Rehearsal - How frequently do you practice as a team?

psalm63adam · 07-23-2007, 09:00 PM

Because we meet in a YMCA, we don't practice until Saturday night. I get in at 6:00 p.m. with the setup team and we set up everything and tweak everything until 8:00 p.m. Then our worship team rehearses from 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Sunday morning, everyone shows up at 8:00 a.m. and we rehearse from 8:00 - 8:45 a.m. We have two services, and then we tear down from 11:50 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

We currently have 300 in attendance. Down from 500 a year ago.

Tmurrin · 07-23-2007, 09:21 PM

um thursday with instruments from 8-9 or ten then saturday for 2 hours then sunday morning for 1 hr or 45 min

cheyguy426 · 07-24-2007, 01:46 PM

100-150 members at the contemporary service.

7-9 practice on wednesdays.
9-10, 10:30 jam with whoever wants so stay after practice.

8-9 sunday morning practice
9-10 sunday contemporary service

The jam, I have found, actually helps people really gel as musicians and learn to understand each others tendencies. And it's usually tons of fun experimenting with sounds and stuff.

**Gustin** · 07-24-2007, 03:46 PM

We have around 150 people.

We typically have one 2 hour practice during the week and another hour and a half to two hour practice Sunday morning.

The jam session cheyguy mentioned is a pretty good idea. We do it on occasion and it definitely helps.

leenieweenie · 07-24-2007, 04:21 PM

We have about 250.

We rehearse every tuesday 6-9 pm and sunday 9-10 am. We always jam on tuesday. It definitely helps, I would recommend it to everyone.

Jaymze13 · 07-24-2007, 06:23 PM

Wednesday night for about an hour and a half. Then depending on what the leaders think, anywhere between 9 and 9:30 on Sunday morning.

I'd love to switch to another night personally.

Tarby777 · 07-25-2007, 05:22 AM

We practice for 2 - 2.5 hours on Thursday night and we have around 20 mins on Sunday morning to move all the gear into place, get tuned up, plugged in and set levels while the congregation from the previous service is making its way out. That's the tough part... we can't leave the gear set up where we'd like it to be because other congregations that come before us on Sunday mornings need to get to the altar rail for communion.

There's a core team of guitar/bass/drums/lead vocal that ministers every week. We rotate backing vocals and keyboard players. Our congregation size is 80-100.

HTH
Tarby