I was shocked to find out that world class musicians, musicians that are 10x better than the musicians around them, usually charge exactly the same as an average musician.
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With the music industry still in trying to find it’s financial footing after years of massive change, full time musicians are still trying to figuring out how to make it possible to pay bills and have a music career (that includes me). Here are 5 ways successful musicians are making money on the side while still spending most of their time playing music:
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DJ’s regularly use cross faders to adjust the volume of two sound sources simultaneously (i.e. fade out one track while fading in another track). There are several really useful ways to use a crossfader as a keyboardist- probably my favorite is adjusting the volume balance between two channel strips (a piano and a pad, for instance). Here’s how to do it:
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I spend a lot of time on the road, and the podcast Snap Judgements makes the time go by a lot faster with it’s true stories. These guys tell the most entertaining non-fiction stories about everything from escaping the muslim mafia, to discovering secret boiling rivers in the Amazon.
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I realized that I've never shared which MainStage blogs were the most read of all time. Here’s the results, according to the numbers:
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