Unit 347 - Planning For A Career In Music
Job Role:
Session Musician
Education:
You aren't required tohave any degrees or grades for a particular instrument or Music Performing, however you are more likely to get given work and be well thought of if you have a high grade in your instrument and have studied music at University.
Training:
Training is mostly about developing your skill set and being more competent in your instrument and always learning new things so that you can spread your wings and be able to accept and draw in new opportunities which you couldn't do before hand.
Experience:
This is to do with how many gigs or shows you have performed in, what styles and genres you have played in and what education you have had as a session musician.
Career Progression:
The speed of your career progression depends on how you promote yourself, the better you promote yourself and the more links you have in the music industry will alter how quickly and how you are viewed by employees.
Skills:
Being able to site read and play many different styles and genres of music will be the most important skills that are required for a session musician. However other important skills will be how approachable you are as a person and what your personality is like.
Opportunities:
Being a session musician means that whatever opportunities arise they are because of how much work you have put into your career. Also knowing what jobs to accept and decline will also make new opportunities available.
Sacrifices:
As a Session Musician you have to sacrifice a lot of your own time promoting yourself to therefor get enough work to live off, also you need tobe constantly practising your instrument and learning your parts for when you are needed.
Work Load:
The work load is entirely revolved around how much work you put in promoting yourself and how skilled you are at being adaptable to different styles of music. You don't get a salary but instead you make money per show or gig which you do. So the more work you do the more money you get.
Making A Living:
Making a living as a session musician all depends on how much work you accept or how skilled you're at your chosen instrument and how adaptable you are.
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Job Role:
Music Producer
Education:
Variable; courses in audio production or music theory or a degree such as the Bachelor of Music in Music Production and Engineering or Music Business
Training:
Most importantly you need to keep practising and improving your skills as a Music Producer, making sure your editing sounds better each time, evolving your skill set. There is no specific training as a Music Producer, but keeping regular practises will help.
Experience:
Like a Session Musician you don't need any University degrees or status to become a Music Producer, however they do help. Most Music colleges offer Music Production Programmes at the Bachelor's Degree Level.
Career Progression:
This all depends on how good you are as a Music Producer, you're artistic and technical abilities. Most Music Producers start off with minimal and sometimes unpaid work to build a reputation. From there you can choose whether you work behind a recording studio or as an executive. Being able to pick and choose your projects is your ultimate goal.
Skills:
There are many skills that you need as a Music Producer, these are; Being a leader, collaboration, budgeting, scheduling and time management, using technology in artistic and unique ways. All of these are very important in how you are viewed to people, if you are good at all these skills then you will be more appealing to artists and record companies.
Opportunities:
Depending on how appealing and what skills you have as a Music Producer will mean that you have different opportunities coming your way. In the same way as a session musician it all depends on how much effort and hard work you put into promoting yourself, the better you promote yourself the more opportunities will come, which will usually pay more, meaning that you can start to choose which jobs to accept as you will have people approaching you instead of the other way round.
Sacrifices:
Similar to a Session Musician, you have to sacrifice a large majority of your spare time promoting yourself in order to make sure that more jobs come your way instead of there being little work for you.
Work Load:
The work load is all depending on how much work you attract, which is all to do with reputation and promotion. The more you promote and the better your reputation means that more people approach you for work, however at the start you will need to be the one seeking work and asking smaller artists whether you can work for them.
Making A Living:
You need to make sure that you're getting enough regular work in order to live, then afterwards its the ambition for extra work and higher paid work which will boost your regular income. Like a Session Musician you don't get a guaranteed salary, so you need to make sure you're putting your name out into the music industry.
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Job Role:
Marketing Manager
Education:
There are no set regulations for specific degrees, but usually you have to have been in the marketing business for at least 3-5 years, however having a degree in Marketing or Business will help. The other option is to be a self employed marketing apprentice and work your way up from there.
Training:
You need to be able to be savvy in the music industry, knowing the industry like the back of your hand, be able to know when it is a good time to to make changes and promote your artists.
Experience:
Experience will bring bigger and better opportunities. When you start you will manage very small artists who are trying to be successful and tout there, sometimes these artists will flourish and you can stick with the same artist. However, on most occasions these artists won't break through, but with the experience you have got through managing the artists marketing, you can build and go onto bigger things, and this will be a cycle as you build more and more experience.
Career Progression:
Career progression is down to you, it's down to how much effort you put in, but also down to how well you pick out artists, picking artists which have that uniqueness and quality which others don't means that you have a good eye for talent, resulting in a very profitable marketing campaign.
