Teens generally follow a pattern when they learn to play a musical instrument.
1. They ask their parents for a drums, a guitar, a bass, and sometimes a keyboard.
2. They try to learn some things for themselves.
3. They ask for lessons.
4. Either someone comes to the house or the student goes to a store that sells musical equipment for those lessons.
5. At some point near the six-month mark, the student decides that he wants to form a garage band. At this point, he finds other children to play with or loses interest in playing.
6. If you meet others, the rehearsal is typically at the drummer’s home because the drummer cannot transport his equipment as easily as guitars.
to. At this point, the drummer’s mom gets tired of them always being at her house.
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B. There are two guitarists and one of them often has a conflict in his ability to get to rehearsal.
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vs. The band improves and they decide they want to perform.
7. In order to play the band you need to buy additional equipment: sound card, speakers, monitors, microphones.
to. Who pays for it?
B. Where do they keep it?
vs. Who does it belong to if the band breaks up?
8. If they cross this obstacle, they will have to find places to play. This requires someone in the band to take responsibility for finding teen clubs and centers and contacting them to find out how they can play there.
9. When you find a place to play, it is your responsibility to “promote the concert” and get your friends to come to your concerts. This means that someone has to design brochures and someone has to pay to print them.
10. The next hurdle is getting the equipment to the scene. Does each have a car big enough to transport their own equipment? What if they need to take their sound equipment with them?
11. They arrive at the club, ride and wait for a lot of people to come.
12. If 20 people show up, they’re lucky.
13. The band breaks down because they discover that it is much more difficult and requires more time than they imagined.
Many young musicians dream of being “discovered” like Justin Bieber. How realistic is this? Well, there are 6.5 million music videos on the leading video website and only ONE Justin Bieber. The odds are not in your favor.
How wonderful would it be for teenage musicians if someone took care of all this for them? It offered a place to rehearse. He had “house equipment”, so the drums, the sound boards, etc. they did not need to be transported from one place to another. I found other musicians with similar musical interests and similar abilities to play. Concerts reserved and marketed?