Likestodrum334
Junior Member
Hey all. It has been a long time since i have been on here so if there is another thread with this information sorry for the repost and please direct me toward it.
So i am pretty new to the gigging world and i am still trying to figure out what the best way is to go about things when it comes to getting paid gigs consistently. My band and I are trying to get to the point to where we are playing paid shows every single week, hopefully 2-3 a week. We have been focusing all of our practices into learning covers because we figured thats what would get us regular shows. We are doing a lot of rock and blues like the Beatles, Black Sabbath, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The allman Bros, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Rolling Stones, the kinks, and so on.
Is this type of music going to actually get us gigs that pay? or would it be better to maybe learn danceable music tunes that get the crowd moving like more mainstream pop tunes? Or should we try and keep it more current and learn stuff that came out more recently? Seems like there are a lot of gigs for lower volumes acoustic guitar type stuff maybe we should learn stuff where i play a cajon rather than my drum kit and my guitarist plays his acoustic and sings with the bassists amp turned real low?
So what do you guys recommend my band puts on our setlist for covers? We are up to playing just about any genre as long as it helps us play paid gigs regularly. I am so new when it comes to playing paid gigs weekly and any advice from someone who has been doing it for a while and already knows how to score them would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks
So i am pretty new to the gigging world and i am still trying to figure out what the best way is to go about things when it comes to getting paid gigs consistently. My band and I are trying to get to the point to where we are playing paid shows every single week, hopefully 2-3 a week. We have been focusing all of our practices into learning covers because we figured thats what would get us regular shows. We are doing a lot of rock and blues like the Beatles, Black Sabbath, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The allman Bros, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Rolling Stones, the kinks, and so on.
Is this type of music going to actually get us gigs that pay? or would it be better to maybe learn danceable music tunes that get the crowd moving like more mainstream pop tunes? Or should we try and keep it more current and learn stuff that came out more recently? Seems like there are a lot of gigs for lower volumes acoustic guitar type stuff maybe we should learn stuff where i play a cajon rather than my drum kit and my guitarist plays his acoustic and sings with the bassists amp turned real low?
So what do you guys recommend my band puts on our setlist for covers? We are up to playing just about any genre as long as it helps us play paid gigs regularly. I am so new when it comes to playing paid gigs weekly and any advice from someone who has been doing it for a while and already knows how to score them would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks