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Project Management for Musicians: Recordings, Concerts, Tours, Studios, and More (Music Business: Project Management) Paperback – January 1, 2013

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(Berklee Press). Get organized, and take charge of your music projects! This book will help you harness your creativity into clear visions and effective work plans. Whether you are producing a recording, going on tour, developing a studio, launching a business, running a marketing campaign, creating a music curriculum, or any other project in the music industry, these road-tested strategies will help you to succeed. Music projects come in all sizes, budgets, and levels of complexity, but for any project, setting up a process for planning, executing, and monitoring your work is crucial in achieving your goals. This book will help you clarify your vision and understand the work required to complete it on time, within budget, and to your highest possible quality standard. It is a comprehensive approach, with hundreds of music industry-specific tools for keeping your work on track, mitigating risk, and reducing stress, so that you can complete your project successfully. You will learn to: develop work strategies; delegate tasks; build and manage teams; organize your project office; develop production schedules; understand and organize contracts; analyze risk; and much more.

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This excellent and accessible compilation of strategies combines modern technology and project management practices with a deep understanding of the music industry. Whether you are more enthused by the creative dimensions of your work or the logistical ones, Project Management for Musicians will help you become more successful. --Brent Frei, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Smartsheet

Project management is undoubtedly the backbone of success. The diversity of tools in this book will not only help you to plan ahead; they will truly trace the path and change the way you see things in order to complete your goals. --Ariel Rivas, Grammy-award winning producer, World Tour Manager, and Booking Agent (Rubén Blades, Don Omar, Danny Rivera)

If you've ever thought that the music is the easy part and it's everything else that's hard, then this is the book for you. Project Management for Musicians will give you common sense tools to organize your thinking, planning, and management of all those other things besides the music that are so critical to your success in the music business. --Alan Sierichs, Former Commander/Conductor of the Air Force Band, Washington, DC

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Jonathan Feist is Editor in Chief of Berklee Press, where he has helped bring over 150 commercial music products to a worldwide market since 1998. He is the author and instructor of two Berklee music courses: Project Management for Musicians and Music Notation with Finale. He is also the co-author of two books: Essential Songwriter and the Berklee Practice Method Teacher's Guide.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berklee Press (January 1, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0876391358
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0876391358
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.65 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.04 x 11 inches

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Jonathan Feist is author of "Project Management for Musicians" (2015 International Book Awards winner), "Berklee Contemporary Music Notation," "Music Industry Forms," "Essential Songwriter," and "The Berklee Practice Method Teacher's Guide." He is editor in chief of Berklee Press, where he has been bringing music education products to a worldwide market since 1998. He teaches project management and music notation using Finale at Berklee's online school (online.berklee.edu). Connect with him via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jonathanfeistmusic?ref=hl.

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SAM

A "Must Have" Book for Anyone in Music....

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013

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To simply put it, this book is packed with information. It covers every aspect of the music industry and the various types of projects one could experience either as a song writer, producer, small business, a musician or anything in between. There are sections on risk management, hiring, business management, assigning tasks; the list goes on.
There are also shared thoughts, ideas, strategies on how to handle things like meetings, workspaces and vampires. Don't let the size of the book scare you. The chapters and sections are well marked and easy to read and follow. There is some humor that keeps the reading fresh.

I have had specialized courses in bank project management, computer project management, independent time management and Covey time management; this book is the best one I've seen in it's industry.

To keep in the spirit of the book here are my "CLOSING THOUGHTS":

I don't read a lot of books, but I find this book very powerful and very important for project management. I have four music based projects that I have to do, set up a curriculum, write record and produce a CD, start a small business and create a non-profit studio. I am already using the lessons from this book and I know it will help me achieve success on all four of these projects and future projects.

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Shastina W

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2022

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This book is a fantastic guide for musicians, but is also useful for general project management (e.g. home and work projects!). It's easy to follow, is entertaining to read (the author has a great sense of humor), includes practical diagrams, and I appreciate that the author shares some of his own experiences, which I can frequently relate, so I'll be able to put these methods to use for future projects. Really happy with my purchase!

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Jb

Outstanding and even better as part of the Berklee course!

