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Create your band and get the players in

Signing up, what you get on day one, and how invites work.

Setting a band up takes one evening, and most of that is typing in names.

Create the band

Sign up with an email address and a password, then choose Create your band. You are the first admin.

The band arrives with the 18 brass sections already in place — soprano through to percussion — and a General chat channel. There is nothing to configure before you can use it.

Invite the players

Go to Roster and invite someone. You get a link to copy, and you send it however you already talk to your band: WhatsApp, email, read out at the end of a rehearsal.

They open the link, set their own password, and fill in their own instrument and section. That matters more than it sounds — you are not typing thirty instruments in yourself, and the details stay right because the person who knows them entered them.

Until someone accepts, they sit on the roster as invited. Once they accept, they turn active.

There is no spreadsheet import

There genuinely isn't one, and we would rather say so than have you go looking. Typing in a roster is a one-off evening. Everything after it — who is available, who is covering the front row, who has actually read the message — is the part a spreadsheet was never going to do for you.

Put one rehearsal in, invite the players, and see whether the replies come back faster than they do now.

What to do next

  • Set your sections and what a full band looks like
  • Ask who is coming, and read the section balance

Last updated 2026-08-31

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