Are you all so sick of getting exploited? Let me share with you the one and only
essential lesson you must learn to stop the injustice and finally get paid for
your music. Coming up!
It 's a recurring annoyance: You or your band get contacted
to perform or play somewhere and they start off with: "You will get great
exposure" "You will get the chance to sell your music and your merchandise at the event"
But then it comes: there's no budget to pay the musicians blah blah blah
And mind you, I'm not talking about charity events here
Well you can't blame them really. Concert organizers and venue owners know
there's a whole line of musicians who are willing to do just about anything for some exposure
and who still think that by performing for free they will get noticed and ultimately
famous. Stick around to find out why that just won't happen
Same thing when you get contacted by online marketeers, managers, record label owners
and other music industry bobo's. They keep exploiting musicians
They keep telling us why we need their services. For a hefty fee or a large piece of the pie
So you can focus on just making music. It's your passion right?
You do what you do best and they do what they do best. And you don't need a large cut
because you are not making music for the money, right?
And we keep falling for those sales pitches and we believe all their BS
So in the end you can't really blame them. But this can stop!
There's basically one solution. One thing we can do about it.
And that is to say no.
Just say no. It's really that simple!
If every one of us just said no to playing for free. Or no to a bad record deal
They would have no choice to pay us our fair share, right?
Saying no can be hard though, I know.
I'm still learning to say no. But stick around.
I got five quick tips that will make saying no a lot easier. Here they come
Number one: when it comes to making a deal education and knowledge are key
Learn what a record label does, what managers do, what event organizers do
It's not rocket surgery
And it's all part of being a modern-day musician anyway
Look up how much they're usually paid and THEN ask yourself the question:
IF you don't want to do this work yourself, which by the way
you are totally capable of. What is it worth to you?
You want to sign a publishing deal and sign away half of your rights?
You want to hire a marketeer to promote your music?
Fine! Just know what you're signing. It will make it a lot easier to say no
and to negotiate a fair deal
Number two: realize that concerts where the acts
play for free usually suck. They're badly organized, have uninterested crowds
You get no exposure and the sound is usually crap
making the little exposure you do get, something to be avoided
Three: let go of the myth of the starving artist
It's a stubborn misconception.
You do NOT need to be poor to make great art or to be creative
History has shown that creativity comes to all socio-economic layers
Charging money for music is okay. It is just a means
a means to make more music.
We don't make music to make money, but we make money to make music
Number four: realize that if you're doing a lot of free gigs
It can come back to haunt you. You'll be known as a musician who
doesn't charge much, so isn't worth much either
They just won't take you seriously and it makes it a lot harder to suddenly
start asking to get paid.
An organizer of any decent event, where there's actually budget to pay the musicians,
will reason like this:
Oh these guys ask a thousand bucks each to perform? They must be great!
and these guys here are okay with getting paid in peanuts?
Well they must be...
Yes, it's that simple.
and number five: realize how much work you have put in to be able to play music
Let's not even take into account the countless rehearsals and practice sessions
Those are basically your education and are considered dues
you have to pay to achieve a certain skill
Also not taking into account: writing, composing, arranging and recording your songs
Let's just look at a typical timetable of a concert day:
Get your gear ready. Load up the van. Drive to the gig
Arrive and wait till it's your time to set up. Set up all the gear and soundcheck
Find something to eat and some more waiting
Great! Get on stage and actually play some music. Get all the gear off the stage and
load up the van. Drive home. Remove the gear from the van and put it into storage
Finally get to bed. So two hours of actually playing music out of those 14.
Here's a way to make a deal: I'll actually play the music for free!
Just pay me for the other 12 hours, deal?
Get it in your mind you're not asking for a handout here.
Just payment for services rendered. They wouldn't dare to ask
the caterers, the electricians, the sound engineers, the security or the bartenders
to work for free at that same concert, now would they?
although I'd like to see them try
And finally as a bonus motivation to say no: if you can't say no for yourself
because you're, I don't know, insecure, whatever
Just do it for your fellow musicians
Because only if we all stick together things can change
Now, next time someone asks you to play for free, won't you be a little insulted?
Good! You should be. It makes it easier to say no.
You might even feel the urge to yell: Just pay me!
But don't do that. Instead just take a fes breaths
and turn them down in a polite way
And maybe as a bonus send them a link to this video
Everyone needs to learn.
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I really want to hear your thoughts on this! Until next time
Just say no
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