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. [...]

In this post I’ll breakdown how relationships and working with multiple bands factor into how I book gigs a year in advance. This approach can help anyone make money as a musician by booking gigs a year in advance. This is yet another chapter exert from the forthcoming eBook, A [...]

Getting Paid as a Gigging Musician Getting paid as a gigging musician, and getting paid what your worth is an exercise in asking for a fee and knowing your market. Relationships are key here (more on this later). A great way to survey your market is to know what other [...]

Introduction A Musician’s Guide to Paid Gigs is the working title of my forthcoming eBook, and here’s the introduction. I’ve been playing drums since I was 13 years old, which was a long time ago. I used to say, I’ve been playing off and on, since I was 13 years [...]