Please Do Not Fight Alternative / Rock / Indie
http://www.myspace.com/pleasedonotfight
You need to evaluate your goals and then break them down. Let’s say your goal is to “Be a successful band”. Okay, that’s a start but it’s an awfully vague goal. Everyone has a different definition of success and you should think about what you, as a group, want to really accomplish. This also helps align everyone’s intentions within the band. Start by being more specific. One of your larger goals could be to “Make a living performing and recording original music” awesome! That’s a great goal to have and very well defined. Still on it’s own it’s still pretty overwhelming. Where do you start with that? It’s better to plan short term while keeping with the INTENT of the larger goal in mind. Doing things this way helps you roll with the punches a lot more. When we first started out our main goal was just that but then we broke it down—first the goal was to record an album. So we planned everything that went along with that: Booking recording time, rehearsing songs, networking with other bands to build interest, preparing album art etc. etc. etc. That’s all a lot more manageable and when broken down resulted in us also accomplishing other things we needed to do—networking primarily. Then we set the goal of going on tour in the winter. When THAT goal was broken down we found we had to make time to rehearse a set and play a lot of local shows in preparation. So that one very simple goal accomplished a lot of things. Also by focusing on short term goals we were able to relieve a lot of pressure from ourselves personally—no one felt overwhelmed and when our drummer decided to leave after our short term goal was accomplished we were able to adjust future goals to work within that. I do think it’s crucial no to plan TOO MUCH stuff at once. -Zen, guitar/lead vocals
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