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How Not to Destroy Your Career in Music: Avoiding the Common Mistakes Most Musicians Make

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Bruce Haring's book "How Not To Destroy Your Career In Music" is a must-have for your music business library.

In 166 pages he details how to avoid virtually every pitfall that could come your way during the planning, promotion and most other phases of your music career.

Each section of this book includes bullet-lists of the material just covered and summarizes points that are absolutely key to both maintaining and moving forward with your career plans.

His advice and guidelines are not only well worth your time, but absolutely essential.

Add this book to your music business library and experience first class advice and guidance.

How Not To Destroy Your Career in Music is a practical guide for anyone starting a career in music, written by musician, filmmaker and award-winning author Bruce Haring. Recognizing that the music industry has transformed radically in the past five years due to the digital revolution, How Not To Destroy Your Career in Music covers such topics as music publishing, marketing and promotion, retail and direct sales, the age barrier, touring, the do-it-yourself movement, why one shouldn't hand over one's assets to the first A&R person to show up with a check, and much more. Written in plain terms accessible to the lay reader, How Not To Destroy Your Career in Music is an absolute "must-have" for anyone aspiring to make a profit off of their musical talents.

Bruce covers areas like networking and getting involved in certain organizations. He deals with licensing your music for film and television. He also gets into one of the hottest areas of licensing these days, putting your music into video games.

Pitching your music, getting the right amount of publicity and the types of record sales needed to succeed are all elements of the book that provide great insight.

If you are contemplating a career in music at all, this book is something you should read first. It has a whole bunch of information about the music industry and how to survive in it. Whether you become an act represented by a major label, sign on with an indie label or try to truly do it yourself, this book will provide insight that you won't find anywhere else.

Bruce Von Stiers - www.BVSReviews.com