Does anyone here make serious money from their music?

**Greg_L** · 12-29-2012

Originally Posted by Chili

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

No, as in paid downloads. There is a lot of $.00001 streaming, but paid downloads too.

**Armistice** · 12-29-2012

Originally Posted by jimmys69

We spent it on sushi

Absolutely badass Jimmy....

As for the question.... no - I play for $25 bar vouchers... some gigs $20, but this is Australia and it's a different world over here in the live scene...

**Armistice** · 12-29-2012

Originally Posted by Armistice

Absolutely badass Jimmy....

As for the question.... no - I play for $25 bar vouchers... some gigs $20, but this is Australia and it's a different world over here in the live scene...

Ah, just noticed we not only live in the same country but the same city... you'd know all about the live scene in Sydney then...

**Lt. Bob** · 12-29-2012

Originally Posted by Lukesteele

I suspect gigging is gonna be a coverband deal at best right? YMMV.

so? The only way any musicians get good enough to be really skillful on their axes is by gigging. Hard to gig all the time unless a lotta it is covers.

Plus ... the very best top tier jazz players often mostly play 'covers'.
And the very best top tier classical players play 'covers'.
The term cover doesn't have much meaning.
Some people play covers as if they're a record player duplicating every note.
Others play covers like I do which is to play them so totally in their own style and like they wish that there's almost as much original stuff there as if it weren't a cover.

And yes, I have played in all original bands ...... probably will again ...... but I don't really see the difference since, to me, it's all about how virtuostic you get on your ax.

**Chili** · 12-29-2012

Originally Posted by Armistice

Absolutely badass Jimmy....

As for the question.... no - I play for $25 bar vouchers... some gigs $20, but this is Australia and it's a different world over here in the live scene...

Ah, just noticed we not only live in the same country but the same city... you'd know all about the live scene in Sydney then...

Um, you're talking to yourself again....

**Armistice** · 12-29-2012

Originally Posted by Chili

Um, you're talking to yourself again....

Someone has to.....

**miroslav** · 12-29-2012

Originally Posted by Lt. Bob

....but I don't really see the difference since, to me, it's all about how virtuostic you get on your ax.

Yeah....that's the thing I miss about gigging, it really hones your playing skills...and certainly, doing covers pushes that maybe a bit more, if you are doing a huge variety of covers....but doing any kind of lgigs will help, as long as you have a desire to do them well.

Not saying that studio work is easy....it's just different, you can think about what you want to do, and then do it a bunch of times, plus you are focused on one song, one part....whereas during a gig, you are playing a different song every few minutes, so you have to be on your toes.

**chuckduffy** · 12-29-2012

Originally Posted by Greg_L

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.

Which one? I have a guess, would love to know :-)