Tips for succeeding in the music industry
From ‘Jazz – Soul Food to Go’ by Serena Tan
Thursday, 18 September 2009
http://community.jobscentral.com.sg/node/757



1. Get yourself noticed. It’s no point having talent if no one but you knows about it. You have to make yourself and your passion known to people. Everyone knows someone, and that someone could open doors for you.

2. Hang out with the pros. Be humble and open enough to learn from those who have been in the profession longer than you. They can teach you what you might never learn on your own, and their experiences could even help shorten your learning curve.

3. Develop a reputation for excellence and dependability. If you want to go far, you have to put in the hours and keep practising till you’re perfect – and then practise some more! You also need to be known as someone who can be counted on, whether it is in terms of punctuality or taking the trouble to go through the score before a recording.

4. Be open to serendipity. Whether you call it chance or a lucky break, you have to be ready to move when opportunity knocks, because if you miss it, you might have to wait a really long time before it comes by again. Worse still, it might never come again.

5. Dare to dream. Better yet, dream big dreams. “When the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count!”