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Touring Guitarist Handbook: 101 Secrets to Survive, Thrive, and Succeed as a Traveling Guitarist Who Plays Live Music on the Roadis a no-nonsense look at how to prepare for and execute tour as a guitarist. Whether you’re setting out on your first independent tour, or you’ve been asked to play a few dates with a national act as they travel through your region, the book aims to give advice to players of all skill and experience levels who are looking to set out on the road and make life easier for themselves while doing it. It is full of tips and advice from an expert guitarist who has toured all across the western United States and Canada in both headlining and supporting roles.
From how to plan which cities to include on your tour, how to arrange your pedals and effects for the best live tone, how to interact with bandmates and fans, and much, much more, this book offers guitar players tips that really work to make the touring experience easier and more enjoyable. The authors worked hard to include topics that are sometimes overlooked by the average musician – such as how to make sure the gear in your trailer is properly balanced to avoid damage, how to make sure your social media and marketing is at the top of its game, or how to deal with a check made out to the band’s name instead of yours.
The range of information covered is comprehensive, and many topics are discussed in great detail. For example, the section on effects and their uses offers players a mountain of advice that can be useful whether you’ve been playing guitar for five months or five decades.
The book is written in a conversational tone and is easy to read. Complex gear topics are thoroughly explained in a way that can be understood no matter what your experience level with electronics or audio processing. One of the other unique features of this book is the wholistic nature in which it treats the touring process. The authors consider your relationship to your audience and your bandmates to be just as important (if not, indeed, more so) than which amplifier to buy, or where to set your compressor in your effects chain. As such, it’s full of practical advice on how to deal with boredom on the road, how to interact with different individual personalities, and even an explicit explanation of what most of the other musicians in your band need from their guitarist!
Touring Guitarist Handbook is a how-to manual for the guitarist who is ready to take his or her act on the road. Rock, blues, soul, funk, country, and jazz players alike will all find interesting tips and techinques to help them along the way, and don’t worry, there’s plenty of information for acoustic players, too. Whether you’re a solo act, a duet, a power trio, or a full-fledged rock and roll revival, the information in Touring Guitarist Handbook is for you.
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