I'm playing my firs performance this Monday and your tips really helped. I'm going to try to bring this up to my band mates tomorrow but since I've only been in the band for 2 weeks I hope I'm not going to seem like a controlling twat
I find your videos very informative, though I don't have a band and I might start one soon. I will defiantly look at your videos again to make sure my future band doesn't go to shit. Thanks a lot and keep doing what you're doing. I can't believe that you guys only have a little over 4,000 subs.
another thing will be for guitar players having back up guitars have a spare guitar for when your breaking a string and when you play in diffrent tunings have a guitar in that tuning
To add to, “things to avoid 9”. I’ve seen local bands do this before and then when talking with other bands it turns out they also thought it was unprofessional and kind of a dick move. The last thing you want to do is get a bad reputation with other local bands. Actually that’s a good rule in general, don’t go calling out other local bands, you don’t want beef.
try: 1. rehearse on detail 2. dress in quirky way, make u stand out 3. explore the stage 4. interact with crowd, even only eye contact, chat during song 5. standy : tuner 6. standby spare: pick, stick avoid: 1. stage death 2. talk 3. overthinking (wrong music mind) 4. introduce band member 6. inside jokes 7. sing back dont know lyrics 8. ask audience to come forward, being desperate. 9. 10. 11. play music u are not into Thanks
Quick tip: never let your band get a big enough head so that they don't practice anymore and just assume that they can get it together using number systems and other things like that. Things go wrong. You get new members, you add singers, you have a fill in instrument player and you don't tell the singer what's up with the instrumental... Things go wrong. Just practice. No practice leads to train wrecks. -via a singer who's been singing with a band forever who refuses to practice which led to a minute long awkward instrumental waiting for someone to stop playing and someone else to start. 👀 Number systems or hand signs don't fix moments like those. I seriously doubt this is a problem for anyone but for every band I've ever been a part of it is so yeah felt like... This should be... Y'know.. Added somewhere just because. 🤗
All bands should practise! Timing, tightness and your bands feel will never be felt by all members unless your practising ALOT! Thanks for the comment, we may make a video on this soon!
+The Music Lab That'd be much appreciated because I've sang with so many bands and their excuse is generally "we preform every weekend, we no longer need it" simply because they don't wanna take the time and yeah a lot of mistakes happen over that simple reason... There's a lot I think new bands could use on that topic because even in the newer bands I've sang with, they have some dumb reason not to practice. Practice is a necessity, simple as that, I don't get what's so complicated so yeah I definitely think that should be a touched on topic 💕 thanks for replying btw, I honestly didn't expect to get a reply over a mini rant haha but y'all are awesome
Some of these really help! Im not in a band but I'm doing a show at the end of August and I have no idea what to do other than sing my songs and some covers... haha if you have any suggestion for solo artists let me know!
I'm most likely late to the party on this, but do you think it would be a good idea if in between songs or going into a song, that a member or the band (most likely a guitar player or bass player) Can do a solo to open up the song or to pass time. An example of this in Metallica (before they sold out) in the set list, Jason and Kirk had spots in their set lists for them to play a little solo. (ex. 6. "The Thing That Should Not Be" 7. "Bass solo" 8. "Master of Puppets" 9. "Fade to Black" 10. "Seek & Destroy" 11. "...And Justice for All" 12. "One" 13. "Creeping Death" 14. "Guitar solo" 15. "Battery" ) This is from where they played in Seattle in 1989 if you need further research.
I think the big thing there is that, they were playing arenas full of people that absolutely loved the band. Us, as small musicians dont have that kind of fan base, so a guitar solo will most likely fall flat. (Also, its a very outdated thing to do, bands don't really do that anymore. Mainly due to the fact people are there for your bands music, not a specific member showing off!)
At what point then do you make your band more personal? if you look at live clips of Alex turner saying random shit to audience, how big would the band have to be to get away with that
Ok so this might be super stupid but someone in my band had an idea that if the crowd gets bored he'd throw tortillas to get them to pay attention and I want your input on it so yea
Although it might draw attention, I'm not sure it would be the good kind. If people are bored, work on putting on more of a show and entertaining the audience, not punishing them for something thats probably not their fault.
I'm the lead guitarist of my band we need two more members which we are searching for and we are thinking of doing a mix between KISS and Black Veil Brides (circa 2011) aesthetic wise is that a good idea or not? Also we are all 13 in secondary school so yeah. If you wrote back it would be greatly appreciated :)
