Money in electronic music?

[ehbes]

im not really into the bro sound ,but il have to make money so thought maybe il jump in it to ,,just for the cash,,

That's called selling out. Do you want to be a sell-out?

man call it whatever...but my plan is making brop tunes and realeasing them,and on the side i can still make deep tunes that i enjoy and love producing.my mom is working 24 hours to pay for my school and everything,i dont think i am the best producer in the world ,but i think that i can make SOME money.

Going into production for the sole purpose of making money is the wrong way to go about it

[alpz]

Going into production for the sole purpose of making money is the wrong way to go about it

[Genevieve]

Ask With Maps....

[gen_]

it's saturday; this week, i've:

--produced a bachata track for clients, based on their surprisingly dope garageband demo
--recorded percussion for one of bjork's bandmates;
--taught my weekly percussion classes;
--met w/ an artist i've worked with before who's looking for a musical director for her recently-funded-via-grant project;
--done a few teaching artist gigs accompanying dance classes;
--written a song w/ a songwriter in town from Sweden, recommended to each other via folks at ASCAP;
--recorded a hiphop tune for a friend's intern;
--mixed a punjabi record for an artist's upcoming debut release;
--done mix edits for a clients 3rd LP

some pay upfront, some are expected to pay down the line, some perhaps offer no $ but a host of good networking opportunities.

I haven't had a "day job" in 9 years, and pay bills making/teaching/recording/producing music.

Pretty much non-starving person on the creative side of the industry that i know works like this. If you want to make $ making music, you have to do anything and everything that's worthwhile doing. If you just want to make $ while being around music, work at a publishing company/management co/label/etc.

This. I've made money from music any way I can, in fact I'll go as far as to say, I would have never made 'bro-steppy' tunes if there wasn't someone at the end of the phone offering me £400 for one. I'd have stuck to purple. But there was, and because of that I've sold beats to artists from here in London (I've moved since updating my info) to New York. I'm nowhere near Sharm's level, but I'm learning guitar just to run workshops, make brostep beats just to sell. Am basically a 19 year old orphan scraping by off music paying his own rent and the only person involved on a close level is my manager.

And that's the other thing. If you want to be a money making force in music, you have to be a people person. You have to think to yourself that every time you meet an artist, label manager, hell anyone who sounds like their into music at all, you will actively 'seduce' them in the sense that you will make them desire your skills and/or your brand. Whether you do that by expertise (offering advice), character (being an impressionable guy) or raw musical talents, you will only get them if they like both you, what you are about, and your sound.