Synchro-blogging-blitz on MusicianWages.com
Cameron Mizell and I are organizing a group blogging event on December 30th. We’ve done this once before and it was very interesting.
Here’s the idea: we pick a discussion topic, a whole bunch of bloggers write about it on their own blogs, and everyone publishes their posts on the same day. The last time we did it the topic dominated our local blogosphere for that day and some of the bloggers ended up getting attention from much bigger sites. It’s a cool thing, as long as it’s not overdone.
The topic this time is: If you could go back to 1999 and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?
It’s an interesting way to wrap up a very tumultuous decade in the music industry.
I wrote my response today, which will be posted on MusicianWages.com on the same date everyone else is supposed to post: December 30th. Here’s the beginning of mine:
Dear 1999 Dave,
Hey man. It’s 2009 Dave. I want to give you some advice.
Right now you’ve just finished your first semester of college. Congrats, but I know that you’re totally miserable. Music school isn’t what you thought it would be, and it seems like you’re behind everyone else in the program.
Well, listen, first off, that’s completely normal for a first year music student. If you knew everything already, you wouldn’t need to go to school, right? Believe it or not, there are probably a lot of other people there that feel that same way.
Second, (and in another 6 months you’ll understand this yourself) the program you are in is just not the right fit for you at all. Get out of there. The problem is that your program is just not emphasizing the skills that you will need to make a living as a working musician in the real world.
Ok, here’s my advice. I’m going to save you a lot of time and tell you which of your skills will make you the majority of your income for the next ten years. Then you can focus on those and we’ll both be better off.
To be continued on December 30th. Join us if you want – information here.
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