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Music is a business. You have got to decide how seriously you wish to pursue your private pleasure vs. making profits. This isn’t to claim that you cannot have both and often if you plan conscientiously you can have a satisfying experience in each way. Many of you have played music on different levels and it’s good to chat to other musicians to come up with ideas and learn from their experience. Some musicians are pleased to rehearse together only some are pleased to do cover songs and others write and play original content and go for the massively. Regardless of what you decide, the planning of your undertaking is a most frequently ignored and significant part of your success.

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It could be a tie between the amount of bands I have been with and the quantity of automobiles I have owned, particularly when I was younger. Playing music can be particularly exasperating. There might be times in your life when you’ll take part more and occasionally less. Keep at it! Music keeps you young and alive. Change is all about being flexible. Music styles, Band Members, Gigs, and most of all – you change.

Keep you eye on the prize – playing as regularly and for so long as you can. Do not get locked into the standard music. Some songs are treasures and you’ll need to play them forever.

Put some new stuff in there once in a while to test yourself and keep things fresh. There’s nothing else annoying to hear a good band, and years after they do eighty percent of the usual stuff. If you have old hit songs that could be the exception. Don’t be scared to do original music. Business times are difficult. People need to have fun when spending their cash listening to music.

Give them your all. Circumstances cause changes in band membership. The band will usually be different when an affiliate is replaced.

In one band we lost our keyboard player and went on without one.

We wound up with a tighter sound, more gigs, and extra money.

Pick average musicians you can get with instead of stars who need to run the whole show. After auditioning replacements, talk about what you’ve got to change. You new guitar player won’t be the soloist your old one was but perhaps he’ll sing better and open up more avenues of songs for you to do. If you get an opportunity, read “Who Moved My Cheese” by Spencer Johnson, MD. Music is all about entertainment. It’s not that I am advocating you get a monkey and organ grinder. Act like you’ve got an interest in what is going on. Have confidence. You are potentially miles better than you believe. If your band makes screw ups on stage (I call them clams), don’t turn around and take a look at the bloke on stage like he just wet his pants. If your entire band screws up a song, keep going or restart and make a joke of it to the audience. “Dead Air” is your largest enemy. Do not let time go by without communicating to the onlookers. I played in “show” bands where your each move and words were rehearsed. I suspect I’d have rather worked at the steel plant. A natural, fair, and hopeful display will keep your audiences attention till the next tune. Communicate with one another on stage. Hand signals or some words can function as a reminder for stops, endings, dynamics, and a spread of things. Talking of dynamics (getting louder or softer is a general definition of dynamics), they could make or break you. Music with a continued loud or soft approach has tiny feeling. Build your songs and make great dynamic endings. If you’re doing covers, don’t be scared to change things. Make each song your own.