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Keeping Up With The Expectations Of Your New Band

If you have taken on the responsibility of running the band on your own, you have some important issues to handle. None the least of which is to stay in top form yourself.

Then you have to keep marketing at the forefront of everything else, combined with the need to keep the others happy. This isn't a job for someone with an ego, or anyone with a heart problem.

This Is Not Your Father's Band

What has to be managed within the ranks also weights heavy on whatever role you fulfill on-stage as well as off-stage. Then you might have to write material, draw the art, keep the books, buy the trailer, buy light bulbs for the 35 par56 cans you just bought at the garage sale. Fix the Hartke bass head that you have running your subs....

This is not a job for the weak minded either. Or a drunk. If you can't keep your head straight, you won't go very far on your own.

Then there is keeping your own instrument in shape; be it guitar, drums, or voice. Then booking, then recording, then videos, and don't forget the internet.

Hopefully you have already worked through some of my other lenses and have a head start on managing and keeping your band running.

In case you are wondering this will be a lens dedicated to the one's who have bridged the step one lenses that I have already written, and are ready for a more in depth approach, like how to properly involve other band members in the business without loosing control, how to maintain and practice your instruments, and more in depth studies on management and the process that should take you to the top.

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Keeping it all in top form

This is intended to be a jumping point for several new areas that I intend to go more in depth on.

Of course up coming lenses will focus on vocal training, diet, exercise, mechanics, electronics, and yes even some math... I know... eeeeww. "If I wanted to do math I would have stayed in school instead of dropping out to become a big rock star..."

Okay, we'll push in other directions for now, but stay tuned for much more, because we will be getting into how all of that stuff works, and how you not only can fix it yourself, but how you might be able to build it cheaper than buying it...

Soon there will be a huge list of growing links here to follow. So be sure to book mark!

In Depth With PR And More

learning to swim with the dolphins to get to chase sharks

This series of upcoming lenses are going to be designed to get you down and dirty with creating and maintaining a mystique and a powerhouse of public relations. even deeper than just the stuff I skimmed over in the previous lenses.

Soon I will show you how to build your MySpace, step by step, as well as much more, like Tricks to last.fm, cherrypeal, thesixtyone, and several deep ingrained sites that can put you on top of the heap, and possibly garner more page views, which lead to better search engine placement in your genre.