How to be a Working Musician: A Practical Guide to Earning Money in the Music Business - Softcover

Levine, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823083292 ISBN 13: 9780823083299

Publisher: Billboard Books,U.S., 1997

Synopsis

Provides career advice for novices and professionals, offering tips on networking, playing the club circuit, working weddings and parties, writing advertising jingles, and getting jobs as a studio musician

About this title

From the Author:

A detailed guidebook for getting work in the music business.
This book is aimed both at those considering a career as a musician, and those
already in music who are looking to jump-start their career or change direction. It
contains practical advice for getting work as a musician in a wide variety of areas
of the business including nightclubs, private parties, Broadway and musical theater
and classical music. In addition, this book also covers getting studio work, as well
as jingle writing and other commercial composing.

The composing section contains an extensive how-to section on the nuts and bolts of
scoring to picture. This can serve as a valuable reference to anyone wishing to get
started in that end of the business.

The book is based both on my own experience as a live player, studio musician and
commercial composer, and on the expertise of over fifty industry professionals who
were interviewed during the writing process. "How to Be a Working Musician"
contains profiles of a number of these people, as well as Q&A sections and plenty
of quotes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Billboard Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0823083292
• ISBN 13: 9780823083299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224