Does anyone here make serious money from their music?

[Lukesteele]

...and define "from your music". Many of us gig and make good money playing live. I also sell drum tracks to other musicians. As far as selling recorded music? Does anyone BUY recorded music?

"from your music" means original music you create.."Does anyone BUY recorded music?" My point EXACTLY! So you sell samples of your drumming for how much? Why don't folk just use a good drum machine/program?

[Lukesteele]

Lucky you seein you don't have to change em next till 2017 right? lol

[Lukesteele]

Hey cool 2nd MOUSE! Where do you find you sell your music mostly from? ITunes? Reverbnation? etc?

[Greg_L]

Why don't folk just use a good drum machine/program?

Because real drums are always better. Always.

[Greg_L]

Ok. I define "serious money" enough to sustain your music career. And I really meant selling original music , not gigging, as I suspect gigging is gonna be a coverband deal at best right? YMMV.

I gig in an original material band and sell my music. I don't keep any of the money, and even if I did, it's not enough to sustain my lavish lifestyle. I do it because it's fun and I enjoy it. Only a naive fool thinks he's gonna make a living off his home recordings. I have one song in particular though that has inexplicably been purchased hundreds of times via various online retailing sites. I don't know how or why as i don't promote my shit at all. But this one song sells somehow.

[Steenamaroo]

Because real drums are always better. Always.

I've done a record and a few singles with a guy, always using sampled drums.
For the next record we're planning to approach a drummer to get real drums down.

That's not to say there's no place for midi/samples, but IMO it's never going to sound the same as real drums.

BTW, the money that comes in from royalties far exceeds any money from record sales.
I imagine that's the same for a lot of people at this level.

[Chili]

I have one song in particular though that has inexplicably been purchased hundreds of times via various online retailing sites. I don't know how or why as i don't promote my shit at all. But this one song sells somehow.

You mean as in streaming where you get paid $0.0001 per stream???

[RAMI]

"from your music" means original music you create.."Does anyone BUY recorded music?" My point EXACTLY! So you sell samples of your drumming for how much? Why don't folk just use a good drum machine/program?

Well, not really "samples". I have complete drum tracks that I sell for about 3 bucks a shot. They're tracks to my original tunes and a bunch of covers I've done. People buy them and chop them up for their songs.

But I also do custom drum tracks that I get up to $50 a shot for. People send me their demo with a click track, I play to it, send it back to them and they have real drums on their song.

As for why they don't just use a good drum machine, I guess the answer is because they want good sounding, well played drums.

[miroslav]

Does anyone here make serious money from their music?

Would you expect those people to be posting here....?

[jonny deep]

When I was a teenager I got paid £6 to play 5 songs at a college concert with my band. They were covers, though, so don't count, right?