Avoiding Lord of the Flies in your shared rehearsal room is easier than you think
If there’s one thing I miss about sharing a practice space with a bunch of other bands it’s walking into an ill-lit room that smells like a sweat-soaked sock steeped in stale cigarette smoke and finding that two of my guitar cables are missing, my amp has a tube loose, and somebody moved my 75-pound Fender Rhodes to the other end of the room without moving it back or re-attaching the sustain pedal.
Wait a minute; that’s more than one thing — and, oh yeah — I don’t miss any of them!
How quickly a clean practice space can descend into chaos. How the chaos is compounded by every additional act that rents hours in that room. On the other hand, there is a certain magic to creating music in a shared space. There’s also a certain focus and fire under your ass when you pay out-of-pocket to rent a rehearsal room.
So here are some good rules to follow to make sure everyone gets maximum value and creativity out of your practice space. Thanks to Drew Ailes for setting this all down as rehearsal space law. …read more
Source: The DIY Musician