Key to your Success

ubw rookie Joined: Jun 11, 2005 Posts: 68

If you had to attribute your success (or failure) as a band or musician to one thing, what would it be? What's the main thing that has gotten you to this level, and what's going to bring you to the next level? What's going to keep you from getting there?

Just interested to see what's worked and what hasn't for all y'all.

-Tyler

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:38 am

The main thing that has got me this far( which isn't very) is sheer bloody mindedness
no matter how well you can sing or play nothing else has the same long term effect
the only thing that will keep me from getting any furthur is other people letting me down,
and nobody actually likeing the music ....theres only so many times you can play to an empty room Smile

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:39 pm

I didn't get far, but here's my thoughts.

Going to college pretty much ended any instrumental progress for me, although I think I probably wrote better songs in my late 20s early 30s. I worked hard on acedemics in college and couldn't spend anywhere near as much time practicing my guitar as I did in high school where I'd probably spend 3-4 hours per day practicing. So if you want to be an excellent instrumentalist I'd recommend focusing on it with full time effort/dedication and study if you have the ability. the older you get, the more demands on your time.

Now I've sold out to the man and the working career and financial commitments pretty much take over. I think devoting full time to a band would've probably been required if I was serious -probably moving in with a devoted band to keep expenses low, practice alot, and work out songs. To me it's very hard to play any kind of inspired music in the small amount of time after work now. I require inspiration to play, and am not inspired much anymore. I've always felt it'd be cool if I lived with a drummer. Drums inspire me and I think I'd jam alot more if I had a drummer around to jam with.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:22 pm

tyler, im 16 my band is fairly young, but in the past year of us being a band, we have released 1 4 song EP and are currently working on a 13 song debut album.

ive been in many (when i say many i mean more then i can count) bands, and this current one, has made a huge fanbase, and we really dont play shows often.

i play alot of differnt instruments, i also sing, in this band, i play bass, and do co-vocals.

when we play we put on a show, we... how i would put it is "have intercoarse" with the audience, keep them involved.

i have had failiure (too much Laughing

) and this is one of my biggests successes, and i think to take us to the next step would be to do a tour, a small one to begin, and then take it from there.

ill give you a few pieces of advice that helped my band out alot.

1) send everyone of your bands cds to local radio stations. and try some long distant ones to, that will help in getting your name known nationally.

2) enter alot of battle of the bands, and dont forget to play other shows as well.

3) sign up on as many band sites you can find. that will get you a web fan base

4) send your bands cds to record companys/labels, if people say that doesnt work, thats bull shit, because it does, just send repetively so the label will be like "welll theyve sent more then one, so lets listen to them"

5) make friends in other bands that are more well known, cause if you become good friends, they will ask you to open for them, and then you will be up on stage infront of the well known bands fan base.

thats really all i got, and it works, so just try that and it should help you out!

-Joshua

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