How To Make It In The New Music Business

This volume leads both novice and professional musicians into today's digital world, helping them to take complete control over all aspects of their music, from writing and performing to recording and selling. Motivating readers to live their dreams, author Robert Wolff shows how anyone can: set up and run their own music business and become a highly successful businessman or businesswoman · record major label quality music in their home, aided by tips from music professionals · broadcast music over their own web site and radio station to a potential audience of over 500 million people via the world wide web · do all this without a major record label's support. The book alsoincludes interviews with some major names in the music business, including Grammy-winning guitarist and composer Steve Lukather, Grammy-winning songwriter Diane Warren, guitar/sound system designer Bob Bradshaw, legendary engineer/producer/record mixer Bob Clearmountain, and sound mixer/masterer Bob Ludwig. This is a how-to guide for anyone, offering step-by-step advice to make it in the music business in your own way, on your own terms.

In the last decade, no industry has been through as much upheaval and turmoil as the music industry. It is a democratic, DIY business and any guide to success in these new waters must be told by someone who has survived them. Ari Herstand's How to Make It in the New Music Business is not only a brilliantly compiled tutorial on how to accomplish specific tasks-routing a tour, negotiating contracts, getting paid for streamed plays or licensing music-but also a manifesto, encouraging musicians to pave their own path.