A rehearsal list for your band: what to practise next

    The rehearsal list in Stage Friend is your band's shared pile of songs to practise, with a note on how well you know each one. Everyone in the band sees the same list, so the question of what to run at the next rehearsal has an answer before you plug in. When a song sits, you tick it off and it moves out of the way. Putting songs on the list and working through it needs Solo Pro or Stage Pro.

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    In a sunlit kitchen, someone practises on an acoustic guitar, seen over the shoulder, reading Piano Man's chords in Stage Friend on a phone in a stand on the table beside a coffee mug.
    Practising the next song at the kitchen table. The room is an illustration, the screen is the app.

    Add a song to the rehearsal list

    A song usually lands on the list when it's new to the set or when it fell apart last time. Open the song's three dots on its chords and lyrics page and choose Add to Rehearsal, and it shows up for the whole band under Rehearsal in the menu, under Live. On a computer or a tablet held sideways, the same choice is in a song's three dots in your song list or in a setlist. Since the list is shared, the bass player who adds a song at home has it on everyone's list by the next rehearsal.

    • Solo Pro or Stage Pro

    Starts on a song's chords and lyrics page. Not there yet? See Open a song.

    1.Tap the three dots by the song's title and choose Add to Rehearsal. It shows for the whole band under Rehearsal in the menu.

    The rehearsal list

    Rehearsal in the menu, under Live, has two parts. To Rehearse holds what still needs work, and Rehearsed shows the songs you've ticked off in the last six hours, so you can see what the band got through today. A song you ticked off leaves the list after that, unless someone puts it back, which a song under Rehearsed lets you do with one tap.

    When the list grows, search it or filter it. Once the band has gigs, the gig filter shows only the songs on a gig's setlist, which is the one to use the week before a show, and the status filter shows only the songs with one status, such as the Shaky ones.

    Mark how well you know a song

    Not every song needs the same work, so each one can carry a status: New, Shaky or Rusty, or No status to leave it on the list without a grade. Set it in the song's three dots on the list, or tap the status the song already shows. That way the band can spend the first hour on the new ones and save the rusty ones for the end.

    When a song sits, tap the tick on its row or choose Mark as Rehearsed, and it moves over to Rehearsed. If it doesn't belong on the list after all, Remove from Rehearsal takes it off straight away.

    Let Stage Friend pick what to rehearse

    When nobody wants to choose, tap Draw at the top of the rehearsal list and Stage Friend picks a song at random, with a short game while it spins. It draws from the songs under To Rehearse as the list shows them right now, so filter it first if you only want this weekend's gig or only the shaky ones, and it needs at least two songs. See Draw a song for the games and settings.

    Questions

    Does everyone in the band see the same rehearsal list?
    Yes, the rehearsal list belongs to the band, so every member sees the same songs and statuses, and a change one of you makes shows for everyone. See Invite your band.
    Is the rehearsal list free?
    No, adding songs to the rehearsal list and working through it needs Solo Pro or Stage Pro. Solo Pro costs $4.90 a month or $42 a year, see Prices.