How Often You Rehears Your Songs?

I am curious about one thing, your participation will be most welcome…

When rehearsing with the band, at one moment, quite short, I guess, the number of songs you learn and rehears with the band will be higher than the number of songs that you can actually rehears in one single rehearsing session.

Considering cover bands that should have a list of at least 40-50 songs (am I wrong here?) to play in a show of 2-3 sessions at a party, all these songs can not possibly be practiced in one session.

So, how do you do it?

I have spoken to a friend of mine that actually does this and he said that they study the songs at home, individually and at the rehearsal they only go through the difficult parts, like breaks, tempo changes, points where they feel they should go through at least once or twice together but don’t play the easy parts.

I think I have heard a pro band saying once that they actually don’t rehears anymore, they do it on tour, because they spend anyway a lot of time together. OK, I guess that when you play every 1-2 days the same set that is already stuck in the mind of the audience, every show is a rehearsal so another rehearsal wouldn’t help that much. Maybe only for new songs…

Personally we play a few songs every rehearsal, but lately we haven’t met that often, so practice would be needed…

So, how do you do it?

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