The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business is a detailed analysis of the subjects that all musicians should understand and apply in order to pursue a successful and sustainable career in music. Full of ideas and practical advice, this book provides comprehensive detail on how to optimize success and achieve sustainability and self-empowerment in today’s music business. From production and performance to marketing and career-building, this book instructs artists on how to take the hard-earned lessons of a fellow musician and put them to work in their own careers.
 
Few books currently provide both the spectrum of information needed by someone just starting out in the music business as well as a window onto the complex facets of the industry faced by seasoned professionals.
 
My advice is both inside and outside the box. It’s not an ego-driven rant, but a delivery system of information and insight gathered throughout my career, which has spanned almost two decades of unprecedented change in the music industry. It is the kind of book that will be found in practice spaces, in instrument cases, in recording studios, and on the bedside table. This is not a reference book to be read on rare occasions but a guide to be constantly consulted. Every miniscule detail is not addressed, but the broad spectrum of ideas, applications, and methods is laid out in a solid blueprint form. It delivers ideas on how to communicate with everyone from your band mates to people in the industry. It will make you consider whose advice you are listening to and what you can take away from every person you come across and every book you read, as well as what you should leave behind. It will make you question what you want, what you can do and what you need to do today, next week, next month, and next year.
 
That said, the book does not draw or create an exact approach because there is no one exact approach to success in the music business. What rings true for you in these pages? What bad habits can you get rid of, and what good ones can you build on? It’s the artists’ responsibility to learn and analyze the industry and, from there, to organize the ideas presented here into a plan that they will execute on their own for themselves. This book will be a reference point. It won’t carry you. It’s not the answer to success in the music business. But it will guide you to the explosive ideas, methods, and applications for artist production, empowerment, and sustainability in today’s music industry, and how you can make them work for you and your career. In the end, it’s up to you.