Music Business: Baby Steps


Dear Music Lover,

This weekend, I was reading the seventh edition of Passman’s “All You Need To know About The Music Business” and a “Dun Dun” Netflix moment occurred to me. LoL. Let’s chill out and take our minds on a stroll for a moment to imagine the basis of comparison between a neurosurgeon and a music professional or rock star? What? Brain racking. You see what I did there. Hehe.

I promised myself to take baby steps and understand everything about the music business especially about the comparison the author mentioned. And voila! The basis of comparing both professionals was their creativity and business ethic. This made me understand how the author’s explanation on his love for music, practicing music law and how landing his first showbiz gig in general shaped his life.

Leggo! Both professionals have to perfect their craft brilliantly, generate huge sums of money without the need for any financial skills and be schooled up in how the business works. It is easier to accept that a medical professional should go through this rigor, but for a music professional. Nah fam. People will not readily accept the fact because they expect music to be relatively easy.

However, let us flash it back to  when we took music in secondary school, learning a lot on the g-clef and f-clef was crazy especially writing and detecting music notes, like duh, why you gon treat me like I am Beethoven nitori Olorun? I just thought we would be singing and taking different parts whilst training our voices. Mhen, the theory of music then was hard! Imagine having to face further complications of mixing, mastering, recording, using 808’s, bass, modulating and other intricacies that digitization has brought in today’s terms, not to mention the costs of setting all up just for a song. Now you get the intricacy for the music person yeah.

In the same vein, anytime we learn a new skill we go through a similar process. At first, things either look deceptively simple, or like a bewildering blur of chaos. Nevertheless, as you learn what to look for; you see a world you never knew was there. To work your way through this discovery process and become a “trained professional,” you need a guide to the basics — a framework in which to organize the bits and pieces. That is the purpose of this piece — to give you a map through the jungle, and show you where the loopholes are and ensure that by paying attention to details, early results and choosing your adventure in music business, you succeed.

In conclusion, please you will be required to link my Saturday articles on music business together as it will be a string following a trail of author's thoughts! I hope you are happy to go on this music business tour with me, albeit virtual and through writing.

Love always,

Aramide 💌

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