Create your own band.

Your task:
• Work in a pair.
• You must invent a brand new band.
• Your band will be fictional (not real people).
• You will work on paper to produce materials that
explain your band.

• More detail on the next slides 

 What’s your line up?
The basic line up for a pop/rock band is usually...
Lead singer

Guitarist

Bass player

Drummer
 What’s your line up?
But some bands have even more...
Backing singers Keyboard player Rhythm guitarist

Trumpet & Saxophone Percussionist

 What’s the name of your new band?
• One or two word names often work best (like Queen or
Little Mix).
• It needs to be memorable.
• It might reflect the genre of music your band is
playing and fit in with their overall image.

• You should also make up names for each fictional

person in the band (e.g. “the lead singer is called
Suzie, etc)
 What songs will they play?
• Your band’s manager has decided that all the
songs on the band’s first album should be cover
versions.
• A cover version is when a singer or band does a version of
somebody else’s song.
• You must have 12 songs on your album.

• Try to include some new songs and some older

ones, if you know any.
 Image and album cover:
• You need to decide what your band’s image will be.
• What type of clothes will they wear on stage?
• Also design their album art – think about album art
that you have seen (examples below).
 Over to you...
• On paper, you should produce all the things
we’ve talked about.
• Use colours if possible.
• Work quickly to get it finished by the end.

Summary of tasks:
Decide on the Name of band Name the 12 Design their
line up of your and names of cover songs on image and their
band band members their debut album cover
album