[Harp-L] re: communication



If you want to be in a band you need to know how to communicate both on and off the stage. Musicians practice alone for hours everyday and tend to lack in social skills. Social skills are as important or more important than musical skill when you're in a band. The band needs to come up with a set list, decide on the volume, when to practice, where to practice, the venue, the genre, the solos, deal with the bar owner, schmooze with store owners so the band can put up posters, try to con the radio and the newspapers into giving the band free publicity charm the audience, try to build a fan base--the list goes on and on. Actual playing is only a small part of the band experience.

The Dead had an almost telephatic stage rapport but they also developed a variation of parliamentary procedure and had lengthy meetings regularly to discuss all the nuts and bolts of being in a band.

So whether the harp player plays though the whole song or just solos through a verse and chorus is one of the millions of things the band talks about.

Rainbow Jimmy
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http://www.soundclick.com/theelectricstarlightspaceanimals.htm





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