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rent a garage a warehouse a closed watchmaking workshop a dusty attic few farms on the remote countryside a cave at your parents house some cool shared space in a shared squat a public school gymhall during summer holidays a camping canteen during winter months couple of rooms in a unused mental asylum one of those windowless fungus smelling underground atomic shelters an electric plant with a massive but now silent diesel motor a useless fruit storing room an abandonned shooting camp on the hill a grain silo with endless reverberation a dead sounding pay-by-the-hour bandroom with fixed backline and crowded calendar your uncle’s garden shack your aunt’s carnotzet a marching band depot your wohngemeinschaft living room

so you can turn it into a rehearsal space a hidden place that looks like you and feels like home to jam together or by yourself before the working day starts or after its end add few walls some doubled doors and a good dose of eggboxes to make it a recording studio a private discoclub a video green box a secret bar an underground movie theater

then gather friends who know or would like to learn how to play instruments borrow amps seek deals for cheap drumsticks and stringsets tweak knobs change tubes read schematics check tutorials fix jacks plug stuff crack out-of-your-league plugins contribute to open source daws write or steal lyrics spend time in record stores find sound references produce songs hit pads arrange beats place microphones tune drumshells patch cables reamp guitars combine amplifiers trig drums trick synths combine pedals harmonize vocal lines simplify geeky riffs enrich boring licks sample sounds mix noise

so you can start a band a tribe a collective an exclusive or collaborative solo project a backing band a big band a vocal ensemble a dancing squad a militant brigade a micro art fair an alternative think tank a tonverein or horizontal association a circle of poets a crew a sonic family a private mob a formal or unformal group of human beings dedicated to make music or talk about it

then seek relatives who’s job is or soon will be to send emails make calls draw logos design cover artworks chose fonts write biographies shoot pictures promote stuff build strategies upload data organize files enjoy accounting handle taxes run a shop ship parcels wait at the post office stock stamps order boxes deliver vinyls engrave dubplates duplicate tapes burn cd’s print tshirts stick posters copy flyers meet pros amateurs fans and partners manage human resources and authorizations fish for fundings understand laws trick rules communicate messages

so you can join a scene meet other artists talk to journalists and politicians find a wide or intimate audience make new friends who resemble you gather people one wouldn’t expect to see together fight for recognition explore intelligent ways to deal with fame support causes weight your weight

then jump on your feet hop on a shared bus recycle your old friend’s van rent a car with enough trunk space ride a bike sneak overweight suitcases in an intercity train sail a river boat hitch-hike couchsurf find creative solutions to avoid painful planes

so you can go on tour sleep on unknown people’s floor squat your friends’ sofas get bored in highway motels feel lonely in poshy hotels hire buddies to carry heavy flightcases rental amplifiers and collapsing merchboxes drive countless hours at night share memorably funny talks in trafic jams read books on the backseat briefly meet new people after sound curfew hug old friends before loading in use rare expensive days off to visit exotic towns sleep longer eat healthier feel better give your aging throat a break support massive bands in hip venues pack local bars play for nobody get doordeals sell presales pray for walk-ins trust promoters book houseshows on the way to festivals damn showcases and online sessions think about life reset your agenda on the way back home enjoy time at your appartment spend time by yourself chill with a lover cook with a flatmate visit a parent or two cuddle your housepet go out for groceries launch a washing machine pay urgent bills scroll your feed for a second before you start it all over again