forMusicians.net is an initiative created by two young men of Barcelona (Spain), David Albertos (ex Inquietudes Fanzine) and Félix Javier Arbelo (vocals and guitar - El Último Ingenuo), without any help or public or private support. This initiative borns on December 31, 2005 after a year of hard work.
Felix J. Arbelo was part of an old band, which always lacked a drummer or a bassist for a concert or, for example, record a demo. Result of this experience and using the Internet as a channel, he believed necessary to create an effective system on the Internet that allows any musician to find and connect with other musicians of similar interests and influences.
In 2005, David Albertos was responsible for carrying out the hardest part of this initiative: development of each and every one of the services that forMusicians has and is adding over time. Both are the forMusicians.net Team
On forMusicians.net has place any musician, whether professional or amateur, interested in contacting other musicians with which to complete a project or a musical training, in order to perform concerts, record albums,....
Also, any person not related with the world of music that, for example, requires to contact with some musician to schedule concerts at his restaurant in a certain style of music, weddings, parties, etc..
forMusicians.net aims to be a meeting point where to put in contact all kinds of musicians: drums, bass, guitar, singer, ... And therefore, enhance music creation and the emergence of employment opportunities for musicians in countries and regions worldwide.
To this end, we ask only a previous process of "Register" and "Activation" of your email account, which is also free and will take you less than 5 minutes. Once registered and activated properly, you can access with your email and password with which you are registered.
No. forMusicians.net want to encourage the creation of musicians communities by country, so join the country that you reside. Still, you can view and contact with musicians from other countries.
forMusicians.net has a short life in which initially focused on supporting musicians from Spain and Latin America. Our intention is to expand this great community to other countries and languages. Any proposal in this regard is welcome.
Yes, it is possible if you register with another different email. However, it is advisable not to have more than one, if each additional user account is an unnecessary duplication of your profile.
forMusicians is a registered trademark. Still, it can be used for any purpose that has to do with the spread of the initiative (exchange of banners, links, DINA A3 posters, pamphlets, etc).
forMusicians.net aims to be a free and effective community for all those musicians and bands who are looking for other musicians. In this sense, only when there is a lot of registered users, forMusicians.net is an effective tool for everyone.
The registration on forMusicians.net is very simple and consists of three phases: "Register", "Activation" and creation of your "Musical Profile". Go to the country where you reside and complete the data of "Register", using the indications that appears along the process.
It is important to check the email you entered is correct before registering. Otherwise, you will not receive the activation email and, of course, other musicians can not contact with you.
The registration will take you less than 5 minutes but it is important to pay attention to all the information we request. You just have to do this process once.
forMusicians provides for each country the cities of more than 1,000 inhabitants, in order to standardize the names of the municipalities and provide a efficient search of musicians.
Once you´ve completed the process of registration, forMusicians.net will send to your email account an email to activate your account. To access the website you must activate your username and for this you only have to click on the link provided.
It is possible that your email provider has filtered the message in the Inbox of spam or unwanted mail, or even, he has been deleted it. To solve this problem, the first option is to return to forMusicians.net and search the menu option "Activation Email". Please, specify the email that you used to register and we´ll send a new activation email automatically.
If you still can not get no activation email, write to us from your email to forMusicians <> with the subject "manual activation" indicating your "Email", "User" and "Country" and we proceed to the activation of your user account manually.
Manual activation is aimed at all users who have failed to activate their account by theirselves. To do this, please send us an email with the subject "Manual Activation" indicating your email, username and country, and we proceed to your activation.
The activation of account has different objectives. First, it ensures that you are the true owner of the email. Secondly, it ensures you will receive all communications from forMusicians and the other users of the website.
Go to "Your Account", section "User Data" and enter the new email. You must activate your account again and for it, we will send you a new email to activate your new email.
To get information about the management of your personal information, go to Legal Notice. Remember that you can exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition of your personal information.
Yes, to access all the contents of the Website. It is the first information that other users will read to decide whether they contact you to propose musical projects or other proposals.
The musical profile is the way you present yourself to the other users of this community. The musical profile collects information about your level (professional or amateur), your skills with the instruments, music studies, experience, your preferred music style, your influences, your short-term availability to start new projects and any other comments you wish to add.
forMusicians tries to include the most common instruments and styles. However, we are open to try to reflect those features of each country. In this sense, you can send us any proposal.
To change from "Non-Musician" to Musician, you must delete your Musical Profile. To do this, you should go to "Your Account", option "Delete Musical Profile". Once deleted, you can create a new one.
