How to make money with music
Music, money and fame. That's the goal of almost every musician. Most musicians have the 'music' part naturally. However, at some time in the life of every musician they start looking for how to make money with music. Some will consider a 'formal' career in the music industry while others will take it any way they can get it. Once you find something you enjoy doing you inevitably want to make money with it. It's less like a job and more like play. Music and money go together better than most musicians know.
Musicians seem to be a special breed though. They'll do anything to stay away from the business world. The young musician believes they'll join a band, write some songs and get a free recording contract. After a brief whirlwind tour they will return to Los Angeles and their beach house in Malibu where they spend their days partying with Super Models. In our music, money and fame scenario, this dream seems to forget about the money.
Why the stigma? That's the lifestyle thrown at us from music videos. Any independent musician who is enthusiastic about their craft is always researching their contemporaries (other popular artists). They know what is happening in the popular music scene. You have to if you want to make money with music. Unfortunately this is all that the independent musician is exposed to. Their view of the music world lies in the "bling bling" that coats the business side of music like a plastic wrapper coats candy. If you were studying classical music you would have a whole different outlook on your music career.
The Forgotten Indie Artist
The sad part is that there are great independent musicians out there that lose their desire to play at all after failing to get a recording contract. Not only that, the majority of real money to be made by a musician lies outside the recording contract realm. Who makes the money in the recording business? First, the record company. Of course the recording studio, their staff of recording engineers and assistants, the professional studio musicians hired to fill in on tracks, the producer, the songwriter, the publisher, the mastering house and their staff, the graphic artist that made the CD cover, the printer that printed it, the plant that pressed the CDs, the distributor of the product and the retailer who sells it to the consumer. Oh ya, maybe the artist gets a little something.
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