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Rehearsal blog, day 3

Hey all! Thanks for reading thus far...

Rehearsals day 3 was where we started to really get into it. We took two of the most complicated songs and started to rework them. I'd learned the parts from the forthcoming CD (that's why I can't tell you the song-names, cos they haven't been announced yet!) but the band had learned them as a quartet, so we took some time to rejig the parts, work out the right combination of guitar sounds, then program the effects units and preamps for the quickest changes. I've got a great tech working with me on all that stuff, so it doesn't take as long as it might, but there's still a lot of programming to do! 

So we worked on the intros, the solos and the outro to those two songs - the parts I knew, but the arrangement was new. None of it was that tricky, but I had to concentrate! The other guys mostly picked it up pretty quickly. There's a fair amount of sitting around at rehearsals, so I spend as much time as I can making sure I've got everything down pat. There's no room for sluggishness on a gig like this! 

Well, I need to sleep before tomorrow - this rehearsal schedule is pretty intense, but I thought I'd point you to a band the bassist in eNaNoTangent pointed me to - called Hope And Social. Said he heard them in a gig in Stockwell - nice stuff!