The irony of today is that the music industry is dead, but an individual has a better chance of making money as they break into the business today more than ever.
1. Write Music and Write Lyrics
2. Perform them in front of people every week
3. collect emails, maintain a social network site, promote all recordings, gigs, and news
4. Reduce your cost of living
5. Commit
6. Video performances - as many as possible and get them on YouTube
7. Decide who your audience is write for them
8. Learn the recording and production technology - it is simpler than ever and because everyone listens on ipods, sonic quality just doesn't matter that much any more.
9. You audition producers - they don't audition you
10. Put a media kit together check out sonicbids.
11. learn 2 cover songs for every original song you write
12. Start a publishing company. it is basically free.
13. Register your works with Library of Congress
14. Join BMI
15. Don't live in New York or LA
16. Commit to 40 gigs in cities other than where you live in the first year
17. Sell CDs at every Gig.
18. Focus on your vocal hooks. Get to the hook within first 30 seconds of your songs
19. If you're doing a band, if your drummer speeds up or slows down, fire them immediately.
20. If you're doing a band, every needs good, dependable, well maintained equipment
21. Don't do drugs - at all
22. Don't drink to intoxication
23. Exercise everyday
24 Pray and Meditate
25. Focus on the spirituality of what you have to give to your audience - what's your message?
26. Don't hire a manager. Set up a Limited Liability Corporation and contract specific helpers to achieve results - do NOT give up rights to your intellectual property. There's no need.
hope this helps
sHE BECAME A MUSICAN BECAUSE AS A CHLID SHE REALLY LOVED MUSIC SO SHE WENT ON WITH HER CAREER!!!! :-)
Musician
his parents pobably
An American musican, leader of the rock 'n' roll underground. R.I.P. 1956-1993
Jamo was a great friend in 1966-1967, I would like to contact him.
sHE BECAME A MUSICAN BECAUSE AS A CHLID SHE REALLY LOVED MUSIC SO SHE WENT ON WITH HER CAREER!!!! :-)
Think about Beethoven. He was deaf. He became a musican, he felt the different vibrations through the notes that he played.
elvis presley
Which 1?
He was a Jazz Musican
Gordon
Musician
w.c.Handy
Itzhak Perlman.
his parents pobably
That would be Mel Tillis.
Musician in Spanish is 'músico'.