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(For the purpose of this article I’m going to make a couple of assumptions before I go any further. They are that you’ve a little bit of vocal or musical instrument knowledge and that you also have a fledgling network of companions and contacts)
Starting up a band is a  surprisingly exhilarating time in a musicians life. There’s a fine balance of nervous anticipation and the fear of the unknown that follows the whole process.
A band has a different dynamic than working as a solo artist. There are other people involved, other individual ities, other strengths and weaknesses in character and abilities and because of this it is really vital that you’ve a few things worked out before you start looking for band members.
1. Have a nice idea of your own strengths and weaknesses
The band members that you want to get will need to be around the same level of competence as you are. The central reason for this is that you could all grow together rather than have one or two musicians carrying everybody else. This type of player imbalance causes doubt in the group and doubt is one of the major killers of bands.
2. Know beforehand how the band is going to be run
Is the band going to be run by you or the whole group? The individual ity types of the musicians that you choose will need to be agreeable to the way the band is going to be run.
3. What instrumentation is the band having in its lineup?
This is mainly determined by the type(s) of music that you want to play but having an idea of what musicians you’re looking for will be of wonderful advocate.
It’s now time to hunt down some band members
4. Ask your network of companions and/or contacts
This is always a nice place to start. Ask everybody that you know or come into contact with. If you don’t have much of a circle of companions and/or contacts this will be a wonderful occasion to wide n it. This is one of the reasons why networking in the industry is so vital, for occasions such as this.
Having a musician referred to you has a much better occasion of working than one that comes from an advertisement. This leads me onto my next point.
5. Post an advertisement
Having said that I’ve had made some wonderful contacts from musicians enquiring from a ‘muso wanted’ ad. The key to effective ads is that they need to be concise, to the point, not too lengthy and put in places where musicians are  surprisingly prefer ly to see it and read it prefer in a music shop, a regional music magazine or a music classifieds web site.
A sample ‘ musician wanted’ advertisement could read something prefer this:
BASS PLAYER WANTED
To join folk/rock band
Influences include
Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Counting Crows
Some experience prefer red
Own gear and transport essential
Interested?? Give me a call
Corey – (put home and/or cellular phone  number here)
As you could see, the ad is obvious in its intention.
It obvious ly states the musician wanted, the type of music the band is playing, what the music could sound prefer and that the band has some experience behind it. Make sure you’ve a obvious contact name and phone numbers (if you want to include an email address as well that’s cool).
Do not put in stuff prefer ‘work waiting’ or ‘no time has been ters please’. You could judge those sort of things yourself when an interested musician contacts you.
Once you’ve done that the waiting game begins.