How To Find And Form A Successful Music Group for All Kinds of Music
So far as I can tell there is no other book with this kind of information for the beginner to intermediate player looking for ways to meet others and go public. Although there are advice columns on the Net about equipment and how to find an agent or to publish songs, there is nothing out there that describes the ins and outs of how to put an independent music group together and do it in a way that avoids the pain which comes more often than not from ill will and disrespect.
The book has material for the jazz, blues, folk, and rock scenes. However, what is covered will work with any kind of music and with groups of two or twenty.
The book has three major sections: You, the single player, the Group, and Going Public.
There are several kinds of focus here:
• tips on how to describe yourself as a musician
• formats of how to practice
• suggestions for song making and song changing
• procedures for finding others like yourself, starting a group, and structuring rehearsals.
• ideas of ways to find places to play and suggestions on how to deal with the public.
This book looks at the experience of playing together and examines how interactions work, how consistency, transparency, and civility are more than important - they are essential.
My goal is to suggest strategies and list some details for the small as well as the large playing situations. Hopefully the book will act as a kind of reference text for the many parts of playing music alone and with groups.
If you have any questions about the book, contact me at coolea@cox.net
