacement. In my experience(and this might just be a regional thing...) drummers are the toughest ones to find...
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Did I mention somewhere that the drummer was the problem? I'm talking about our lead guitarist. Our other guitarist is not as good but given time I'm curtain he could feel the void. Problem with that is the singer will want to pick up a guitar like he does when the drunk guitar player is a no show for practice. I prefer the drunks playing over our sober singers playing any day! Haha
 
#8
winndaddy said:
Did I mention somewhere that the drummer was the problem? I'm talking about our lead guitarist. Our other guitarist is not as good but given time I'm curtain he could feel the void. Problem with that is the singer will want to pick up a guitar like he does when the drunk guitar player is a no show for practice. I prefer the drunks playing over our sober singers playing any day! Haha
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My apologies, I swear I somehow read guitarist as "drummer"... haha, it might be time for me to turn in for the night. Good luck with your band transition, I hope you let the guy down easy... it's an unfortunate nature of a band that they need humans to exist, and boy are we imperfect creatures(especially when we have to work together).
 
#11
winndaddy said:
Almost every time we have rehearsal things sound like crap. Missed chords, flubbed up timing, you name it. Every time a gig rolls around though, everyone seems to get their act together. Then the next rehearsal is back to beginnerville.

Anyone experience this phenomenon?:hmm:
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Happens to my band too. During some rehearsals, we are tired from our day jobs and are just going thru the motions on auto-pilot. But with that said, the rehearsals do pay off. When playing out at a gig, everyone seems to bring it up a few notches and we give a performance. There is a big difference between the two.
 
#14
the lack of adrenaline kind of ruins our project

we don't practice, we play shows and make performance art videos

if we practiced it would lack a lot of the nou, jesus lizard, butthole surfer, jamc barbed wire kisses thing we have going, we also have two bass players, one octave/phased/filtered/wahwah jackson and me playing the sb-2 deep and overdriven into my d180, however we kind of warn people about what we sound like and that it's not going to go over well with those who want commercial stuff or some quaint thing going on at their event
 
#15
pmchenry said:
My apologies, I swear I somehow read guitarist as "drummer"... haha, it might be time for me to turn in for the night. Good luck with your band transition, I hope you let the guy down easy... it's an unfortunate nature of a band that they need humans to exist, and boy are we imperfect creatures(especially when we have to work together).
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Haha, I think you read what you wanted to read ;)
 

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