Well my first band was formed with friends from school. We agreed on some covers to learn and went into a practice room and attempted to play those songs together to get a feel for it. Then the singer/guitarist started bringing in song ideas on guitar and we added to those. It's still working like that but with more involvement from the other two members.
Another band I am involved with is just starting, only had one practice. That was aranged by Paul advertising on aberdeen-music.com. He has already jammed with another guitarist and they had some ideas on how it could sound. After getting all the elements together: keyboard, bass and drums. We all went into a practice room and just jammed from scratch. No one knew how it was going to work or where it was going. The music just happened...for a whole 2hours and 30mins it was off the cuff.
Both ways have been equally as good as far as I can tell. Certainly enjoyed both. The next practice with the new band is going to involve people bringing some more thought out riffs. I do think it is important that people bring some song skeletons with them for people to work on.
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