The Indie Report

Grow your performance like your career depends on it!

By Jay Warsinske.

Remember some of the MOST MEMORABLE shows you’ve experienced, where the musicians’ moves, the right part of a song, & the lighting and look just COMBINED in an UNFORGETTABLE ‘spine tingling’ moment!?!

Those aren’t normally happening ‘by chance’! You think that PRO Football or Basketball team just ‘shows up’ and ‘plays ball’?! HELL NO! Everything is coordinated, calculated & choreographed to MAXIMIZE the natural abilities & skills of the players involved! Same with PRO Artists & especially BANDS. If 4 or 5 guys are just in ‘their own worlds’ that you just have ‘music’ and NOT a ‘show’! This is ‘SHOW BUSINESS” & customers paying ‘hard earned money’ DEMAND their money’s worth in a SHOW!

The IDEA is to think out your show, a STRONG OPENER, a SOLID FINALE, & of course a nice pacing of songs, moods, & experiences between that ‘paint a picture’ of you as an ARTIST! Kind of like a ‘movie’, where the pacing, the highlights and the flow makes for a GREAT EXPERIENCE!

Top PROS like INDIEPOWER & others can consult you to break your show down & build it back up with all the right elements to MAXIMIZE YOUR SHOW! That can separate an act struggling to get a HEADLINER to take you SERIOUSLY to have you a part of their Tour, or elevate an opening act from an opening act to a HEADLINE ATTRACTION! Look at LADY GAGA, love or hate her music – she went from an opening act to a major ARENA HEADLINER in less than 2 years with an outstanding show!

One great source to reference is TOM JACKSON’s DVD series ‘Workshop For The Performing Musician’, where he has different DVDs on all the major subjects needed.. A GREAT RESOURCE to build your ideas on, & get PROS to help take YOUR SHOW to the major stages of the world!

www.tomjacksonproductions.com & www.INDIEPOWER.com