Getting started in busking and street performing means releasing all pre-conceived ideas you've had about the sport and taking off with a spirit and dedication to reach your goal. You will be cursed, admired, scowled and adored. Others may become jealous, envious, or even enraged. But if this your calling, it's time to get your feet wet up to your ears. Experience is the best teacher and, as any professional busker can tell you, the more experience you learn, the more success you'll have.

If you're stuck in Timbuktu, you'll just have to find a way out by hook-or-crook to be where the action is. Right now around the world, busking and street performing is enjoying a resurgence like never before. Unless you live in a major city of the world, you may have to cross a continent or two. Depending on location, competition can be from none to fierce. There's a whole range of conditions and pitches (places) to busk worldwide. From Istanbul to Hawaii, buskers and street performers are displaying their artistic crafts this very instant.

Come fly with me
Let's float down to Peru
In llama land
There's a one man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me
Let's take off in the blue

Your resolve should be to find the ultimate pitch on the planet where your performance is the most rewarded. This means being the very best street performer you can...the elite...the planet's finest at any given moment. At first glance, it is seemingly impossible. Yet, although extremely difficult, it is never-the-less very possible. Few ever attain this lofty goal but the ones that persist also have the satisfaction of having achieved the highest monetary result possible. They remember this "perfect" pitch forever...

Imagine hopping a jet and flying away to far away lands where you don't even speak the native language. Imagine people handing you huge colorful notes and strange coins. Imagine yourself a successful street performer entering international contests and possibly winning. Imagine performing tv and radio spots for buskerfests and international competitions. Imagine having the sexiest mate alive. Imagine the finest restaurants and villas with a royal view. Imagine there's a place in the clouds just for you and your show. Imagine and visualize this mental state of being. Imagine all the others that achieved this enlightenment on planet Busker.