Music Business 007: Music Business, #7

By James Bruce

As the days and months go by, I will be publishing a series of ebooks about the subjects that I have encountered for the last 35 years concerned with the business of music. This collection of eBooks will also be offered as a softback, hardback, and as an audio book. Each eBook will contain between 20-30 pages of necessary and critical subject matter that I feel anyone that needs to know or wants to learn critical information about the music business. I assure you if you have or are interested in a career in the music business you will learn and hopefully success in this business. Teaching the business of music including courses on artist development, marketing, promotion, production, and resources of your choice. I look forward to working with you in my classes. Helping anyone interested in the music business paving a path to a successful career.  This ebook 007.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Bruce
• Release date: Oct 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223775867

James Bruce

About the Author by Marcia Ferko      Meet James Bruce, author, producer, agent, manager, business owner, and proud dad, grandpa, and great-grandpa. This accomplished individual’s life story invites you to also seek and find the best of yours.      His generous, Christian and passionate heart for others has opened doors of opportunity and success for many.  Through his own trial and error of failures and successes, he has shared his riches of wisdom with others. He has become an ambassador and liaison in both the private and professional settings and has been a mentor to many.      Through years of life experiences, Jim has become a conduit of knowledge for the past and the present. He tries to capture both as you read through his wealth of information here with him.  We all can learn from each other’s life and Jim’s life is certainly a unique example of that.      His adventure is not through yet. His mantra still is “Dance while music is still playing and live your best life while it still lies before you!!!

Book preview

Chapter 48

Improve Your Performance Skills

By Vinny Ribas

1. Take acting lessons. Acting lessons will help you to communicate better with your audiences. You will learn how to use the stage better, when to look at or away from an audience, how to use facial expressions and much more. They can also assist you in overcoming stage fright.

2. Hire a performance coach. Performance coaches help you make every song and every movement you make on stage visually and auditorily attractive. Everything you do should be pre-planned and have a purpose to it, but rehearsed so well that it looks 100% spontaneous and natural.

3. Study and emulate great performers. Pay close attention to the performers you admire most and determine what it was that attracted you to them. Was it their timing? Their appearance? The way they interacted with the audience. Read their biographies to find out where their inspiration came from. Scrutinize their performances, and then try to copy their techniques while still making the product your own.

4. Take vocal lessons. – Even if you are a skilled vocalist, you should always be taking vocal lessons. It is the only way to continue to improve as well as maintain your voice over the long term. Even the most famous and revered singers in the world have vocal coaches. Find a coach who will challenge you.

5. Do your vocal exercises. This will help your voice be warmed up and sound its best from the first note you sing. Do not forget your cooling down exercises as well to protect your voice.

6. Take instrument lessons. Even the best musicians take advanced lessons. This does not just keep your skill level up to par; it enables you to get even better. There is no limit to how proficient and skilled you can be. Find a teacher who will challenge you.

7. Practice your instrument. To be the best, you need to do what all other revered entertainers do – practice incessantly. This keeps you at the top of your game.

8. Learn from training books, CDs, DVDs, workshops, and seminars. There are many amazing teaching tools and online resources that can help you be

a better performer. Research the best teachers in your area of interest, and chances are they have some teaching materials available.

9.Follow blogs.

10.Rehearse everything as a group. Every movement, note and word of your performances should be rehearsed. This means that the entire act needs to rehearse together so that the interactions on stage are seamless.

11.Rehearse individually. Practice and learn your songs and anything else