[Trombone-l] Rules for Rehearsal - looking for some help

[Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Ansbach DPW]

I'm having a problem with a church choir/praise team I work with, and I know
some of you are involved in similar settings, but it may apply more
generally to any rehearsal setting.  

This is a mix of adults and young people largely without a conventional
music background, and we're having discipline problems and of course the
hurt feelings that result.  (but sadly aren't enough to make the offenders
quit.  Hee, hee)  I think that part of the problem is they just have no
shared set of rules, even obvious stuff like maybe you shouldn't start a
conversation during the downbeat, etc.

Didn't somebody here have a list of rules for rehearsals, or rules for
church choirs, or something?  My thought is a written list of procedures
that everyone has a copy of may go a long way to ending the confusion.  

Wouldn't hurt to have a list for conductors, either.  I certainly have some
pet peeves about what they do wrong.  <g>

Anyway, any suggestions would be appreciated.


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