If your performer is in rehearsals, either getting ready for gigging, or practising new songs to add to your repertoire, the opportunitys are you’ll have to hire a rehearsal room. The costs of engaging a room can soon mount up if you don’t organize your time effectively. You can be has been ting time and [...]
You’ve brought together three or four of the optimum musicians in town, and they are jamming to your tunes. You’ve spent days and evenings writing and rewriting lyrics, and you’ve been working hard to optimum your sound. Lastly, following many months of practice, you are ready to reap the rewards of your hard work. But [...]
To most musicians, the enduring image of an performer manager is a caricature of a heavy-set, unkempt slob of a man, stuffed into a 2-sizes-too-small, off-the-rack department store suit, chomping on a cheap smelly cigar while sliding a gr easy hand unceremoniously into the back pocket of a starving artist. Assuredly, somewhere in the vast [...]
(For the purpose of this article I’m going to make a couple of assumptions before I go any further. They are that you have a little bit of vocal or musical instrument knowledge and that you also have a fledgling network of friends and contacts)
Starting up a band is a decidedly exciting time in a [...]
Most individuals would say the first thing to do is to find a name for the band. Lets start from there s venue we??
The auditions are over, you’ve found your bass player and you all seem to get along really well. The excitement is in the air and you’ve had your 1st performer bonding celebration.
Now [...]
New repositionable vinyl stickers offer artists some great new promotional tools.
Promoting your performer with vinyl stickers is a new way to get people talking. Vinyl stickers may be custom made with your performer logo or life size photos of your performer in action and of the performer members.
What’s this new vinyl sticker material called? FotoSticks. [...]
Bands fail all the time. They fail, not through a lack of talent or because of a mutual decision to pursue other interests, but because of a lack of interest, band recognition and a small fan base. This lack of interest has absolutely virtually nothing to do with the band’s musical or vocal abilities; rather, [...]
In a substantially short time, Myspace.com has become the hottest music promotional tool available to anyone. Here are the 7 rules of successful MySpace music promotion.
1. Get a myspace.com music page.
Getting a myspace.com music page is free so there is no reason not to have one.
2. Ensure your page is user friendly.
There are a lot [...]
Even if you’re currently sleeping on your buddy’s couch, you can encourage your band with little or no resources. ( You’ll need a PC and Internet access)
Free music marketing (as the name suggests) does not fee resources, but it will take some time, creative and determination. Ready?
1. Get an Email Account. Free email accounts are [...]
In the days before the Web, when the major record labels had the music market sewn up tight, it was all but impossible to break into the music business in the traditional sense in the absence of having a recording contract with one of them. This again and again led to performers developing into broke [...]