Music business: where to start when you want to live from your music
Making, standing out, reaching, surrounding yourself, getting paid: the five areas of an independent music career, the assumptions that cost…
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Practical advice for independent and self-releasing musicians, drawn from real cases: artist interviews, live situations, studio sessions. Each guide starts from a video and expands on it — with the technical benchmarks, the figures and the links that spoken word leaves out.
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Music business: where to start when you want to live from your music
Making, standing out, reaching, surrounding yourself, getting paid: the five areas of an independent music career, the assumptions that cost you, and where to begin.
The videos are in French — the guides are written in English.
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Every guide starts from a video and expands on it — the video plays inside the guide.
Borrowing other people’s audiences: composing for podcasts, theatre and video
Podcasts, short films, plays and video channels all need original music. A free, largely ignored lever — provided you insist…
YouTube for musicians: the most underused platform in your promotion
Streaming gives you one format: the track. A video channel takes six, brings you viewers on its own, and leaves…
Instrumental practice: what American musicians do differently
Usable from the very first note, with no warm-up phase. The difference is not talent but playing hours —…
Making a living from music without being famous: the trades behind the scenes
Fame is one revenue model among others, not a precondition. The behind-the-scenes trades that pay, why they are more accessible…
Mastering for musicians: what it actually does and when to book it
The most misunderstood stage in music production, and the cheapest. What mastering really covers, why loudness wars are over…
Home studio or professional studio: how to decide, take by take
The studio is a fascinating place, and an expensive default. Three criteria to decide take by take, and the spending…
The gimmick as a recognition device: the Dire Straits lesson
Three or four notes and you know the song. Mark Knopfler calls it setting the scene.
Reworking your own tracks: the catalogue relaunch independents forget
A released track is not finished. Reinterpreting your own songs is one of the rare visibility levers that needs no…
Building your team as a musician: the list method
Hiring from a CV is a bet; calling back someone you have seen work is a decision.
Your music is your business card: the career lesson of Cassius
A record tells a whole profession what you can do. How the Cassius sound turned Philippe Zdar into a sought-after…
Do you need a mixing console in a home studio? Nicolas Godin of Air says no
Nicolas Godin has no mixing console in his own studio. What a console really gives you, what it costs…