PART 1Running Your Band
There’s a certain magical quality to a great band. Any band essentially consists of people standing on a stage playing instruments, but a great band’s collective chemistry, proficiency and energy inspire proportionate enthusiasm in their audience. As music is a universal language, the connection between performer and audience can be very powerful, even transcendent.
A great band is a matter of working with the right people, using practice time wisely and writing great songs. (All of this, of course, results in having a great live act, and we’ll cover performance in Part III, Promoting). While a great band is usually the result of the members’ collective experience and dynamism, there are certain basic principles ...
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