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2019

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This book is phenomenal! I purchased this book for the Berklee Online Course "Project Management for Musicians." The book alone gives a very detailed and precise depiction of the various tools and techniques used when managing projects; both at the industry level, as well as scaled down to a personal level. The only thing the book doesn't do is put the techniques and tools into practice for you, besides a few practice scenarios at the end of each chapter that I would highly recommended doing. With the Berklee Online Course, which is extremely intense and project heavy, it reinforces what's in the book and requires that the student manages multiple (major) projects properly (both the students projects as well as other students projects), while at the same time submitting weekly assignments and exercises, in order to get a good grade. So, while the book is fantastic on its own, it is especially fantastic and life-changing when coupled with the Berklee course.

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The Kindle version is poorly implemented.

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018

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My issues are not with the content (the content is great and as someone who has a software engineering background I was impressed to see mentions of agile and scrum in a book targeting towards the music industry... gives me a sense that the research was well done), it is the layout, or lack there of. The Kindle version is horribly laid out. The first problem is that there are no page numbers so if you've been given an assignment using this book that tells you what page numbers to read (and this is the case for Berklee Online's Project Management for Musicians course that uses this book), you literally have no idea where to start reading, or stop reading without asking the instructor what the text on the first and last page says. Kind of a giant pain if you have to skip around. The second problem is that whomever laid out the chapters didn't know what they were doing. Literally every bolded section within a chapter is considered itself, a chapter. This makes the predictive reading timer completely useless. If you have a reading disability and you rely on this feature for planning how much time it's going to take to finish the next assignment, you're out of luck because it will almost always say "2 minutes left in chapter" because what it thinks is a chapter tag is only a paragraph or two away. Finally, the graphics. Some of the graphics are so minuscule that you can't even see them with a magnifying glass. Forget about trying to click on them to enlarge them, as per the standard Kindle interface, because they aren't selectable.

There's few books I've had a problem with on the Kindle, this is one of them. I'd recommend getting the print version until they're able to properly format, and index the Kindle version.

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the more you know, the more prepared you'll be

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2018

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a lot of what this book covers is common business sense - no brainer stuff. what makes this so valuable is that the majority of musicians I have dealt with over the years have ZERO business sense. this really is a must read for anyone in the music business. some reviews complain the information is too basic. yea, there is a lot of basic information but the book also covers other information that is easily overlooked or not obvious. lets face it, music performance is a business. once a musician who is in music for fun crosses the line into the professional realm they'll need all the information they can get their hands on and this book is a good starting point. the more you know, the better. the music business can be brutal.

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John A.

Every Musician Should Own This Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2019

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If you're a working independent musician, this book is a must for you. The most effective tools of project planning, execution, and closure in the corporate sector are realistically applied to the music world, from brainstorming a new project to closure. Jonathan Feist invites readers into a conversation but he guides and never lectures. The prose is clear, easily understood, and with an economy of words that both experienced musicians and newcomers alike will understand. Feist's wry sense of humor is a bonus. This Berklee Press book is made of high quality materials. No corner were cut in the printing of heavier stock pages, and this book will survive bouncing around in a backpack.

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Jorge Arturo Alcázar

Good content, bad cutting in the edges

Reviewed in Mexico on September 9, 2023

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The content, which is actually the most important, is quite good and interesting. The only disappointing part is that, I needed to separate page by page because it has terribly bad manufacturing. This was very evident before packing, so I would have appreciated they pick a piece in good shape.

Momchil

I consider it a must have for freelance musicians.

Reviewed in Germany on March 31, 2022

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Definitely a great book.

Hugo Vázquez

Excelente libro

Reviewed in Mexico on January 26, 2021

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Contrario a otras reseñas que dicen que se enfoca en Music Business, este libro en realidad es como el PMBOK para músicos. Si llevaste la clase de Administración de Proyectos o trabajas como consultor se te harán muy familiares los temas que se ven aquí. Este libro lo que hace es llevar las bases de la administración de proyectos al nivel de la música con ejemplos de conciertos, tours, estudios, etc. Así que si tienes problema para administrar tus proyectos musicales este libro es para ti.

Si estás buscando un libro de Music Business te recomiendo el libro "All You Need to Know About the Music Business" de Donald Passman.

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Xin

Very informative. It's worth to read.

Reviewed in Canada on April 3, 2020

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Learned a lot from reading this book...The reading experience was full of joy.

Matthias Seibert

Great read !! Good knowledge inside

Reviewed in Germany on May 7, 2019

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Really great insides here for my bachelor in Music Management ... rest of the books hasn’t been that strong but this was really cool

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