Why You Need a Band Line-Up Builder as a Band Leader

Managing a band is more than just leading the group during a performance. You’re responsible for organising the gigs, issuing invoices and contracts and hardest of all, booking the musicians. A band line-up builder can help band leaders with this part of the process as it allows you to easily to see which musician is on what gig and which instrument needs booking.

How a band line-up builder works

Band line-up builders are quite a simple tool, they match up your musician’s instrument to your band’s instruments and tell you who’s playing what.

1. You ‘design’ your band by telling them software what instruments make up your band. E.g. bass, guitar, keys, vocals, drums, sax.
2. You then assign musicians to your gig and the line-up builder will show you what instruments you’ve filled and who you’re missing.

Adaptive for different band sizes

Most band builders, including ours, will allow you to store different band templates. For example you can have different templates depending on what you’re hired for. For example, 4 piece, 6 piece and an 8 piece band. Then you just assign the template to the event and let the builder do the work.

Band builders let you plan future gigs with ease

The screenshot above is from our band line-up builder. As you can see, we have three gigs, and from that you can see who is booked and who is missing.

With a line-up builder you have the ability to view a table of all your upcoming gigs and see who is booked for what instrument and who you still need to book. This allow for future planning much easily than managing your line-up one gig at a time.

Why you need a line-up builder for your band

The simple answer is ‘you’ll never forget to book a musician’ and that is the aim of a band line-up builder. Not only this, but they will often show who has confirmed the gig, which instruments are missing. With Band Pencil’s band line-up builder, we make it simple to see your line-up by colour coding and indicating every empty slot as ‘MISSING’.

If you’re managing more than one gig per month and you don’t always have set musicians playing on every gig, having a band line-up builder will save you so much time when it comes to booking musicians.