Music Industry Powerpoint Presentations
Jobs within the Music Industry?
I’ve gotta do this powerpoint presentation for my Media course and I’ve got to put some examples of Jobs within the Music Indistry. I’ve tried searching for them but it’s fruitless so I was hoping someone out there would be kind enough to give me a list of some of them?!?
Here are a few that mostly pertain to bands and live performance:
Booking Agents – We all know what these guys do. They’re the ones you call to book a band. They match the band up with the client, issue a contract, and then hit the band for 20% or so of the total agreed upon.
Manager – (Usually different from the “road manager”.) He guides the career of the band…most often from behind a desk with one hand on the computer and the other on a phone. Sometimes managers will show up at the gig, too. He works to influence people who are in positions to help the band achieve their goals to do so. He also instructs the band in ways to be prepared to make the most of opportunities that present themselves. The amount of control a manager might have varies from band to band. Some managers are just carrying out the orders of the band, some managers are the BOSS. Also, especially in lower level bands (like mine), the manager is actually IN the band.
Tour Logistics guys – They make arrangements for everything the act needs to get to the gig, do their job, sleep, and get to the next one. They handle things like transportation, meals, lodging, accomodations at the venue (dressing rooms, food, drinks, passes) etc.
Road Managers – They are the babysitters. They make sure the band does what it’s supposed to do when it’s supposed to do it. “OK, guys. Here are your room keys. Go shower and change and meet back here at the bus in 45 minutes. We have a radio drop-in at 3:30, soundcheck at 5:30, meet & greet at 7:00, and hit the stage around 9:45.” The road manager will make sure everything the band needs (and everything Mr. Logistics has arranged) is actually where in place. If the band members have any problems, that’s who the look to for a solution.
The Crew – They do the grunt work. Drive the bus or the equipment truck. Set up gear, run it during the show, tear it down. How big a crew there is or whether there is even a separate crew depends on how big an act you’re talking about. The band or some of its members may act as the crew. Many working bands around here have a soundman (engineer) who helps with set-up and tear-down, runs sound, and drives the truck. Some have a three-man crew: sound man, monitor man, light man. The next step is to add techs who handle particular instruments or groups of instruments. The guitar tech may set up guitars, basses, and their rigs, tune them, and be ready to handle any issue that comes up with them during the show (re-tuning, changing broken strings, swapping out instruments, etc.). The drum tech sets the drums up, changes whatever heads may need it, tunes, etc. You get the picture. Huge acts have guys who do nothing but move big boxes full of gear at set-up and tear-down.
Arrangers – They take a piece of music and adapt it to the instrumentation and abilities of a particular band. This may be with an original or a cover.
Sequencers – Some musicians, usually keyboard players, have a knack for doing very accurate re-creations of songs and making them available for use by bands who don’t have the necessary personnel to pull it off live. The sequence can be saved on computer or on a disk to be inserted into a keyboard for playback during the show. For exapmple, a three-piece band (bass, drums, and guitar) wants to play Brick House. The don’t have a horn section or keyboard, so they have that done on a sequence and just play along with it. Now, the use of actual studio tracks has become popular. They just mute the tracks of the instruments or vocals that are to be performed live.
Conversation: Jennifer Egan
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