The Prize Draw and first survey is live!
What better way to find out what we can do for you than by asking you - the musicians and music industry we serve - just what information and support are you looking for?
At the moment Easy Gigs has a big focus on learning, support and developing healthy environments to grow. We want to be able to offer you the very best in services, products and support that will aid your career from new to number 1.
As our CEO and lead mentor Jakk Locke is currently finishing the final project Creative Enterprise MSc at De Montfort University, he’s looking for musicians to quiz about what their needs and wants are from the Mentoring, E-courses and online classes that they may be consuming. As a thank you Jakk wanted to offer something... and then the spark lit.
What if we thanked those by offering the services we supply, and their feedback would enhance? Seems like a big win-win scenario!
So we set up the prize draw - giving the chance to win big prizes and small ones too! Anyone who fills out our surveys during the time of July 21st to August 22nd will be entered into a weekly prize draw!
The survey results will be kept by us and not shared with any other groups or businesses. For Jakk to enter your feedback in his De Montfort University studies, you must confirm that you are ok with your feedback being used in Jakk’s project - as an extra thank you for this inconvenience we’ll give you a second entry into the prize draw! Really big thank you for this.
And to be inclusionary to those who don’t want to fill the surveys or can’t, we opened the prize draw up for people to make an entry as our way of saying thank you to all our fans and supporters who have helped keep us inspired and motivated - even if we’ve nothing to offer you directly!
We thank everyone that takes the time to enter and fill in the surveys, and we look forward to sharing out the prizes with our many winners over the next few weeks!
So if you’d like to enter, please visit www.easygigs.co.uk/prize-draw to enter the prize draw and www.easygigs.co.uk/surveys to view the growing list of surveys.
Our first survey is on Mentorships - Check it out!
Once again, a big thank you to everyone who does this. We’re really interested in hearing what you have to say!
Getting over the “perfectionism problem”
Perfectionism is one of the single biggest dangers people face when creating original work.
It comes from our ego demanding unrealistic expectations and heavily criticising what we are actually capable of.
When we place high value on the work that we have to do (“it has to be the best song ever” or “I need this to be good so I can pay my bills” or “I have to create something that will be loved & remembered for generations”) we ultimately limit our creative abilities due to extreme precision, stress and narrow viewpoint.
Even worse — It can slowly destroy your confidence in yourself.
None of those lend themselves to creating great work fast — Look at the long awaited (15 years!) and poorly received “Chinese Democracy” by Guns N’ Roses. The perfectionism of frontman Axl Rose cost the music industry $13 million!
It can even hit you so hard you don’t produce anything at all.
Perfectionism is the voice in your head that tells you “It’ll never be good enough.” Once your confidence falls, so does your musical abilities
Some easy ways to get over this are:
Address your perfectionism in your art
Intentionally create sloppy, unusual and messy work — the best cure for writer's block is to write “gah! I have writers block!” and continue writing.
Leaving your “perfectionism” project to start and complete a simple one.
Getting feedback, reviews and constructive criticism
Remember that all art is subjective — You can’t please everybody.
Work with a new teacher, tutor or mentor to learn new material, rehearse and develop past your existing limitations
Get out of your own headspace and do something new.
Make the commitment to overcome perfectionism and keep moving forward.
“If you’re embarrassed by something, it means you spent too long on it” — Brian Rose of London Real