You’d think that sound checks would be simple. You plug in your gear, you make sure it comes through the monitors, and you get off stage. Yet it never goes that way. While there’s no way to solve all the issues (i.e. poor communication, lack of respect of leadership, etc) you can boost your odds that things will go well by following these 7 steps:

PerformanceEric BarfieldNovember 12, 2014Worship Sound check, How to do a sound check, How to run a sound check, Sound checkComment

Mainstage Mondays: How To Use Patch Busses

This week’s topic isn’t that sexy, but patch busses are an important and interesting part of Mainstage 3, and can solve a lot of small problems.

7 Warning Signs You Need Collaborators

Most musicians are Lone Rangers. We prefer to trust a chosen few people to be our Tontos, and spend most of our lives toiling in isolation. There's nothing wrong with that, if you happen to be a genius in every area of expertise that it takes to make you a successful musician. Here's my top 7 warning signs that I'm not handing off enough stuff:

Music BusinessEric BarfieldNovember 5, 2014Collaboration, Collaborating, Collaborator, Eric Barfield, Music CollaborationComment

Mainstage Mondays: How to Use the Drawbar Organ

This week I show musicians how to use the drawbars on a Mainstage drawbar organ plugin.

Eric BarfieldNovember 3, 2014 Comments

Sticky Stories and Social Media

remember them much longer. Yet every day I get on my Facebook feed, and I see the same predictable post from my musician friends: check out my page! Like it! GO AHEAD, LIKE IT!! PLEASE!!!!!!!

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