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HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS A MUSICIAN - A person who has musical skills may have the desire to become a professional musician. This book will give you an insight into how you can achieve those goals and subsequently earn a comfortable living.
HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS A MUSICIAN - A person who has musical skills may have the desire to become a professional musician. This book will give you an insight into how you can achieve those goals and subsequently earn a comfortable living.
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HOW TO MAKE A LIVING
AS A MUSICIAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 3
GETTING STARTED 4
FREELANCING 5
MAKING A LIVING 7
DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS 8
OTHER SOURCES OF INCOME 11
MAKING A PROMO KIT 13
PICTURES 14
SONG LISTS 14
BUSINESS CARDS 14
VIDEOS 15
STATIONERY 15
FINDING WORK 15
PLANNING 17
SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE 18
CREATING THE GIG 21
CONCLUSION 21
HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS A MUSICIAN
INTRODUCTION
A person who has the musical skills necessary to play one or more instruments may have the desire to become a professional musician or work in a related field. The intent of this manual is to give you an insight into how you can achieve those goals and subsequently earn a comfortable living. One of the most important factors to consider when entering into any new field is to determine if there is a need for the service that you are providing. Whatever you attempt has to be marketable in order to make a profit. You perform by providing entertainment, and in exchange receive money for your services. If you can do this on a regular basis, you can become successful. If you are unable for one reason or another, you will not.
Your market will include, but not be limited to a person, group of people, or organization that requires a specific service, for example music. Marketing that product means simply preparing your product (music) and making it available to the consumer. A rock and roll club needs rock bands, Branson, Mo., needs country and easy listening, and Las Vegas needs production numbers with style.
The person going to a concert wants to be entertained, the bar owner wants a high gate as his cover charge helps to pay you, and the bride wants her wedding to be a hit and also memorable.
If you can follow these simple principles when you are out trying to book appearances for your musical enterprises, you will find work. The degree with which you accomplish these goals will determine whether you can make a lot of money or not. Just make sure that you are willing to do what it takes to be a success. Regardless of your personal style, competition, musical ability, tenacity, or your overall business sense, you can make it - or not. The only way to fail is to quit or never try at all.
GETTING STARTED
What do we do now?
You are looking to play music, have fun doing it, and maybe even make some money at the same time. There are a lot of different types of bookings available and we will explore the options. Information will be a key factor in helping you to make the choices between the options that present themselves.
Some of the elements that could affect a decision are:
Am I good enough to do this for a living?
Can I read music?
What should I charge for my performance?
Where do I find work?
Is singing important to making money?
Should I hook up with an established group?
Do I start my own?
How do I make a steady living?
How do I locate others to play with?
How do we fine tune our musical performances to benefit us financially?
After careful consideration of these questions, you should have a clear understanding of where you would like to go and how to begin to achieve it.
Most people like to listen to music that they already are familiar with and supplying them with their preferences is the key to making a living playing music. Stick with the stock tunes for now, as they may be familiar to your audience. Use them to warm up, expand your list of tunes, increase your versatility, and become familiar with the other musicians that you either work with or come in contact with.
If you decide to work in some original tunes later on there are a few things to remember. You can make a living as a musician playing stock tunes and work in some of your original materials into your performance, work during the day to support yourself so that you can try out your original works, or have someone support you until you make it working on your originals. In any case, do your best to have fun in whatever you do.
FREELANCING
In general, a freelance musician is one who is not working for any one particular place of employment and is usually not restricted to an individual job. Work when you want, where and as often as you wish. Generally, you’ll be responsible for your own taxes, like any other self-employed person. To freelance, you should have a higher skill level and that may be developed by playing with groups, school bands, and other musical ensembles. During this time, the talents necessary to make it in the business can be developed, songs can be learned, and getting used to working with others will give you a lift up along the ladder to success. This is the period of time necessary to learn the tunes that other successful groups are playing.
TO BE CONTINUED... Buy now and enjoy the contents in full!
HOW TO MAKE A LIVING
AS A MUSICIAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 3
GETTING STARTED 4
FREELANCING 5
MAKING A LIVING 7
DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS 8
OTHER SOURCES OF INCOME 11
MAKING A PROMO KIT 13
PICTURES 14
SONG LISTS 14
BUSINESS CARDS 14
VIDEOS 15
STATIONERY 15
FINDING WORK 15
PLANNING 17
SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE 18
CREATING THE GIG 21
CONCLUSION 21
HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS A MUSICIAN
INTRODUCTION
A person who has the musical skills necessary to play one or more instruments may have the desire to become a professional musician or work in a related field. The intent of this manual is to give you an insight into how you can achieve those goals and subsequently earn a comfortable living. One of the most important factors to consider when entering into any new field is to determine if there is a need for the service that you are providing. Whatever you attempt has to be marketable in order to make a profit. You perform by providing entertainment, and in exchange receive money for your services. If you can do this on a regular basis, you can become successful. If you are unable for one reason or another, you will not.
Your market will include, but not be limited to a person, group of people, or organization that requires a specific service, for example music. Marketing that product means simply preparing your product (music) and making it available to the consumer. A rock and roll club needs rock bands, Branson, Mo., needs country and easy listening, and Las Vegas needs production numbers with style.
The person going to a concert wants to be entertained, the bar owner wants a high gate as his cover charge helps to pay you, and the bride wants her wedding to be a hit and also memorable.
If you can follow these simple principles when you are out trying to book appearances for your musical enterprises, you will find work. The degree with which you accomplish these goals will determine whether you can make a lot of money or not. Just make sure that you are willing to do what it takes to be a success. Regardless of your personal style, competition, musical ability, tenacity, or your overall business sense, you can make it - or not. The only way to fail is to quit or never try at all.
GETTING STARTED
What do we do now?
You are looking to play music, have fun doing it, and maybe even make some money at the same time. There are a lot of different types of bookings available and we will explore the options. Information will be a key factor in helping you to make the choices between the options that present themselves.
Some of the elements that could affect a decision are:
Am I good enough to do this for a living?
Can I read music?
What should I charge for my performance?
Where do I find work?
Is singing important to making money?
Should I hook up with an established group?
Do I start my own?
How do I make a steady living?
How do I locate others to play with?
How do we fine tune our musical performances to benefit us financially?
After careful consideration of these questions, you should have a clear understanding of where you would like to go and how to begin to achieve it.
Most people like to listen to music that they already are familiar with and supplying them with their preferences is the key to making a living playing music. Stick with the stock tunes for now, as they may be familiar to your audience. Use them to warm up, expand your list of tunes, increase your versatility, and become familiar with the other musicians that you either work with or come in contact with.
If you decide to work in some original tunes later on there are a few things to remember. You can make a living as a musician playing stock tunes and work in some of your original materials into your performance, work during the day to support yourself so that you can try out your original works, or have someone support you until you make it working on your originals. In any case, do your best to have fun in whatever you do.
FREELANCING
In general, a freelance musician is one who is not working for any one particular place of employment and is usually not restricted to an individual job. Work when you want, where and as often as you wish. Generally, you’ll be responsible for your own taxes, like any other self-employed person. To freelance, you should have a higher skill level and that may be developed by playing with groups, school bands, and other musical ensembles. During this time, the talents necessary to make it in the business can be developed, songs can be learned, and getting used to working with others will give you a lift up along the ladder to success. This is the period of time necessary to learn the tunes that other successful groups are playing.
TO BE CONTINUED... Buy now and enjoy the contents in full!
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