So your band has cut it's fingers getting the riffs right, the tracks are tight, but no one knows about you?

Of course everyone has heard of band's making it big on Myspace... but how do you do it?

Well, it's really easy!

To start with, you want to create a band profile (which is different from a regular Myspace Profile).
Go to the top of the page at myspace.com , select "Music" from the number of categories spread horizontally.
Click on it to go the to the Myspace Music page select "Artist Signup".
Fill out your bands details and you'll be sorted.

What to do if you've jumped the gun and set your band space to a regular profile?

Don't stress!

You can easily transform your personal profile into a band profile.
Firstly, Login to Myspace with your personal account details and then paste this link into your browser: http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=BandProfile.convert


That will convert give you access to all the extra bad profile features.

So whats next?

Once you've filled out all your band's details, gigs and even added a few of your tracks to the standard Myspace Player, you'll want to make a few changes to the design. Afterall, the standard Myspace design is pretty bland.

To set your band apart from the rest go to : http://www.profilepitstop.com/layout_generator/index.php

It's pretty straight forward -you create your own layout (colours text etc), run through and mess around with all the settings. Once you are satisfied with your layout, click "Generate Layout". It will provide the code for your Myspace profile. You can copy and paste the code yourself, or you can skip the hard stuff and just add your details, and hit submit. It will apply your design to your layout, live, without changing any of your band's details.
It's easy.
It rock's.

There are many other options on profilepitstop.com to amp up your band's profile.

Photography 101

Have you taken all your band's pics with your cell phone? ...They might look good on the small screen but they usually look terrible once you put them up on the web.

A better idea: borrow your friends digi-camera and follow these steps and get quality pics of your band using these ideas:

Three quick tricks to take low-light photos

1) Focus on something that is at the same distance from the camera as your main subject, but which is in better light and have better contrast. Depress shutter release half-way to lock the focus, then reframe on your main subject and take the shot.

2) If you are in a somewhat controlled situation, you might want to move your subject to where there is more light, or even turn on all the lights in the room temporarily so as to get a focus lock first.

3) If your camera has manual focus, use it.

Anyway, there are few tips to get your started. If you STILL aren't happy with your profile or you just couldnt be bothered doing it yourself, Send us an email. We'd be happy to do a custom layout for you. Something that really stands out!

Of course we want a copy of your first album and tickets to your gigs... maybe a free drink or two? ; )

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