Learn how to develop a thriving career in music. Host Adam Meckler talks with artists about how they've built their careers, and music industry professionals about strategies for navigating a music career in the digital age. Meckler draws on his extensive career as a bandleader and freelancer (Cory Wong, Dave Koz, Steve Cole, The Hornheads, Youngblood Brass Band) to bring you tips for growing your fan base, prepping for the gig, booking a tour, writing that grant, syncing that song and more.
Presented by Gig Boss.
Adam talks with two music technology founders about their software, why they built it, and how they use it. Adam, Jeff, and Anton even discuss some music tech startup ideas that any musician could start to build today.
Jeff and Anton have also organized a music technology event called Wavefront (www.wavefrontmn.com (http://www.wavefrontmn.com)) that will feature a bunch of MN-based music technology companies including Jamstik (https://jamstik.com/ (https://jamstik.com/)) and Campfire Foundation (https://www.cfmusic.org/ (https://www.cfmusic.org/)), among others.
Tickets to Wavefront (August 1st, 2024) are free, but you must have tickets to attend. You can find tickets here: www.wavefrontmn.com (http://www.wavefrontmn.com)
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Jeff and Anton's company Caedence: https://caedence.io/ (https://caedence.io/)
(synchronized practice and performance control)
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Interested in hearing music made by our awesome guests? Check out this Spotify playlist, which includes music by all our music-making guests! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63kUrVwtV5tYFsyqLJHO3a?si=7853ba778dff4654 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63kUrVwtV5tYFsyqLJHO3a?si=7853ba778dff4654)
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Intro/Outro music "Far Away From here" : https://adammeckler.hearnow.com/ (https://adammeckler.hearnow.com/)
3 Jun 2024TRANSCRIPT
Becoming a Professional Musician
In this episode of HMMI, Adam sits down with his old friend Bjorn on the Life. Money. You. podcast and discusses what it was like for Adam to build his career as a professional musician. How did Adam even out the month-to-month swings of full time freelance income? How did Adam get his first gigs, and begin to build a paying audience of fans for his music? These questions are answered and then some. Listen as Adam discusses his side hustles including pulling back the curtain on Gig Boss, and his AirBnB. How Adam got his first educational gigs, and how he diversifies his income (and how that saved him from near disaster) are also on the table.
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Interested in hearing music made by our awesome guests? Check out this Spotify playlist, which includes music by all our music-making guests! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63kUrVwtV5tYFsyqLJHO3a?si=7853ba778dff4654 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63kUrVwtV5tYFsyqLJHO3a?si=7853ba778dff4654)
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Intro/Outro music "Far Away From here" : https://adammeckler.hearnow.com/ (https://adammeckler.hearnow.com/)
20 May 2024TRANSCRIPT
Braxton Cook: Signing to a Record Label, Finding a Manager, Building a Team
Adam talks with Saxophonist/vocalist/composer Braxton Cook about how he first got connected in the music scene during his time as a student at Julliard, how he found is first manager, why he decided to sign his first multi-album record deal, how a young musician can develop language, his desert island albums and a bunch more.
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Follow Braxton in Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/105491034183068?hl=en (https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/105491034183068?hl=en)
Braxton on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BraxtonCook (https://www.patreon.com/BraxtonCook)
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/60k4atxgEIMFz4DWHp0le1 (https://open.spotify.com/artist/60k4atxgEIMFz4DWHp0le1)
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This podcast is brought to you by Gig Boss App. The Gig Boss App is a one stop shop organizational tool for freelance musicians and bandleaders. Anyone can use it for free. We built this app because HMMI host Adam Meckler struggled to organize his schedule, finances, and the details of a gig while playing . Get your band on the same page. You'll never have to tell someone the wifi password again. It's in the app.
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Join the Gig Boss Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gigboss (https://www.facebook.com/groups/gigboss)
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Interested in hearing music made by our awesome guests? Check out this Spotify playlist, which includes music by all our music-making guests! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63kUrVwtV5tYFsyqLJHO3a?si=7853ba778dff4654 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63kUrVwtV5tYFsyqLJHO3a?si=7853ba778dff4654)
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Intro/Outro music "Far Away From here" : https://adammeckler.hearnow.com/ (https://adammeckler.hearnow.com/)
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Two Music Technology Ideas You Could Start Today
Published 25 Jul 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Pedal boards for, uh, for big spaceship like pedal boards. Exactly. Um, so, um, yeah, it's, uh, I, we basically, you know, in terms of the idea and the feature bloat as it were, we were basically kind of like little kids in a candy store in the sense of like, we, let's give ourselves everything we've ever really wanted. […]
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