this will help someone else, sometimes I’ll stick out how to play the songs. We all try hard to
a guitar out before I go to bed, I’ll set my guitar already know our material so when we come
out on the kitchen table, then in the morning into rehearsals everyone is coming prepared. I
when I wake up early with my kids and I go to think that has been a huge help. Something I’ve
make my coffee, even while my water is boiling learned over the years is that I’d rather come
for my coffee, if my guitar is sitting there I’m more into rehearsal over prepared than to come in
likely to pick it up for ten minutes and strum
through a few of my Christmas chords. Being
and be the one… I think my biggest fear is to
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come into rehearsal and be the weak link, like
a dad has kind of changed my preparation.
everyone else knows the song and I am behind.
I have to multitask, so I’ve had to be a little seem like much but if you grab that guitar four Nobody wants to be that guy. So that’s been a
creative. While I’m cooking their pancakes or or five times a day for a month leading up to the huge help for me, really over preparing and I try
whatever we’re having for breakfast, or while Christmas tour, then hey, now I remember all not to use cheat sheets and chord charts as
we’re doing our basic tasks. I think a lot of my songs (laughs). much as I can. Once you get married to one of
guitar players can relate to this, and if they
those it’s hard to put it away.
haven’t tried this it could be a good tip, but [WM] What can you tell us about the approach
you’re just so much more likely to practice if it’s you take as a band?
[WM] Looking back on when you first started
not in a case somewhere. If your guitar is sitting
playing Christmas music, what are some of
out someplace where you can grab it, or even [Daniel] We try to take a ‘we’re all grown- the things you learned then that you find most
mount a guitar hanger on the wall so it’s always ups’ approach and do a lot of rehearsing useful today?
available. That’s just been such a huge help for on the front end privately. We don’t come to me, just having it out. It sounds really silly but it’s rehearsal to learn the songs, we already know [Daniel] I would say with Christmas music
just such a practical move. If it’s just right there our parts. So, rehearsal is more like perfecting in particular, you know, every year it’s a good
and I have five minutes, five minutes may not it as opposed to being the time where we figure reminder of the ensemble. Each instrument
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December 2018
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