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Some Unknown Jobs In The Music Industry

Owen Jones — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:28:19 +0000

If you like music a great deal, you may be dreaming of going into some area of the music industry yourself. Undoubtedly, you will have been told that this is notoriously difficult and I am not trying to suggest that it is not, but maybe most people who are trying to get into the music industry are applying for the same jobs.

The list of jobs available in the music industry must include teachers, songwriters, doctors, therapists and many others, not only singers and musicians, so it pays to think laterally if you want to head in this direction, because traffic on the main highway is usually at a stand-still. Anyway, here is a list of other jobs in the music industry and I hope that it is of some help to you.

There are jobs with music and record firms for staff song-writers, that is, for people who compose songs for the artists who are contracted to that label. Find a couple of artists that you respect working for the same label, compose some songs for them and apply.

If you cannot find a solitary label that suits you, you could do the same job as a freelance song-writer. This way you are not restricted and can compose for all the artists that you like.

If you are clever with words but not such a hot musician, you could become a lyricist. A lyricist may or may not team up with a musician to create a song. Like Gilbert & Sullivan or Rogers & Hammerstein.

Jingle-writers are forever in demand, at least decent ones are. Jingles require to be short but catchy. Composing jingles pays decent money, but it will perhaps not make you famous outside the music industry.

A music publisher scours the market for freelance songs and buys up the copyright or license to publish those songs or to sell or license them to singers and musicians.

A music editor might work with a composer or song-writer to ensure that the timing and the cues for the musicians and singers are practicable.

Notesetters have to have a decent ear for music as their job is to write down in musical form what untrained musicians play to them. There are many, many modern musicians who cannot write a note of music but who can produce very popular songs. These songs have to be written down by someone and that someone is a notesetter.

A talent scout in the music industry has the official title of Artist & Repertoire Co-ordinator or A&R Co-ordinator for short. A step up from this rank is the A&R Administrator, who co-ordinates the co-ordinators and sets and monitors their budgets – a type of a musical accountant.

Then there are the jobs in public relations. These people usually work for record labels. They promote the artists who have signed onto a record firm’s label. There are quite a few degrees of responsibility in this department.

An agent or an relations representative, is aperson who manages his client and finds him or her work. They check the contracts and give business advice. They are well-|known as ‘Mr. Ten Percent’ although in practice it is normally double this unless you are famous.

Campus representatives advertise records to students and promotional staffers promote wherever they can – radio channels, shops, musical directors.

Music teachers teach music to groups from pre-school through to college level. Their duties differ with the age of the student and the purpose of the class.

A music director has the job of supervising policy in school or college or setting the entertainment for a cruise or a holiday camp, hotel or holiday complex.

Then there are organists in churches all over the country, who often double in other musical careers.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a variety of topics, but is now involved with Bose new wave radios. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Bose Digital Radio.

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[WMM] An effective program.

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:07:02 +0000

Windows Movie Maker is a very easy and effective program to use. This shows you many of the effects.

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Double Eagle M85 (g36c) review

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:54:22 +0000

Double Eagle M85 (g36c) review
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Double Eagle M85 (g36c) review is a post from: The Business Communication Blog

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Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show_7/24/08:”End of The Dollar”

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:30:02 +0000

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Shall We Break Bread: Ron Paul on Fox Business News 9/24/08

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:36:00 +0000

Congressman Ron Paul Schools Bernanke on the Bailout Plan inflation money Currency dollar
Shall We Break Bread: Ron Paul on Fox Business News 9/24/08
Ron Paul Says “Call Them!”

In a Letter from Ron: Time is running out Ron Paul is urging everyone to “Call Them!”.
With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it. Call them! Let them hear from you! Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.

The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?

When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?

Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.

In liberty,

Ron Paul

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Shall We Break Bread: Ron Paul on Fox Business News 9/24/08 is a post from: The Business Communication Blog

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Democrats To Confiscate 401(k)s and IRAs To keep you Safe!!!

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:32:06 +0000

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Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show_7/24/08:”End of The Dollar”

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Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show_7/24/08:”End of The Dollar” is a post from: The Business Communication Blog

Learn English 76 – Office Tour

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:02:21 +0000

Focus: compare quite and rather
Language: rhetorical question: do you mind?

KATE: Sorry I’m a bit late. The traffic was atrocious
CAROLINE: No problem. Well, I’ll be showing you around today. Shall we get started?
KATE: Let’s do it.
CAROLINE: As you can see, this is an open plan office.
KATE: Yes, it’s rather large. How many people work here?
CAROLINE: We employ approximately 100 in this office alone. We’ve also got two plants outside the city with another 250 staff.
KATE: So quite a large company then?
CAROLINE: A very small company considering that we are a Public Limited Company. I guess we are medium-sized.
KATE: So what do they do down here?
CAROLINE: That’s our sales department. That’s our marketing department.
KATE: And this is reception, right?
CAROLINE: Yes, this is our main reception area. Oh, the phone is ringing… mind if I answer it?

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Learn English 76 – Office Tour is a post from: The Business Communication Blog

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