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Practice and Readiness

Understand what you need to prepare and how that differs from the band's shared progress.

Ready means ready to rehearse

You learn a song until you are ready. After that, you practise it. Ready means you can make a basic independent pass through your part, follow the current arrangement, and bring the hard spots to the band. It does not mean perfect, polished, or Tight.

Personal readiness

Available

Tell the band whether your part is Not assessed, Not started, Learning, or Ready.

Your status tells the band whether you can rehearse together, in every song stage. Learning means you need to learn or relearn your part first. Ready means you can rehearse now. Keeping a song on your private practice list is a separate choice and never changes that status.

  1. 1

    Not assessed

    You have not assessed your part yet. This is the default for a new song or membership.

  2. 2

    Not started

    You have assessed your part and have not started learning it.

  3. 3

    Learning

    You are learning or relearning your part. The band sees that you are not ready to rehearse it together yet.

  4. 4

    Ready

    You know your part well enough to rehearse with the band now. Ready does not mean perfect.

Your practice list stays private

Keep on my practice list is a private choice in every active repertoire stage while My status is Not assessed, Not started, or Ready. Learning adds the song automatically and hides this choice. Entering or leaving Learning clears the private choice.

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Home Practice

Available

See the songs that need your attention now.

Your private practice list includes active repertoire songs where My status is Learning or you choose Keep on my practice list. The private choice is available while Not assessed, Not started, or Ready in every active stage. It never changes what the band sees.

Your private practice list covers Preparing, In rehearsal, and Gig-ready songs where My status is Learning or Keep on my practice list is selected. Learning adds a song automatically. The private choice can also add Not assessed, Not started, or Ready songs without changing your readiness. Entering or leaving Learning clears that choice; moves between active stages preserve it.

Shared song progress

Available

Track how the arrangement sounds as a band.

Rough, Playable, and Tight assess the shared arrangement. A leader then explicitly graduates a Tight song to Gig-ready.

  1. 1

    Rough

    The band can begin a pass, but the arrangement still breaks down.

  2. 2

    Playable

    The band can get through the arrangement with known work left.

  3. 3

    Tight

    The shared arrangement is reliable enough to consider graduating.

  4. 4

    Gig-ready

    A leader explicitly graduates the song into the performable subset.

Tight does not auto-promote

Tight is the band's shared assessment while the song is In rehearsal. Gig-ready is a separate lifecycle destination and always requires an explicit leader decision.

A live band rehearsal — attendance, the current song with key and tempo, shared Rough/Playable/Tight progress, the refresh rotation, and songs being prepared or rehearsed with the Focus limitA live band rehearsal — attendance, the current song with key and tempo, shared Rough/Playable/Tight progress, the refresh rotation, and songs being prepared or rehearsed with the Focus limitA live band rehearsal — attendance, the current song with key and tempo, shared Rough/Playable/Tight progress, the refresh rotation, and songs being prepared or rehearsed with the Focus limitA live band rehearsal — attendance, the current song with key and tempo, shared Rough/Playable/Tight progress, the refresh rotation, and songs being prepared or rehearsed with the Focus limit

Focused Band Practice

Available

Start new rehearsal work only when the people and the board are ready.

Starting a Preparing song normally requires every member Ready and a free In rehearsal slot. A leader can explicitly override stale readiness or a full slot when the band needs to begin rehearsing together.

The Focus limit has one deliberate exception

Normally, a Preparing song needs every member Ready and a free In rehearsal slot. A leader may confirm an override when readiness is out of date or the Focus limit is full. The normal rules still guide the decision.

Rehearse chosen songs together. Closest to gig-ready puts Tight before Playable before Rough, then uses member preparation. Incoming shows Preparing songs where everyone is Ready. Rows with dash-dot borders stay in Preparing until a leader starts rehearsing. Leaders may exceed the artist’s enabled Focus limit after a warning. Search and personal filters also apply to Incoming.Rehearse chosen songs together. Closest to gig-ready puts Tight before Playable before Rough, then uses member preparation. Incoming shows Preparing songs where everyone is Ready. Rows with dash-dot borders stay in Preparing until a leader starts rehearsing. Leaders may exceed the artist’s enabled Focus limit after a warning. Search and personal filters also apply to Incoming.Rehearse chosen songs together. Closest to gig-ready puts Tight before Playable before Rough, then uses member preparation. Incoming shows Preparing songs where everyone is Ready. Rows with dash-dot borders stay in Preparing until a leader starts rehearsing. Leaders may exceed the artist’s enabled Focus limit after a warning. Search and personal filters also apply to Incoming.Rehearse chosen songs together. Closest to gig-ready puts Tight before Playable before Rough, then uses member preparation. Incoming shows Preparing songs where everyone is Ready. Rows with dash-dot borders stay in Preparing until a leader starts rehearsing. Leaders may exceed the artist’s enabled Focus limit after a warning. Search and personal filters also apply to Incoming.

Audio files and conversion

Uploads in My Songs and band songs try to convert mono/stereo WAV and FLAC to AAC in an M4A file before transfer. The converted file is stored only when it is smaller. Existing M4A, MP3, Ogg and WebM files are not re-encoded.

Personal recordings in My Songs use your personal storage. Band-song recordings use the artist’s shared storage.

If your browser cannot encode AAC, decoding or conversion fails, the result is not smaller, or the audio has more than two channels, the original is kept. It may take longer to transfer and use more storage.

A saved mono/stereo WAV may offer Convert to AAC. Prepare and preview it, then choose Replace WAV with AAC. This also runs in your browser. There is no server-side conversion fallback when your browser cannot encode AAC.

Preparing audio may take time before the transfer starts. Uploading shows actual file-transfer progress; Verifying and saving finishes the save afterwards. Smaller files can transfer faster, but conversion and verification mean the total time is not always shorter. Retry a failed save from the same dialog to resume safely.

AAC uses lossy compression: it can reduce transfer time and storage, but does not improve the source quality. When AAC is saved, Wewamo does not keep an extra lossless copy of that upload. Keep your original separately if you need it.

Band member

Keep your Not assessed, Not started, Learning, or Ready signal honest. Members do not start shared work or graduate songs; their readiness supports leader decisions. Choose Learning when you need to learn or relearn your part before rehearsing together. Use Keep on my practice list for a private reminder without changing My status.

Open your Practice queue

Band leader

Make Ready clear: the member can rehearse their part with the band now. Learning means they still need to learn or relearn it. The private practice-list choice never changes that status. Use shared readiness when deciding to start a song; confirm any override of readiness or the Focus limit explicitly.

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Keep exploring

Where Ready songs enter shared workWhy Gig-ready is only part of RepertoireHow preparation powers the Rehearsal Loop

Prepare your part before the band spends shared time

Open your cross-artist Practice queue to see what needs attention and why.

Open Practice