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The Unstarving Musician

The Unstarving Musician’s Podcast features interviews with indie music artists an industry pros who share their experience and expertise on songwriting, recording, touring, getting gigs, marketing, and much more. It’s all intended to help indie artists to more of what they love–make music.

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One of the Best Ways to Get Good Musician Gigs – Unstarving Musician’s Guide Chapters 3-4 (Ep 106)

Jun 10, 2019

One of the Best Ways to Get Good Musician Gigs | Jon Christopher Davis is a master of building relationships to get good musician gigs. He also works in multiple bands | The Unstarving Musician's Guide to Getting Paid Gigs, chapters 3-4, read by RobonzoOne the best ways to get good musician gigs is by building good relationships. The primary theme of this episode is relationships.

This is the second installment and re-release of The Unstarving Musician’s Guide to Getting Paid Gigs. This episode is dedicated to chapters three and four, which are among the first few podcast episodes I ever recorded.

I also share a big announcement. If you need a little help and guidance moving the proverbial needle in your musician journey, tune in! You’ll learn about a special offer related to the big announcement. Intrigued? Be sure to listen before June 30th, or check out the link in the MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE section below.

Episode Highlights (what you’ll learn)

  • Why I wrote The Unstarving Musician’s Guide to Getting Paid Gigs
  • My personal experience working with multiple bands — the good and bad
  • The benefits of building a positive relationship with your bandmates, audiences, and venues
  • The advantages of working with multiple bands
  • How to build a good relationship with the people around you
  • What a Russian guy taught me about schmoozing
  • How networking at wineries with my wife played into getting gigs

3 Key Points

  1. Building good relationships with your bandmates, audiences, and venues pays big dividends toward getting good gigs.
  2. Working with multiple bands is like hiring a sales team. It helps you build connections you can leverage for years.
  3. Networking with other musicians and at venues will work in your favor. Schmooze and make some new friends!

Tweetable Quotes

  • Performing live offers a different kind of benefit from personal practice time and band practice. — Robonzo
  • Make your bandmates look good and you’ll always get the call for gigs. — Robonzo
  • Play [music] with people you respect and enjoy hanging out with and you’ll work well together.  — Robonzo

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