Tips from Doxter S

Useful and Meaningful Advice

My favorite line sung by Old Blue Eyes goes: “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere“.  Tips like that are memorable but hard to come by. Doxter S will be continuing to offer useful opinions and meaningful advice here on a regular basis.

Anyone starting to make a go at being a music creator needs a regular source of income. Mozart always had patrons, freeing him to be as creative as he wanted or needed to be. Contemporary musicians usually do gigs that pay insufficiently and infrequently. The Tip Jar is an omnipresent site at the piano bar. Selling Merchandise is often more lucrative than the gig itself, but many venues require a cut of this as well.

Doxter S has learned from some very talented and industrious music creators that you can’t live off the income from making music alone. The saying “Don’t give up your day job” is offered frequently to those who are not already shooting stars in the industry. So what should the budding be doing differently?

My first bit of advice is to claim ownership of all your creations before someone else steals it from you. Anything original you produce belongs to you and can be used to bargain with those who have access to money. Content is King in the Internet Age, so the more you “own” the better off you will be financially.

Be nice to promoters and booking agents, but be smarter than they are. Be wise but not arrogant, Nobody makes money without something to sell, and that something is n this industry is Great Music.  your time working on your original music is your investment in yourself, your “sweat equity” sas they say in business.

And be generous with others like you when you can afford to be.