Why You Need To Play Live

Four Reasons Why Your Band Needs Gigs

Nov 30, 2007 Brandon Marcel Cherry

Find out a few of the top reasons that every band needs to play live.

Just as it is important for a musician to record an album it is important that this musician also plays live. Playing live brings your fans and potential fans right before you. Once this happens you open the gates to many great things and promotions. Here are three reasons why you as a musician need to play live.

Playing live at shows gives you immediate feedback to songs by crowd reactions. If a song is a true hit the listens will surely let you know and if a song is a dud you’ll figure that out to. You also get a chance to work on other important things like imaging. While you are still a little known artist is the best time to practice and change your image around. Once you’re more well known the public may be reluctant to take to any new image changes you make.

You won’t know what works.

No other way puts you this close to potential fans. You have a huge opportunity of converting people into fans at live shows in ways that only a cd could never do. The greater the show and songs the greater the response should be. Once you get a killer show together expect more gig requests to follow.

Playing live is a great way of getting fans.

Not just by album sells, but from the live performances themselves. Starting out a musician can usually expect a percentage of the door (money collected at the door per person), but as your fan base grows and enhances you should begin to get guarantees. Guarantees are when you begin to get paid an amount regardless of how many people show up any given night. This is why live performances are such an important thing to musicians in terms of salary.

Playing live brings in money.

Many times as a group begins to grow locally members of the press will begin to take note and start looking for a chance to catch a show of the artist. Write ups in your local newspapers and magazines make for a killer press kit and also a great way to get word out about your band.

Playing live bring you press.

These are four reasons why you need to play live as a musician. It is highly important to the career of any musician that they play live. Your band will have been expected to have some level of on stage experience before any major label would sign you so give it a try.

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