Skills:
Leadership and motivation, creativity and attention to detail, strong IT and communication skills as you're the face of the artist in the business world and being ablate budget well is also another key skill.
Opportunities:
For every artist you manage successfully you will get more and more attention with more established companies wanting to use your services. The music industry, as we know, is based on hard work and self promotion, so being motivated and giving a good manifesto for yourself is onetime most impotent things. Also building up links in the music industry is also crucial when seeking new work/opportunities.
Sacrifices:
At the start of your career you will need to sacrifice a lot of time and be willing to take the risk of loosing money for smaller artists who may not make the cut and make your financial expectations.
Work Load:
A usual Market Manager will work 9-5 Monday-Friday as there is constantly jobs and tasks to do to promote your artist, whether that is tours, signing up with a record company or releasing new content, all of these aspects need to be promoted by the Marketing Manager.
Making A Living:
An unexperienced, new Marketing Manager will earn a salary between: £25,000 - £30,000 a year. However with experience you could earn up to £45,000, and if you're one of the best, most experienced and successful Marketing Manager you can earn up to roughly £55,000 if not more. So compared to a Session Musician and Music Producer, who have no set salary and work for themselves, a Marketing Manager is guaranteed a salary and there is a lot less risk.
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My 5 Year Plan
I am currently in my final year at college studying RSL Level 2 Course. I would like to get into Session work or be in a band. I will be releasing a EP with my band in the summer and then will be taking a gap year this September to work on getting gigs around he country, or going on a pub tour around England to gain a loyal fan base and to get ourselves out there, if we were to be successful I would then be touring with my band and hopefully playing at bigger venues in the years afterwards, however if it wasn't to happy or kick off then after the year out I will go to NEXUS ICA to study Popular Music and Worship BA(Hons) Course which will give me a full degree. Afterwards I will try and get into session work and become a drum teacher to earn extra money.
Suitable Jobs and Job Agencies:
A Session Musician is a suitable job as I would've studied many different genres of music and be able to site read well. I also wouldn't be tied into a job so I would have a lot of free time to promote myself as a session musician. These skills are crucial in becoming a good session musician who can get to into the music industry. Some job agencies that are available for Session Musicians are: Encore; who set up clients with potential job openings and each job has different pay and different roles and AAOmovement; this is a site where session musicians promote themselves for available work. People can book season musicians through AAOmovements.
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CV:
Session Musician
Education:
You aren't required tohave any degrees or grades for a particular instrument or Music Performing, however you are more likely to get given work and be well thought of if you have a high grade in your instrument and have studied music at University.
Training:
Training is mostly about developing your skill set and being more competent in your instrument and always learning new things so that you can spread your wings and be able to accept and draw in new opportunities which you couldn't do before hand.
Experience:
This is to do with how many gigs or shows you have performed in, what styles and genres you have played in and what education you have had as a session musician.
Career Progression:
The speed of your career progression depends on how you promote yourself, the better you promote yourself and the more links you have in the music industry will alter how quickly and how you are viewed by employees.
Skills:
Being able to site read and play many different styles and genres of music will be the most important skills that are required for a session musician. However other important skills will be how approachable you are as a person and what your personality is like.
Opportunities:
Being a session musician means that whatever opportunities arise they are because of how much work you have put into your career. Also knowing what jobs to accept and decline will also make new opportunities available.
Sacrifices:
As a Session Musician you have to sacrifice a lot of your own time promoting yourself to therefor get enough work to live off, also you need tobe constantly practising your instrument and learning your parts for when you are needed.
Work Load:
The work load is entirely revolved around how much work you put in promoting yourself and how skilled you are at being adaptable to different styles of music. You don't get a salary but instead you make money per show or gig which you do. So the more work you do the more money you get.
Making A Living:
Making a living as a session musician all depends on how much work you accept or how skilled you're at your chosen instrument and how adaptable you are.
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Job Role:
Music Producer
Education:
Variable; courses in audio production or music theory or a degree such as the Bachelor of Music in Music Production and Engineering or Music Business
Training:
Most importantly you need to keep practising and improving your skills as a Music Producer, making sure your editing sounds better each time, evolving your skill set. There is no specific training as a Music Producer, but keeping regular practises will help.
Experience:
Like a Session Musician you don't need any University degrees or status to become a Music Producer, however they do help. Most Music colleges offer Music Production Programmes at the Bachelor's Degree Level.
Career Progression:
This all depends on how good you are as a Music Producer, you're artistic and technical abilities. Most Music Producers start off with minimal and sometimes unpaid work to build a reputation. From there you can choose whether you work behind a recording studio or as an executive. Being able to pick and choose your projects is your ultimate goal.
Skills:
There are many skills that you need as a Music Producer, these are; Being a leader, collaboration, budgeting, scheduling and time management, using technology in artistic and unique ways. All of these are very important in how you are viewed to people, if you are good at all these skills then you will be more appealing to artists and record companies.
Opportunities:
Depending on how appealing and what skills you have as a Music Producer will mean that you have different opportunities coming your way. In the same way as a session musician it all depends on how much effort and hard work you put into promoting yourself, the better you promote yourself the more opportunities will come, which will usually pay more, meaning that you can start to choose which jobs to accept as you will have people approaching you instead of the other way round.
Sacrifices:
Similar to a Session Musician, you have to sacrifice a large majority of your spare time promoting yourself in order to make sure that more jobs come your way instead of there being little work for you.
Work Load:
The work load is all depending on how much work you attract, which is all to do with reputation and promotion. The more you promote and the better your reputation means that more people approach you for work, however at the start you will need to be the one seeking work and asking smaller artists whether you can work for them.
Making A Living:
You need to make sure that you're getting enough regular work in order to live, then afterwards its the ambition for extra work and higher paid work which will boost your regular income. Like a Session Musician you don't get a guaranteed salary, so you need to make sure you're putting your name out into the music industry.
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Job Role:
Marketing Manager
Education:
There are no set regulations for specific degrees, but usually you have to have been in the marketing business for at least 3-5 years, however having a degree in Marketing or Business will help. The other option is to be a self employed marketing apprentice and work your way up from there.
Training:
You need to be able to be savvy in the music industry, knowing the industry like the back of your hand, be able to know when it is a good time to to make changes and promote your artists.
Experience:
Experience will bring bigger and better opportunities. When you start you will manage very small artists who are trying to be successful and tout there, sometimes these artists will flourish and you can stick with the same artist. However, on most occasions these artists won't break through, but with the experience you have got through managing the artists marketing, you can build and go onto bigger things, and this will be a cycle as you build more and more experience.
Career Progression:
Career progression is down to you, it's down to how much effort you put in, but also down to how well you pick out artists, picking artists which have that uniqueness and quality which others don't means that you have a good eye for talent, resulting in a very profitable marketing campaign.
Skills:
Leadership and motivation, creativity and attention to detail, strong IT and communication skills as you're the face of the artist in the business world and being ablate budget well is also another key skill.
Opportunities:
For every artist you manage successfully you will get more and more attention with more established companies wanting to use your services. The music industry, as we know, is based on hard work and self promotion, so being motivated and giving a good manifesto for yourself is onetime most impotent things. Also building up links in the music industry is also crucial when seeking new work/opportunities.
Sacrifices:
At the start of your career you will need to sacrifice a lot of time and be willing to take the risk of loosing money for smaller artists who may not make the cut and make your financial expectations.
Work Load:
A usual Market Manager will work 9-5 Monday-Friday as there is constantly jobs and tasks to do to promote your artist, whether that is tours, signing up with a record company or releasing new content, all of these aspects need to be promoted by the Marketing Manager.
Making A Living:
An unexperienced, new Marketing Manager will earn a salary between: £25,000 - £30,000 a year. However with experience you could earn up to £45,000, and if you're one of the best, most experienced and successful Marketing Manager you can earn up to roughly £55,000 if not more. So compared to a Session Musician and Music Producer, who have no set salary and work for themselves, a Marketing Manager is guaranteed a salary and there is a lot less risk.
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My 5 Year Plan
I am currently in my final year at college studying RSL Level 2 Course. I would like to get into Session work or be in a band. I will be releasing a EP with my band in the summer and then will be taking a gap year this September to work on getting gigs around he country, or going on a pub tour around England to gain a loyal fan base and to get ourselves out there, if we were to be successful I would then be touring with my band and hopefully playing at bigger venues in the years afterwards, however if it wasn't to happy or kick off then after the year out I will go to NEXUS ICA to study Popular Music and Worship BA(Hons) Course which will give me a full degree. Afterwards I will try and get into session work and become a drum teacher to earn extra money.
Suitable Jobs and Job Agencies:
A Session Musician is a suitable job as I would've studied many different genres of music and be able to site read well. I also wouldn't be tied into a job so I would have a lot of free time to promote myself as a session musician. These skills are crucial in becoming a good session musician who can get to into the music industry. Some job agencies that are available for Session Musicians are: Encore; who set up clients with potential job openings and each job has different pay and different roles and AAOmovement; this is a site where session musicians promote themselves for available work. People can book season musicians through AAOmovements.
