Making a Living in Your Local Music Market: Realizing Your Marketing Potential

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 270 pages
• Published by: Hal Leonard
• Edition: 3rd Edition April 1, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0634099248
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0634099243
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 15.2 ounces

Book Description
You can survive happily as a musician in your local music market. This book shows you how to expand and develop your skills as a musician and a composer right in your own backyard. Making a Living in Your Local Music Market explores topics relevant to musicians of every level: Why should a band have an agreement? How can you determine whether a personal manager is right for you? Are contests worth entering? What trade papers are the most useful? Why copyright your songs? Also covers: - Developing and packaging your artistic skills in the marketplace - Dealing with contractors, unions, club owners, agents, etc. - Producing your own recordings - Planning your future in music - Music and the Internet - Artist-operated record companies - The advantages and disadvantages of independent and major record labels - Grant opportunities for musicians and how to access them - College music business programs - Seminars and trade shows - Detailed coverage of regional music markets, including Austin, Atlanta, Denver, Miami, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Making a Living in Your Local Music Market (Paperback) Although I never met the author, I attended Bill Fowler's modern guitar class with him in Denver in 1975. I would think that anyone reading this book would find at least one good idea for increasing their musical income. I have been a professional musician based out of Denver since 1975, and have toured the U.S.A. several times promoting the CDs for my band, Hillbilly Hellcats. My only disagreement with the book is the Alan Remington pricing formula, found on page 50, in which Alan states that the average patron will stay two hours and drink four drinks. That was true in the pre-MADD days. In Colorado people go to jail for driving after two drinks, .05 BAC being the legal limit. Because of this, the average patron is now drinking only 1-2 drinks in two hours, and the resulting lack of sales means that many clubs have closed, and those open are struggling. No club is about to give any band an admission fee and a percentage of the bar, as Alan suggests that a band ask for. Books by Tim Sweeney and Peter Spellman both mention the effects of the anti-drunk driving campaign on clubs, and I was surprised that such a significant economic development was not covered in this book. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)