Just got home from today's rehearsal. I'd say it went well, if that was the case, but it isn't. The other guy handled his parts nicely, did a pretty good job at keeping the rhythm going. Then, I entered and started playing the pre-planned licks, and stuff went wrong. One thing would be if I just hit bad notes. Those can be fixed. Instead, my playing was just plain sloppy. After the pre-planned part, he kept the rhythm going for a while, and I tried improvising, and it went better than the stuff I had tabs for.

Only 2 weeks left until the music school thing. Unfortunately, it's on the same day as our rehearsal/private lessons, so we've only got one chance left to get our stuff together and make it as tight as we can. And at this rate, that's gonna be one huge challenge. I suppose I now know what to focus on practicing until that event. After that, I can forget all about it and get back to what I love - Learning songs, coming up with cool riffs, solos and melodies, writing songs, making music, searching for potential bandmates and enjoying the entire process, including all the technical issues I have all the time :) I still have a ton of song I want to learn to play, as well as a dozen riffs or melodies I need to write lyrics for, so I've got plenty of stuff to do (I also have a handful of messages I want to convey, and a few lyric ideas that need melodies, but they're still just that. Ideas that need work).