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(For the purpose of this article I’m going to make a couple of assumptions before I go any further. They are that you have a little bit of vocal or musical instrument knowledge and that you furthermore have a fledgling network of companions and contacts)
Starting up a performer is a truly inspiring time in a musicians life. There’s a fine balance of nervous anticipation and the fear of the unknown that follows the whole process.
A performer has a diverse dynamic than working as a solo artist. There are other people involved, other personal ities, other strengths and weaknesses in character and abilities and because of this it’s really important that you have several things worked out before you start looking for performer members.
1. Have a wonderful idea of your own strengths and weaknesses
The performer members that you want to get will need to be around the same level of competence as you are. The main reason for this is that you could all grow together rather than have one or two musicians carrying everybody else. This kind of player imbalance causes doubt in the group and doubt is one of the major killers of bands.
2. Know beforehand how the performer is going to be run
Is the performer going to be run by you or the whole group? The personal ity types of the musicians that you pick will need to be agreeable to the way the performer is going to be run.
3. What instrumentation is the performer having in its lineup?
This is mainly determined by the type(s) of music that you want to play but having an idea of what musicians you are looking for will be of amazing endorse.
It’s now time to hunt down some performer members
4. Ask your network of companions and/or contacts
This is always a wonderful place to start. Ask everybody that you know or come into contact with. If you do not have much of a circle of companions and/or contacts this will be a amazing opportunity to broad n it. This is one of the reasons why networking in the industry is so important, for opportunitys such as this.
Having a musician referred to you has a much better opportunity of working than one that comes from an advertisement. This leads me onto my next point.
5. Post an advertisement
Having said that I have had made some amazing contacts from musicians enquiring from a ‘muso wanted’ ad. The key to effective ads is that they need to be concise, to the point, not too lengthy and put in places where musicians are truly like ly to see it and read it like in a music shop, a local/regional music magazine or a music classifieds web site.
A sample ‘ musician wanted’ advertisement could read something like this:
BASS PLAYER WANTED
To join folk/rock band
Influences include
Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Counting Crows
Some experience like red
Own gear and transport essential
Interested?? Give me a call
Corey – (put home and/or cell telephone  number here)
As you could see, the ad is apparent in its intention.
It apparent ly states the musician wanted, the kind of music the performer is playing, what the music could sound like and that the performer has some experience behind it. Ensure you have a apparent contact name and phone numbers (if you want to include an email address as well that is cool).
Do not put in stuff like ‘work waiting’ or ‘no time was ters please’. You could judge those sort of things yourself when an interested musician contacts you.
Once you have done that the waiting game begins.