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Making a living as a musician

News: 11th March 2011 by Louise Dodgson under Music Training & Careers, Record Labels

If you are sick of the mind-numbingly dull day jobs you do in order to maintain a music career in your spare time, then perhaps it's time for a rethink. Ultimately, selling your music in digital stores and income from playing gigs will be invested back into your band. Although you can keep chasing record deals and publishing contracts in hope of big bucks, it can be a fruitless battle. There are plenty of ways you can make music your day job and earn some well-deserved cash which has to be a far better option, right? Check out the first hand experiences of Jason Parker, a working musician who shares how it works for him.

Further below, is another article detailing a new UK label which is set up to work alongside working musicians. Take a look!

Related Links

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/03/what-it-really-means-to-be-a-working-musician.html

http://oneworkingmusician.com/

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/03/a-record-label-opens-for-working-musicians.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_campaign=0&utm_content=395530


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music revenue, musicians, unsigned bands, unsigned artists, income from music, working musicians

 

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