Becoming A Rock Star Download

As a kid in the early 90's and 00's I loved listening to rock music and being in a band was the coolest thing I could think of. Back in those days I remember seeing and hearing a lot of bands on TV, radio and the internet. These days however, it seems like not many rock bands reach any kind of worldwide big success and a long lasting career in the music business. I'm not sure if I have heard about any rock act selling out stadiums on their own except some old legends from the "good old days"? Has the genre lost its excitement and offered us everything it has to offer? Are new bands just not as good and exciting as older bands? Is the genre left behind in these days of technology where other genres are progressing with better production quality etc.?

My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star is an American sitcom television series starring Oliver Hudson. The series premiered March 14, 2002 on The WB. It is based on the British series The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star.[1][2]

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Becoming a bona fide rock star takes years of musical practice, a killer look and sound, a spellbinding personality, and a lot-- I repeat, a LOT-- of good luck. (Connections in the music industry also help.)

In this Instructable, I'll show you different ways to break into a music scene and to perfect your looks and talent in preparation for getting signed onto a label.

But readers beware: getting signed is only the beginning of the long road to rock stardom. The road will probably involve a lot of sacrifices before you get to the pinnacle of fame and fortune. You may even have to sell your own soul to get there. True story.

Think about what you want to do and be as a rock star before moving on. Here are a few sample questions to think about:

What kind of rock star do you want to be?

What genre of rock do you want to specialize in?

Right now, how good are you at what you want to be doing?

Do you want to be part of a band?

If so, what kind of band? What instruments will be in it?

Most importantly, do you get along well with other people?

What kind of personality do you have? (This is important if you want to be in a band.)

Do you like being the center of attention?

(Be the lead singer. Prerequisites: Must be able to carry a tune.)

Do you really suck at singing, but still want to get attention from fans?

(Be the lead guitarist. Prerequisites: Nimble fingers and the ability to jam on a guitar.)

Do you like being in the background without much to do?

(Be the bassist. Prerequisites: Tough fingers.)

Do you like being in the background, and are tone deaf?

(Be the drummer. Prerequisites: Hand-eye coordination and a great sense of rhythm.)

Not everyone can be in a band, and not all bands work out. Group harmony is difficult to achieve, especially if not all of you are hell-bent on becoming rock stars.

If you have the luxury to, choose your bandmates wisely. Ideally, they should all have the personal qualities we are going to be discussing here: Great sound, great look, great personality, particularly when working with others. (Shyness not allowed, unless it's the bassist.)

...and for God's sake, learn it well!!!

If you don't already have your instrument, go out and get it ASAP if you really want to do this. I don't care if you got it secondhand from your dad or if you scrimped and saved for years just to buy it. You need to have it if you really want to use it.

As for learning...

Guitar, and other instruments

If you're going to play the guitar, then practice, practice, practice. Practice makes perfect is the motto here, especially if you never learned how to play your instrument as a child. Practice until your fingertips are calloused. Practice until your ears are bleeding. Practice until you can play whatever you're learning backwards and forwards and blindfolded.

Vocals

If you're serious about this, SING AS MUCH AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. Learn exactly how to carry a tune, and develop your lungs so that you can carry a tune as far down the field as it can go. Learn how to scream and shout in key. (Unless you want to be in a screaming punk band, in which case... I'm not sure if screaming in key really matters.) And learn how to project confidence and emotion through your voice.

Note: You might be self-conscious of practicing within hearing range of roommates, next-door neighbors, etc. Don't be. The true first step to becoming a rock star is learning to lose your social inhibitions.

If you're still scared, plug some headphones into your amplifier or go find a soundproof room. But don't use your search for a soundproof room as an excuse to not practice.

The best way to learn is to DO

Write your own music. Add your own lyrics. If you don't know how to write music, just record it. People can become great musicians without knowing music theory-- even without knowing how to read music. The trick is to listen to a lot of it and just recognize the patterns. (If you're tone deaf, I'm really sorry, but you're probably screwed on this one...)

For this step, you'll need to bring forward the best-looking, best-dressed, most confident parts of yourself, and you'll need to polish them until they shine.

So: Who are you, really?

(Note: If you're a self-professed diehard geek, or if you refuse to conform to the majority's standards of beauty, you've come to the wrong place.)

Looks

I'm not gonna lie to you, the music industry is superficial. It's superficial because beauty sells.

If you want to be a star, you need to be a moneymaker. So if you need to be stick-thin, do it. If you need braces, get them (or move to the UK or Japan, where teeth aren't as big a deal... yet). If you've got flaws, cover them up.

If you're over the age of forty, good luck to you-- it might be too late to become a rock star already. Youth is the most precious commodity in the entertainment industry. You better either be a young-looking forty, or you better be damned good-looking and good at your instrument.

I told ya and I warned ya: You're gonna have to sell your soul.

Clothes

If you've got the body already, find the clothes that you're most comfortable in, and pick out the styles that you love the most. You should get an idea of your personal style this way, but you need to glam it up for rock stardom. What kinds of clothes do you like looking at? What kind of image do you want to project? Do you like costumes?

Also-- don't dress to copy others; dress for authenticity. You can find 1970s-type ripped-up safety-pinned punk clothing anywhere, but the whole point was to do it yourself and get in touch with your own creativity. Retail punk is oxymoronic.

Confidence

Not all of us are perfect, and we can hide minor flaws by using easy-breezy confidence to draw people's attention away from them.

Tips? Stand up straight and stop looking at the floor.

Learn how to talk about anything and everything.

Smile.

Don't get too cocky; it's a turn-off.

If all else fails, use your relaxant of choice. But not too much of it.

Legitimacy

You know how rappers get street cred when they get arrested? A compelling backstory may possibly help propel you to the heights of stardom.

If you didn't grow up poor or in an abusive family and didn't suffer from depression or self-mutilation or drug addiction, don't worry-- you'll have to rely only on your looks and confidence and talent, but a lot of stars have gotten famous even without a horrible past.

Consistency

Like a politician, you have to make sure that you're fairly consistent once you get on the map. If you're getting popular doing Goth rock and you suddenly want to switch into Alternative punk, you're going to lose your fans. Pick one look and sound and try to stick with it. You can deviate a little bit, but you can't change too much (unless you're already famous and don't care about losing fans).

Two key questions for this step:

1. What kind of music do you want to play?

2. In which cities is that music the most popular?

If you're not in one of the cities that you wrote down for #2, I suggest moving there right quick, unless you plan on growing a following primarily through friends of friends and the Internet.

Once you're in one of those cities, start going to places that feature the music you want to play. Go to clubs. Go to bars. Go to your favorite boutiques or shops or tattoo and piercing parlors, and look at the flyers near the entrance that advertise nearby events. As you'll see, you can get into a lot of those events for free. Starving artists, take advantage of this.

Talk to people.

This is the perfect chance to build up your confidence, because you'll need it to become a star. Talk to groupies. Talk to the band members themselves. Talk to the bartenders and bouncers.

Listen to what they like to hear. Listen to their recommendations. If they're managers of a club, or other aspiring rock stars, so much the better. Keep in touch with them. Charm them. Show them your stage persona and what it can do.

Listen to TONS of music.

It should be in your genre, but it doesn't really matter as long as you're listening to as much music as you possibly can. You can't be a rock star if you aren't living and breathing music. Listen to whatever people recommend to you. Listen to and talk with street musicians. Go discover new bands online.

The goal is to be able to strike up a conversation about music with anyone, anytime, anywhere. If you're looking to network in the music business, this can and will come in handy, as it will in step 7.