Mediate Michigan

Many bands experience conflict during rehearsals, whether regularly or occasionally. If this happens within your band, you may have some concerns about it. Is it a necessary and expected part of the creative process? Is it destructive and inhibiting your progress? Conflict can be highly destructive and lead to the band’s dissolution. But there are ways to manage conflict and channel it toward a rich creative process. The direction your band goes rests upon each members’ understanding of, and coping with, conflict. Learning new approaches and tools can lead to impressive insights interpersonally and artistically.

Let me begin by explaining what I mean by conflict. I am referring to disagreements that lead to heated arguments. For many bands, though there is much enjoyment working together and creating a unified sound from separate parts, discussion around creative and management decisions leads predictably toward heated arguments. The fact is you all come from differing backgrounds and have strong ideas of what you want to do with your musical talent. Disagreement is to be expected. The presence of conflict shows that the disagreement in a going in a destructive rather than a constructive direction.

via Surviving Band Conflict.

(Mediation is a good option to consider for resolving such disputes.)