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CV:
Edward Soal
Date of Birth: 06.05.1999
Profile
I have received a conditional offer from NEXUS ICA College to study Popular Music and Worship BA(Hons) course.
Education and Qualifications
Grade 7 - Drums
BTEC Music Level Two - D*
BTEC Music Level Two - D*
Employment and Experience
I have been in four bands during my teenage years. I play at my local church and have been for five years. But when I was 13 I was in a rock band with my school friends. I am now in a couple of bands, one Indie Rock band and a Funk Rock band. Currently we are trying to get some recordings together and get our music onto online music streaming sites. We have been gigging around Worthing for a year.
Skills and Qualities
I have a keen interest in music and play the drums regularly at my church. I am also in three different bands and actively gig around Worthing and the local area. Recently I have been approached with the opportunity to play three different gigs at The Brighton Fringe Festival with a couple of my bands and I am also representing my college providing music for a show. Music is very important to me as I feel like I am expressing myself through the music I play. I practise regularly, always striving to improve and get better at what I do, I never settle I always want to improve, this shows my determination in a fierce market.
I am an outgoing and confident person and enjoy spending time with my friends and family. I also like to work my hardest at things and don’t like coming out of things knowing that I haven’t put my all into it.
Grade 7 drums
Live performance, Composition/Song Writing, Studio and Theatre Performance.
Grade 7 drums
Live performance, Composition/Song Writing, Studio and Theatre Performance.
Positions of Responsibility
I have been in four bands in the past and have been the face of the band, getting gigs wherever possible, talking to local pubs and bars to see whether there are possibilities of gigs.
References
Name (Reference 1):
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Piero Regnante
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Name (Reference 2):
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Elizabeth Newingtom
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Status:
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Church Band Leader
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Status:
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Music Teacher
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Telephone No:
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07908311609 |
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Example Of A Session Musician's CV
http://jamesbeedham.com/cv.htm
Music marketing Job Advert
Advert:
http://jobview.monster.co.uk/Marketing-Team-Leader-–-Music-Culture-Job-Greenford-London-UK-184441945.aspx?WT.mc_n=olm_sk_feed_indeed_UK
How I Would Market Myself for the Job:
I am a motivated and highly skilled musician who is always reliable. I am a strong character and bring creativity and energy to my performance. I am at a Grade 7 level of drumming and am soon going to be taking my Grade 8 exam. I am a very versatile musician who can play in many different settings and styles. I have played in Rock bands, Funk bands, Christian Worship bands, I have played in shows and plays with different resources and set ups at different events. I reiterate how reliable I am, if there is music to learn I will learn it extensively and I will always be competent by the performance day, I will show up to practises and meet ups on time and ill always be in a mood to learn and give my all.
Self-employed or Employed?
Being self-employed gives you the freedom to control your ambitions and career progress, you accept what jobs you want to do and you can choose who you'd like to work with and how to manage your time. Although this is good for individuality, it comes at a huge risk. When self-employed you cant guarantee money and you have to work extra hard to reap the rewards and be payed enough to live. Whereas being employed, although it lacks individuality and freedom as your targets are what the business' are or your employer's are, the risk is much less when it comes to the financial side to things. You will be payed a set salary which can change if you get promotions, with bonuses and salary increases a possibility.
http://jamesbeedham.com/cv.htm
Music marketing Job Advert
Advert:
http://jobview.monster.co.uk/Marketing-Team-Leader-–-Music-Culture-Job-Greenford-London-UK-184441945.aspx?WT.mc_n=olm_sk_feed_indeed_UK
How I Would Market Myself for the Job:
I am a motivated and highly skilled musician who is always reliable. I am a strong character and bring creativity and energy to my performance. I am at a Grade 7 level of drumming and am soon going to be taking my Grade 8 exam. I am a very versatile musician who can play in many different settings and styles. I have played in Rock bands, Funk bands, Christian Worship bands, I have played in shows and plays with different resources and set ups at different events. I reiterate how reliable I am, if there is music to learn I will learn it extensively and I will always be competent by the performance day, I will show up to practises and meet ups on time and ill always be in a mood to learn and give my all.
Self-employed or Employed?
Being self-employed gives you the freedom to control your ambitions and career progress, you accept what jobs you want to do and you can choose who you'd like to work with and how to manage your time. Although this is good for individuality, it comes at a huge risk. When self-employed you cant guarantee money and you have to work extra hard to reap the rewards and be payed enough to live. Whereas being employed, although it lacks individuality and freedom as your targets are what the business' are or your employer's are, the risk is much less when it comes to the financial side to things. You will be payed a set salary which can change if you get promotions, with bonuses and salary increases a possibility.
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