Hello guys .. period a bit 'full and I can not write with the consistency I want, but I noticed that a little' breathing and is also used to be assimilitati best articles from readers ... We'll see! Today I would like to put on the plate some of the experiences I gained (along with many friends and musicians) and discuss it with you: it is how to behave when you go to play . This is a fairly broad discussion, I want to thrash out. Suppose you have to do a gig in a pub, club or something (such situations captain at all).
1. The punctuality! is too important to be precise in this respect. If you have agreed on a schedule, stick to it. It seems trivial, but it's amazing how the delay (and in some cases, the advance payment) can irritate those who work with you. If one or more band members have other commitments (work or other similar things) and are unable to comply with the time it is good to notify the organizer of the evening with a good notice.
2. On stage, order! Avoid installing all your instruments and start playing, even when the drummer is still unloading the truck or his car. Rather, help and plan to mount everything without stepping on the foot. This rule applies if you play three times in a place where there is no noise and the sounds you need to do. To play there will be time to soundcheck and during the evening, it makes no sense to try the stairs, slap or paradiddle when maybe there is still all wired microphones. Assemble the equipment, make sure everything is ok, and then try to help others.
3. The soundcheck . Try to work with the engineer. The engineer is your best friend . He probably will give the operator the most important review about your performance. Do whatever he tells you, and says nothing when not playing! During the check, play with the intensity with which performed in concert (ie especially for singers and drummers, who have a tendency to keep a lot and then unleashed later, with a consequent imbalance in the volumes of instruments). When you decide which tools to have in light, be ordered. One at a time ask what you want to hear in the monitor, the others must be ready to play in order to speed up (ok example: singer: "I get up the guitar in spy?" Guitar "SBREEEENG" not ok example: singer: "I get up the guitar in spy?" guitar "eh wait ... I turned off all aspe rekindling, wait, etc. etc...") Once made the sounds, try only a couple of pieces and go eat. Avoid having a concert at seven in the evening, nobody cares and will not make it down the batteries.
4. Behaviour in local . This seems obvious, but I've seen things you people would not even imagine. You are not at home. You guests. Burps, farts, swears and screams (!) Are not allowed. Try not to overdo the eating and drinking (especially before the concert), especially in places where you go for the first time (in my experience there are many hospitality operators, who are happy to make you gulp, but you can not know from before) . If the girlfriends or wives or friends you have followed since soundcheck, the operator must know in order to organize the dinner (and probably must pay, as it should). Again, things seem trivial and obvious, but I've seen all sorts really.
End of the first part:)
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