{"id":7417,"date":"2016-09-14T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=7417"},"modified":"2016-09-14T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:00:19","slug":"how-to-warm-up-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/how-to-warm-up-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Warm Up The Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7418\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/digitaldjtips.com_.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: digitaldjtips.com\" width=\"559\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/digitaldjtips.com_.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/digitaldjtips.com_-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: digitaldjtips.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A little while ago, I wrote about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/playing-to-an-empty-room\/\">benefits of playing to an empty room<\/a>. Sometimes it just happens. You show up for your gig only to find that there&#8217;s little more than a handful of people milling about.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do to get the room ready for the headliner? There&#8217;s a fine line here, right? You can&#8217;t just play the best dance music at the beginning of the night. You can&#8217;t raise the energy to an electric hum so early in the evening. So, what&#8217;s left to do?<\/p>\n<p>Check out our tips then add your own:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find out what the club or venue expects you to play. Do they want you to play a similar genre of music that the headliner will be playing or something different?<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t get there on time. Get there early! If you&#8217;re early, you have time to check the gear and make sure you have everything you need to play a smooth set. Get friendly with the staff, too.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t overlook the small stuff, like dress code, pay, fees &#8230; anything else that you can think of that doesn&#8217;t seem like a big deal until it suddenly is.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you&#8217;ve brought along more playlists than you&#8217;ll actually need. You never know what&#8217;s going to happen. So, always go prepared.<\/li>\n<li>Remember, it&#8217;s all about the headliner, not you. As you&#8217;re warming up the room, keep the headliner and his or her needs at the forefront of your mind. If you do that, everyone will like you that much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over to you: I have no doubt that a lot of you can offer even more tips thanks to your own unique experiences. Let us know what you would add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">A little while ago, I wrote about the benefits of playing to an empty room. Sometimes it just happens. You show up for your gig only to find that there&#8217;s&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2152,903],"tags":[4286,4387,4385,4386],"views":1938,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7419,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions\/7419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}