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The Ultimate in Music Business Advice: Get Noticed Course

Want advice on how to develop your career as a musician? Don’t ask me. I’m still trying to figure out how to cram practicing, touring, and all the other stuff into an average week, while occasionally sleeping.

My friend Steve Grossman is the man I go to when I need career advice. With a 30+ year career as a session and touring musician, he’s been wildly successful with a number of bands, and even got a Grammy Award along the way for his work.

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Balanced Breakfast: Nashville Spotify Playlist

I help to lead a small music meet up group called Balanced Breakfast in Nashville made up of up and coming musicians, artists, and promoters in the scene. We all are constantly swapping cool music, and we made a spotify playlist of the tracks this week.

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Stealing Vs. Sharing

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10 Reasons Musicians Need A Website

I’m thinking about redesigning my website and I’ve been pondering: why should a musician we have a website? Here’s some of the things I think are perfectly good reasons to have a website:

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