The Gigs Handbook: A Beginner's Guide to Playing Professionally - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967481309 ISBN 13: 9780967481302

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The Gigs Handbook teaches amateurs, student and working musicians alike how to begin playing music jobs. The reader takes a music class called "Gigs 101" along with four cartoon characters and learns how to make contacts and bookings, communicate with managers, charge and bill customers, consult and perform for weddings and special events and begin playing by ear. The book is especially recommended to pianists.

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Pianist and educator Sharon Black is a seasoned Chicago "gigger" who has also taught music at all grade levels and holds a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University. Credits include the Halloween musical, "Samhain", writing and performing for WBBM and WGN television and being a contributor to Clavier, a music journal.

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Welcome to Gigs 101. Black"pianist, educator, and seasoned gigger "has written the textbook. Most vocational guides available are of the So You Want To Be a Rock Star variety or focus on the ins and outs of making a record. This reference manual, however, covers the basics of practicing, establishing and maintaining contacts, arranging payment, auditions, programming, accompanying, goal setting, and other odds and ends. Addressed to amateurs, up-and-coming musicians, and working musicians alike, the information is accurate and authoritative, but the overall presentation is somewhat contrived. While illustrations can make all the difference in getting a point across, the cartoons here are excessive and distract from the professional focus of the book. With additional editing of the cartoons, this book would be a good addition to academic music business collections. As is, it is recommended for public libraries."Janet Brewer, Murray State Univ., KY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0967481309
• ISBN 13: 9780967481302
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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