THE MUSIC GAME
David Crosby once said something along this line … We don’t get paid for getting up on stage and playing music, we get paid for all of the crap you need to battle through to get here.
The list of things you need to do nowadays and at the virtually unknown level is extensive and sometime exhausting … except for playing music.
- learning new songs
- finishing unfinished songs
- writing new songs
- studying theory and music structure
- submitting for gigs, radio spots, festivals, LPR’s etc etc etc
- keeping website and social media up to date
- writing press releases, designing posters and getting them out
- instrument and equipment maintenance
- organizing managing and rehearsing for gigs
- recording even if it is just to keep a record of what you have done
And that is just what I could think of off the top of my head … I’m sure there is more. There is no handbook or instruction manual for all of this so it’s trial and error for the most part.
So if you ask a muso what are doing in music these days … the short answer is I’m playing at such and such this weekend … the long answer is EVERYTHING, to get here.
