The Craft
Notes on rehearsal, charts, and stagecraft from the musician building BandBinder.
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Five Musicians, One Version of the Song
Everybody has a slightly different chart. It never sounds bad enough to fix, so it never gets fixed.
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Why BandBinder?
A few bands, four operating systems, and a three-ring binder. The short version of how I ended up building this.
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The Best Chart Is the One You Barely Notice
A chart earns its keep in rehearsal. On stage it should be doing less and less work, until you are only using it for landmarks.
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Don't Let a Good Rehearsal Disappear
A band gets better by remembering what it worked out last week. Most of that work leaves the room in somebody's head and never comes back.
The songbook your band builds in rehearsal is the one you perform with.
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