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I hope I've put this in the right forum, if not, then I apologise.
Before I make the suggestion to our band, I want to get your feedback on possible pitfalls, or things I might have overlooked.
I play in a community band. We are about 40-45 strong, made up mainly of saxophones, clarinets, with flutes, a trumpet, a trombone, keyboard, bass guitar, drums and percussion.
We play for fun, and do about 3-6 performance over the summer at school fetes, residential homes etc.
We're not bad, none of us is professional, we all have "other lives".
Hopefully you get the picture.
I've often found that although I can play my part on my own at home, when it comes to playing in the band, then I make all sorts of little errors, mostly around not really knowing how my part fits into the rest of the band.
So I got to thinking how it would be useful to record the band and have those recordings available on our own web-site (we have a web-site already, with a members area, so access could be restricted), so we could practice along with ourselves at home.
I hope I'm making sense here.
Now, obviously, we'd want to do those recordings as cheaply as possible, preferably with no cost!
And we have a repertoire of around 100 pieces in total, although some get an airing far more than others (eg, this summer we'll be playing about 20-25 pieces) so we could prioritise.
So, am I being naive in thinking we could do this at all?
What sort of problems could we encounter?
Is there an issue with copyrights or performance rights? (as a band, we buy all our sheet music with copyright as necessary)
We're not looking for studio quality perfection, but a good recording of each piece we play.
Or are my ideas just pie in the sky?
As ever, awaiting your wonderfully constructive thoughts
Before I make the suggestion to our band, I want to get your feedback on possible pitfalls, or things I might have overlooked.
I play in a community band. We are about 40-45 strong, made up mainly of saxophones, clarinets, with flutes, a trumpet, a trombone, keyboard, bass guitar, drums and percussion.
We play for fun, and do about 3-6 performance over the summer at school fetes, residential homes etc.
We're not bad, none of us is professional, we all have "other lives".
Hopefully you get the picture.
I've often found that although I can play my part on my own at home, when it comes to playing in the band, then I make all sorts of little errors, mostly around not really knowing how my part fits into the rest of the band.
So I got to thinking how it would be useful to record the band and have those recordings available on our own web-site (we have a web-site already, with a members area, so access could be restricted), so we could practice along with ourselves at home.
I hope I'm making sense here.
Now, obviously, we'd want to do those recordings as cheaply as possible, preferably with no cost!
And we have a repertoire of around 100 pieces in total, although some get an airing far more than others (eg, this summer we'll be playing about 20-25 pieces) so we could prioritise.
So, am I being naive in thinking we could do this at all?
What sort of problems could we encounter?
Is there an issue with copyrights or performance rights? (as a band, we buy all our sheet music with copyright as necessary)
We're not looking for studio quality perfection, but a good recording of each piece we play.
Or are my ideas just pie in the sky?
As ever, awaiting your wonderfully constructive thoughts