Yes, you can delete your profile at any time. Go to the section "Your Account" and click on the option "Delete Musical Profile". Before that, make sure you delete your "Multimedia Content" (audios and videos).
If you have already successfully completed the registration and activation of your account previously, only you have to enter your email and password that you used to register to access your account.
Right next to the section "Access", in the left menu, you will find the option "Did you forget your password?" Write your email and forMusicians.net will automatically create a new password, which will be sent to the email with which you registered.
No. Your password is stored in our Database through a system of 160-bit SHA1 Encryption. For this reason, we can´t remember you your current password. Fill out the information requested on the section "Did you forget your password?" and you will receive a new password in your email.
forMusicians.net will send you a notification email when the user has read the message. To do this, you make sure you have this option ON when composing a message.
If you don´t wish to receive private messages from a particular user, you must click the icon "Block Author" that you´ll find by reading a private message. Always you can unlock the user in section "Not Allowed" of "Your Account".
Please, click the icon "Add to Favorites" that you´ll find by reading a private message or viewing a Musical Profile. You can always manage your favorites through the section "Favorite Users" of "Your Account".
Through the Search Musicians, whether you are professional, amateur or just an interested person to contact with musicians, you will find the musician that you´re looking for. To do this, you can consult the database of registered musicians and search by criteria such as instrument, style, profile (amateur or professional), among others.
"Related Musicians" shows you musicians related to your style of music that reside on your province. It´s a fast and easy way to see other musician profiles that you might find interesting.
No. forMusicians.net is a Musicians Community created to address some of the difficulties that appear when you start a musical project. We aren´t a management agency or representation. We encourage you to register for free and look for musicians by yourself.
When you find a Musical Profile that interests you, you have the possibility to send a private message free. To do this, you will have previously register.
The "Influences" service helps to look for and contact with other musicians who have similar influences. To do this, you must write the name of your favorite band or artist in the field created for this purpose. To obtain successful results, you must write the full name of the Band or Artist. Also, don´t forget to keep properly updated your influences in your Musical Profile, in order to be selected by other users.
It´s a "Tag Cloud" with the Artists/Bands most influential for musicians of forMusicians.net. This ranking is made from musical influences of the total raised by the musicians. Each country has a different tag cloud.
On forMusicians we care that the content of Classifieds is that users expect. To do this, any ad goes through a validation process. The validation process consists of a manual review of its content to verify that aspects such as category, description,..., fit with the theme of the website.
To ensure user privacy, personal data are omitted as telephone, email, address,... Anyone interested in your ad can contact for free via "Private Messages".
They are similar to ads you´re viewing. They have in common the province, style, instrument and type. In the absence of similar ads with these criteria, the application doesn´t appear.
To do this, view any of the ads published by this advertiser and click the numeric link that appears next to his name. In case of absence, it means that the user only has an ad.
No. You must delete your old ad and then create a new one. To delete an ad, you must go to "Your Account", in section "Your Ads", view your ad and click on "Delete Ad".
No, unless you decide to do it through the options available in "Your Account". On forMusicians we keep all the ads and let the users decide for themselves. Therefore, it´s advisable to consult from time to time "Your Ads" to not receive unsolicited messages from other users.
No. forMusicians makes this information available to all Internet users, especially reports about the Musician´s Profile, under a "Creative Commons" license.
This is a report from data provided by the musicians of the website, analyzed jointly, from a given sample. This work aims to provide quantitative data about the aspects that characterize the musician.
No. With the e-mail and password with which you registered on forMusicians, you can access the Forum of our website and post those topics that you think interesting.
Go to "Your Account", in section "Email Preferences" and make sure you have enabled the option "Subscription". In this way, you´ll know the latest news related to our website.
You can add to your music profile up to 5 audios and 5 videos, through "Your Account", in section "Multimedia Content". For example, videos of your live performances or of your own videoclips hosted on YouTube.com or other similar websites. Also, songs that you have hosted on an external server to forMusicians.net
The tags are keywords or labels that provide intelligent attributes of a particular digital document to classify it according to their description. It´s advisable to include many tags in your audios and videos. The important thing is to describe the content of Multimedia Content and allow other users to locate information without any kind of difficulty; for this reason, against more clear and descriptive can be the tag, the better.
When you register, the website assigns you a position based on your geographic location. To change your position you must go to "Your Account", in section "My Location" and follow the indications offered. It´s advisable not to pinpoint your location.