So I play in a band with three other people. We’ve only been at it for about a month or two, so a lot of our songs are still being fleshed out and worked on. Due to schedule conflicts, we typically only get to practice two or three days out of a week. Initially, we practiced in the singer’s house, but moved to mine after we started getting noise complaints. 

Today, a person who is friends with the bass player and the drummer decided to come to practice after they invited him the previous night. They didn’t ask me before hand, but I normally have no problems with this. I invite one of my friends to come over occasionally, and he will just sit and talk without interrupting too much. 

But this guy kept getting on my nerves. He started off by offering to “mix” our amps to try and get things to sound better. But really he just turned everything up and made it sound like shit. Then he kept trying to make suggestions on how the drummer should play at one part, but it didn’t sound good or make sense. He even said he could play drums, but once he tried it was obvious that he couldn’t. Ultimately he just wasted our practice time and everyone else seemed fine with it. 

It was really getting on my nerves though. I’m there to practice and get better, and part of that is making the most out of the time that we have.  Eventually, we kind of gave up on practicing and started to jam a little bit. Except he had no idea how to play with other people and instead played over us. The singer and the drummer weren’t into it and started doing something else, as did I after a little while. 

Everyone started packing up after about an hour of non sensical jamming and started leaving. On the way out, he went to say bye and asked for my name again for literally the 10th time. I’m not the best with names, but holy fuck man. I literally told you it 15 times and it’s not even like I have a complicated or abnormal name. 

At this point, I feel like inviting people to practice just isn’t productive and just ends up wasting time. But at the same time, the person that I invite occasionally always just sits and listens to the music without distracting. Im considering telling them that I don’t want any other people over unless I give the green light. I mean it’s my house, so I should be able to control who just stops by. 