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Tips for Surviving as a Musician in New York City

For most artists, living in New York is the only place where they can have a legitimate shot at making a living doing what they love. Unfortunately, a good deal of those people leave empty handed and the ones who stay either struggle to get by or find some other field to make a living. There ...

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6 Steps for Successful Audio Mastering

Mixing is an art form that takes a lot of time and skill and even though we may spend a long time on any given mix it is a good plan to be able to have a strategy for commencing a mix down session. To some degree this is going to be influenced by the genre ...

News: Career

Contract Negotiation for Musicians

Unfortunately there are a lot of important aspects of the music business that are never dealt with in college. After receiving two degrees in music, I can’t think of one instance where the topic of contract negotiation was discussed. This is unfortunate for the student because he or she will more than likely be taken advantage ...

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How to Help Protect Your Health as a Musician

Hard working musicians subject themselves to irregluar working hours, late working hours and often find themselves in areas of slightly different risk compared with many other professions. This article is definitely not meant to replace seeking medical and postural advice if you have a problem that needs addressing. However it does offer some basic and sensible ...

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Interview with Freelance Musician Tony Maceli

At Musician Wages, we’ve always believed there are as many ways to be a freelance musician as there are freelance musicians. Every musician we’ve talked to has their own combination of jobs that, combined, make up their career. We’d like to share the experiences and advice of more working musicians on our site through a series ...

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News: Opinion

Musicians and the Public Image

Musicians and the Public Image

By Chuck Anderson Is it just me or have you ever noticed that musicians are consistently portrayed by the advertising media as losers, homeless, broke, druggies, alcoholics or just plain simpletons? From my perspective, I am not only offended by this but enraged enough to try to raise consciousness about this entire subject. Are some musicians ...

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Networking in a New Scene

There’s this elegant, seductive, and sometimes profane dance we all have to do. It goes by the name of ‘Networking’. Some are masters at it. Your present company is not. It was a startling jolt to my system when I discovered that much of what I am trying to do is based not on my proficiency ...

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How to Find Work as a Gigging Musician

There's a scene in the movie Inception where Cobb asks Ariadne how they came to be sitting outside a cafe in Paris. When she couldn't recall, Cobb pointed out that we can't remember how our dreams start; therefore she knows she's dreaming if she can't remember how she arrived someplace. Sometimes I try to remember how ...

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The Skinny on Promotional Packages and Booking Agents

OK, you're ready to get out there and perform. You have the skills, you have a promotional kit and you can visualize yourself working five nights a week and making pretty good bread. Your plan is to network with other musicians at jam night and find out who's gigging where and how much they're getting paid. ...

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News: Technology

7 Easy Steps to Teaching Music Lessons Online

When I was asked to write this article, it gave me the final impetus I needed to grow my teaching business. In recent months, several of my students have moved interstate and some requested that I teach them online. I was hesitant because, as a singing and piano teacher, I wasn't really sure how I was ...


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