How To Get Your First Gig In Half The Time Using These 3 Steps

Getting yourself out there is something that happens over time.

You don’t wake up as a musician, brush your teeth and go play a show. There are usually a few more steps involved before that, like finding other musicians to play with, or even just knowing how to be prepared for your first gig before you even get it.

Today we’ll be talking about how to go about landing your first gig, and in the $1,000 Musician fashion we’ll be doing it as efficiently as possible.

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E-mailing your way into the recording studio

Working in a recording studio is a dream of many music enthusiasts. Those big facilites with all the gear you salivate just thinking about, let alone having the opportunity to touch and handle. It’s just all so exciting.

So how do you get a job in one of those facilities if you don’t know anybody in the field? Nothing is going to happen if you sit idly by. Just like big labels don’t come knocking on your door with a contract, neither is a recording studio going to come to your house with a job offer. I recently moved to a new city where I didn’t know anybody except my girlfriend. How did I start assisting in the biggest recording studio in town if I didn’t know anybody there?

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