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Step 4Break into the local scene
Two key questions for this step:
1. What kind of music do you want to play?
2. In which cities is that music the most popular?
If you're not in one of the cities that you wrote down for #2, I suggest moving there right quick, unless you plan on growing a following primarily through friends of friends and the Internet.
Once you're in one of those cities, start going to places that feature the music you want to play. Go to clubs. Go to bars. Go to your favorite boutiques or shops or tattoo and piercing parlors, and look at the flyers near the entrance that advertise nearby events. As you'll see, you can get into a lot of those events for free. Starving artists, take advantage of this.
Talk to people.
This is the perfect chance to build up your confidence, because you'll need it to become a star. Talk to groupies. Talk to the band members themselves. Talk to the bartenders and bouncers.
Listen to what they like to hear. Listen to their recommendations. If they're managers of a club, or other aspiring rock stars, so much the better. Keep in touch with them. Charm them. Show them your stage persona and what it can do.
Listen to TONS of music.
It should be in your genre, but it doesn't really matter as long as you're listening to as much music as you possibly can. You can't be a rock star if you aren't living and breathing music. Listen to whatever people recommend to you. Listen to and talk with street musicians. Go discover new bands online.
The goal is to be able to strike up a conversation about music with anyone, anytime, anywhere. If you're looking to network in the music business, this can and will come in handy, as it will in step 7.
1. What kind of music do you want to play?
2. In which cities is that music the most popular?
If you're not in one of the cities that you wrote down for #2, I suggest moving there right quick, unless you plan on growing a following primarily through friends of friends and the Internet.
Once you're in one of those cities, start going to places that feature the music you want to play. Go to clubs. Go to bars. Go to your favorite boutiques or shops or tattoo and piercing parlors, and look at the flyers near the entrance that advertise nearby events. As you'll see, you can get into a lot of those events for free. Starving artists, take advantage of this.
Talk to people.
This is the perfect chance to build up your confidence, because you'll need it to become a star. Talk to groupies. Talk to the band members themselves. Talk to the bartenders and bouncers.
Listen to what they like to hear. Listen to their recommendations. If they're managers of a club, or other aspiring rock stars, so much the better. Keep in touch with them. Charm them. Show them your stage persona and what it can do.
Listen to TONS of music.
It should be in your genre, but it doesn't really matter as long as you're listening to as much music as you possibly can. You can't be a rock star if you aren't living and breathing music. Listen to whatever people recommend to you. Listen to and talk with street musicians. Go discover new bands online.
The goal is to be able to strike up a conversation about music with anyone, anytime, anywhere. If you're looking to network in the music business, this can and will come in handy, as it will in step 7.
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Aug 17, 2009. 1:31 PMThe Jamalam
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Arctic monkeys got famous all because of Myspace!
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Jan 2, 2010. 3:24 PMCapnTac
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I've never even heard of the group, but I'll take your word for it.
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