Last Sunday was the first full practice as a band with everyone present, usually were short one person due to their job. The bands progress is coming along wonderfully. Sundays practice was approximately five hours long. We have two songs down now, that's twenty minutes of material, enough for a show. All of the songs are composed by our guitarist Gabe. He's had most of them written for a couple years now. Once we learn them all we'll have a set to choose from, then we will start thinning them out and start the writing process as a whole.
Saturday night everyone got together and had a pre-practice practice so that Sundays practice would go smoother, and it did! We get together once a week, so the time being were together we utilize our time. We're only able to practice once a week because of work schedules and the commute to get to practice. If it weren't for those obligations, we'd be playing all the time. Next week i might have some news about some up coming show.
How many songs are you hoping to learn? When you say "start the writing process as a whole" do you mean the band is going to collaborate on writing more songs? What genre of music do you play? What are things that make a practice go smoothly as opposed to having a bad practice?
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