You're a five person band. Cool. But there's a problem: You don’t live in the same city, much less the same state. The solution? Use Basecamp to stay organized.
The band Fundamental Elements (MySpace page) wrote up a summary of how they use Basecamp to manage recording and gigging even though they're miles apart from each other:
People are often surprised to find out that the five of us don’t live in the same city, much less the same state (Joe and Russ in MO, Mark and Luke in IL, and Dustin in IA). There are obviously challenges to stay connected and organized when we’re all apart. One of the tools that we’ve found helpful in keeping us organized is a project management web application called Basecamp by 37signals.About a year ago we set up a Basecamp account and started with a single project: “winning a grammy” (go big or go home right?). One of our first goals as a band has been to release a new album with our current lineup of musicians that is more true to our live sound. With Basecamp we were able to set up a list of milestones and to-do lists that we would need to accomplish in order to complete that goal.
At this point, we’re almost finished with recording the album and we’re been using Basecamp as a central place to discuss things like an album title and song order. Basecamp has provided the means for all of us to have a joint conversation even though we’re living in different locations and keeping very different schedules.
