December 17, 2018 It’s very easy to become a massively successful professional musician, guitar instructor or guitar player when you follow these three steps:
Advice, Career, Education tagged career advice, guitar, learning, music career October 16, 2018 Gaining tons of people to hear your music takes more than just uploading it to common music websites. Here is what you should do in addition to this:
The first thing to do is know that there is much more to getting new music fans that just putting your songs on a website online and waiting for people to check them out. This is one of the most frequent methods musicians use, and it isn’t very effective.
December 1, 2017 You are likely to struggle in your music career when you don’t follow a proven formula for success. Musicians who reach their goals faster than everyone else follow one formula in particular.
The formula successful musicians follow to achieve the highest levels of success is this:
November 15, 2017 3 Reasons Why Your Music Career Fails Even When You Have A Lot Of Musical Talent
By Tom Hess
You must build your music career in many areas besides musical talent if you want to succeed. Here are the main reasons why musical talent isn’t enough:
1. You Don’t Know How The Music Industry Really Works
People call the music business a business for a reason. You become successful in your music career when you learn how to make yourself valuable as a potential business partner for others in this industry. This involves learning how to earn a great living from music alone so you don’t need to work full time at a non-music day job just to get by.
2. You Don’t Have A Way To Leave Your Day Job And Earn Money From Music
One of the most common music career traps you need to avoid is getting stuck working 40 hours per week at your day job while your music career slowly fades over time. To avoid the frustration and regret that comes with this, you need to learn how to create multiple sources of music-related income.
You don’t have to rely on a single paycheck to pay your bills when you earn money from many sources at once. When you understand how to make money from many sources in a passive manner, you gain both time AND money. This way you have more time to pursue musical projects and grow your music career.
3. You Take Advice From People Who Are Not Professional Musicians
You’ve no doubt received tons of music career advice from people who never made it in this business. Although these people mean well, it’s a very bad idea to follow the advice they give you. For instance, a lot of people say that working in the music business is a very unstable way to make a living. They tell you that you must go to college to get a degree as a backup plan. Following this advice only leads to you spending less time with music and more time in some other field (with added student loan debt).
Want to reach your music career goals faster? Read the concepts of this music industry article to learn how to stay away from the most common pitfalls that prevent musicians from succeeding.
About The Author:
Tom Hess is an online guitar teacher, recording artist and music career coach. As a music career coach, he helps musicians from many countries break into the music industry. On his music instruction website you can find out how to become a pro musician and learn how the music industry works.
3 Reasons Why Your Music Career Fails Even When You Have A Lot Of Musical Talent
Advice, Career tagged Advice, Career, Industry, Music, music business, professional, professional musician July 31, 2017 Want to grow a successful career in music much more quickly? Don’t accept these false claims about the music business:
Advice, Music Industry tagged Career, DIY, music education, music industry, myths July 10, 2017 It’s common for most musicians to not get signed to record deals because they make false assumptions about how this industry works. Don’t make the mistakes they make. Inform yourself and build value in your music career so you can offer it to record companies in the future.
Below are three critical mistakes tons of musicians commit when trying to get recording contracts (and what you need to do instead):
Advice, Labels, Record Labels, Recording tagged Advice, DIY, indie labels, labels, major lables, mmusical experience, record deal April 20, 2017 There are many musicians trying to make it who do the right things, but at the wrong time and in the incorrect order. They often do things in their career based off of misinformation, fear or the advice of people who have never succeeded in music.
January 10, 2017 By Tom Hess
Do you believe that when you finally make money with music you’ll be all set? Wrong! Making some money through music is nice, but you won’t be able to really fulfill your potential until you make a lot of money in this business.
Advice tagged Career, make money in music, making money July 21, 2016 Take this very short music industry pop quiz:
True/false: To get the same opportunities you want in the music biz you must make it past massive levels of competition.
True/false: To make it in music, you need to overcome endless competition.
Both of these statements are completely false!
The music business really isn’t filled with tons of competition. Music companies are in dire need of new musicians to offer great contracts to, but have a hard time finding such musicians. You read that right.
Advice, Career tagged overcome music career competition April 22, 2016 What one thing is the key factor for your success in the music industry?
Answer: Your type of mindset. Regardless of what you do, every choice you make and action you have performed up until now has been determined by the type of mindset you’ve built for yourself.
The most popular and successful professional musicians were not born with amazing skills or more potential than everyone else. They have a separate kind of mindset that causes them to take different actions and get better results.
February 4, 2016 FACT: Musicians generally look for the answers to all the wrong questions. What questions am I talking about? The ones that all amateurs or people who have never been in music ask. These questions are based on ignorance, guesswork, fears and self-destructive thoughts centered around how some people think the music industry works. By seeking the answers to these questions, you can only reduce the likeliness that you will ever have a chance at growing a successful music career.
Advice tagged a career in music, building fans, career advice, success January 20, 2016 Out of all the musicians who try to make it in the music industry, very few ever will. This is because the majority of them spend their time doing things that won’t actually accomplish significant success in the music business. As a result, most musicians will become very frustrated and quit pursuing their musical dreams.
Here are six reasons why you have not become a professional musician yet, and what you should do to immediately move your career forward
Career tagged Live Performance, music career, professional September 12, 2012 If you hold the belief that it is ‘wrong’ to try to make money with your musical talents, do not read any further…simply close this page now.
For those of you who have decided to continue reading….welcome. Fact is, the majority of musicians want to have a career in music. However, these musicians also doubt their abilities to make good money in music, and fear that they will not be able to support themselves. Unfortunately, these people end up pursuing non-music jobs where they work full time and despise every time they go to clock in. This is all done out of the idea that a ‘normal job’ is safe and secure, while a music related career is highly risky with little security. This is one of the very most common misconceptions that I see ALL THE TIME while training musicians to succeed in their careers!
