The Den Home Music Studio

The Den Home Music Studio
~ House Rules ~

1. You don't have to be a musician to be here, so please don't feel you must know everything. You are mortal and imperfect and it takes a lot of work to learn some of these things.
2. It's the music itself that matters and self-promotion is obnoxious.
3. With technical equipment, please think before you act, or you'll damage things (This is an extension of rule i).
4. We should communicate intelligently about what we're doing and if there are disagreements, the writer(s) of the music should have final artistic say.
5. There are several different reasons to meet in a place like this:-
   1. Of course, sometimes we can just hang out, talk, play records or pick up an instrument and do whatever. And...
   2. I'd like to play off-the-cuff with people, jam with a mate on guitar or spend an enjoyable afternoon with a pianist playing Kreisler, Beethoven or Brahms. But,...
   3. For me to seriously believe in a group I'm in and tolerate hype machines being cranked up around me, I'd need to be firm about a rule of having at least one serious rehearsal a week without intoxicants, otherwise everything will remain the same big bloody mess.
   4. Then, maybe on a Friday evening, there can be a more casual practice and it will be more fun because we will have worked out difficulties and the music will flow.
6. There may be people banned. This will be at my discretion.
7. Please don't always be outdoing me and rubbing my nose in it, or you'll be communicating nothing but a gloating aggression which detracts from the quality of your performance in a way much deeper than merely whether or not you can accomplish any technical difficulties.
8. My sex life is private and I don't promise to include you in it.   If you can't stop yourself going on about all the girls you're scoring, then you are extremely weak and insecure and I pity you.