There are some critical mistakes that some young bands make when first starting out. If you know the mistakes ahead of time you can certainly benefit from them by making sure you create your band and its image from the ground up while keeping in mind where others have failed. Here are the top ten ways that musicians can officially doom their bands future with.
- Lacking a compelling image that goes well with your music. If you are a death metal band, a rose or a wild mustang may not be your best bet at a band logo. Don’t under estimate the power of the image when it compliments your music.
- Attempting to get yourself out there as soon as possible. It is more important when starting out that you turn people onto your music and your image. Getting them on your side should be your first priority.
- Relying on social media sites to do the work for you. If you choose to utilize the social media sites you will need to actually be a presence there pretty frequently to actually build your fan base solely from these forms of media.
- If you do not invest enough time into creating and building your music career then you will likely have about that much return from a fan base. If your fans see very little effort put into the things you do they will likely just assume you are another here today, gone tomorrow garage band.
- Be careful of the people you surround yourself with. If you surround yourself with people who are bad influences or filled with negative attitudes and outlooks this can and will rub off on you after failures. And even the most famous musicians didn’t get to where they were without those failures.
- Having half-assed live performing skills. If you don’t think you sound good, if good friends squint and look hard put to give you compliments on a song, then you need to practice. The worst advertisement you can give your band is to get your first gig and play like it is your first tune played together ever.
- Worrying about having more and more fans. What you need are fans who have a passion for your music. Those who share your intensity for your own genre and specifically your tunes especially. Try focusing on the fans you do have and relying on them to let you know what you can improve on before you try to hoist an unprepared band onto the masses.
- If you are a budding musician, do not quit your day job regardless of how good your girlfriend or boyfriend tells you that you are. You still have to eat and pay your bills and without being stress free of those very realistic survival worries, you are unlikely to produce anything people can relate to. Just about everyone can relate to busting their can at a crappy job to achieve a higher goal. So make sure you have the funds to even support a band before you attempt it.
- Having a shallow relationship with your fans and your music managers is the absolute wrong approach. Make sure the connections you have with those who have influence over your music career are realistic and genuine. Don’t be a shallow egotistical musician. There are too many others out there willing to be humble to get where they want to go and music promoters are unlikely to want to deal with any of your tantrums or diva sessions.
- The top mistake musicians can make is having a gross misunderstanding of what recording industries are looking for and what they may expect from a new band. Try to imagine a record company as being like a bank. If what you have to offer does not seem like an investment that will pay off in the future, they will not loan you the money. But a bank decides what you get by how good your credit is right? Right, and that’s why if you have routinely made any of the rest of the nine mistakes in music promotion. You may not have the ‘credit’ that a record company wants to see in their investments.
Trust me, these tips work, use them!
The great idea for this article came from here, I knew this could be important information for most young musicians looking for the right things to do to help promote their music!
