I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at

podcast. Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear at Podcast.

Today we're going to give you seven ways to prepare for a gig.

Oh man, I don't want to prepare for a gig.

Can I just wing it every time?

Yes, you can.

And then that'll be your last gig. No, I think this is, this is good. This is important. You know, we're always talking about one of the ways to, like, not be nervous and to get gigs is to be prepared for them. So I think it's good that we're actually talking about how to prepare for them. You see how we do it on the You'll Hear podcast? We dig deep. First, we just tell you prepare. That was a couple of weeks ago. Then you're smart because you stuck around with us every day. Now we're going to give you seven ways to prepare to prepare.

That's right. All right. Why you kick it off, Adam? So our number one way to prepare is to research, aka listen. Right. Number one. Thus leading to you'll hear it. That's right. No, so this is really the most important thing to prepare for a gig. You've got to know what's going to be on the gig, right? Sometimes you don't need to do much research if someone sends you a big fat email full of all the charts and tunes and MP3s or whatever.

Well, you still got to listen to them once you receive them. Yeah. But, you know,

you can also just do some research about who you're playing with it. Do a quick Google search,

do a YouTube search, do a iTunes search, Spotify search. Do a research on who the other musicians

are if you don't know them. I noticed you mentioned Spotify,

YouTube, what was the other one? iTunes. iTunes. You didn't mention a card catalog search.

No, no, no, no. They don't need to do that at the library? No, I'm not 80 years old. That's the thing.

No, but it is a good idea to know who you're playing with and to figure out, you know, what they play like.

And then research as much as you can, what tunes you're going to play. Sometimes you might

not know because maybe the band leader is not, you know, forthcoming with that information.

But if you can get as your hands on as much of the information that's going to be on the

gig as possible beforehand, all the better.

You know, research recordings of the people that are on there and really try to know the music before you even step foot in the rehearsal room.

Yeah, and in this day and age, we really have no excuse for not being prepared.

So even if somebody sends you, as you refer to it, the big fat email, was that a pH kind of email? Yeah, a PDF-H fat fat. So even if they send that, and so say they have like a studio recording from one of their albums of one of the tunes and the music, and you kind of look at it and say, oh, I'm ready with this. What I like to do on that, and I've actually done this very recently, is then go to YouTube and see if there's any live performances, recent ones. Totally. So then you know how that particular artist or that band does things. I mean, it doesn't get any better than seeing them two nights ago, even if it's somebody's crappy Instagram, you know, video of the gig, but then you can see how it's actually going now.

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