Suggestions for instruments for worship service

[after5cst]

How often (and possibly when) does your musical team rehearse together as a group?

I'll give you three answers.

For our regular Sunday morning services, we rehearse for about 90 minutes on Thursday, and have a half-hour warm-up and refresher on Sunday. We do a wide variety of music each week there, from music we haven't played in months (or years) to brand new music that will be introduced that week.

We also have a small Friday night band (that is completely separate). They rehearse for about an hour before the Friday night service each week. The music there tends to change more slowly, as they don't have time to do more than the minimum there.

I asked a friend at another church (they rent a school on Sundays) how they did practice. They meet once a month at somebody's house for practice, and practice about an hour before service each week. It sounds like this approach "splits the difference": the music for each week tends to change slowly, but the once a month practice allows them to bring one or several new songs into the mix.

[efrisch]

How often (and possibly when) does your musical team rehearse together as a group?

We do a Sunday morning rehearsal only. Our church spent many years as a portable church, and at that time, the Sunday morning rehearsal was really the only option. Over the years, it has just stayed that way. I send charts, etc. out well in advance, and our musicians and techs know what they need to do ahead of rehearsal. We come in on Sundays and pretty much just run things - everybody already has their individual part nailed. Usually takes us just about an hour to be ready for the service, and since our service isn't until 10, it isn't a terribly early morning, either.