Understanding the Landscape of Local Music Venues In order to get regular paid gigs, it’s helpful to understand the venue landscape. Here I’m going to talk about the venue landscape in my area, and then spend a little time on the bigger landscape for those of you who travel for [...]
Use Reputation, Musicianship & Personal Brand to Get Gigs The quality of your musicianship, or your craft as a musician, combined with your personal brand make up your reputation. Obviously a good reputation can help musicians get paying gigs, but building a good reputation breaks down to a few best [...]
But I Just Wanna Play! Deep down, you may feel that the only thing that really matters to you is playing. All the things that come along with it just aren’t important. You wouldn’t be alone. I’d just assume practice my instrument, work on my vocal skills, and perform. Okay, [...]
Creating Demand for Your Musicianship Be Seen and Heard Getting yourself to a place of being in relative to outright high demand is an exercise in exposure. By exposure I mean simply, getting yourself both seen and heard. Put another way, you must create demand for your musicianship. There are [...]
I’ve been working regularly with four different bands over the past three years, and doing so has helped me get paid gigs. Here’s how and why you can make money as a musician playing in multiple bands. Control of Your Schedule Playing for more than one band has helped me [...]
Building Relationships and Bands of Brothers Having a network of quality relationships will without a doubt help you get paid musician gigs as a musician. Whether yours is a band of bros or a band of brothers and sisters, there are benefits to letting your band be your extended family. [...]
