What can you do with a bachelors degree in music?

How much money can i make with a bachelors of music degree?

• My goal is to be a music producer but i really dont have the money to go to a arts shool now. my mom says i should study something else beside music if it dosent take off that fast. ...show more

• Answer:

  Music is not something that depends on a degree to get a job. Nobody working for a major record label, for example, wants to see your degree. They don't care about your qualifications, all they care about is the sound of the music you make, because your music is your qualification, not a piece of paper. You can have all the degrees in the world, but if your music is crappy, you arent going to be able to sell it to anybody or produce for anybody. When somebody listens to music, they are listening to your music, your talent, they arent listening to your degree. Let's say a record label is hiring for an in-house producer to produce for their artists. Let's say you have a degree, and I don't, and we both walk in there to show them our music. If my music is better than yours, I'm going to get the job, regardless of your degree. If you want to get a degree and take the safe path in life for a career and live the college life, then become a doctor or lawyer. Music production is for everybody, not just college people. 90% of music producers did not go to college. Just like basketball players, artists, etc. Those are all jobs based on talent, not credentials. I teach people how to produce music on youtube as a hobby. I went to Foothill College for Music Business 101 and Pro Tools 101. It was the first school in the country to offer a course on Pro Tools. My certification has nothing to do with the money I make, I just took the courses to learn a few things, but there will never be a point in my life where a record label will ask to see my certificates or ask where I graduated from. That's now how the music industry works. It's based on talent, just like acting. If you go to school, do it for the knowledge, not for the degree. Degree means nothing in the music world. You think Dr. Dre or Scott Storch have degrees? lol You want to be a music producer? Then get yourself some books or learn how to use programs like Pro Tools, and FL Studio online. Pro Tools is best for recording, it will run you about $2500 for a basic digi 002 console. FL Studio is much cheaper and is best for digital producing. If you are recording live music, like a live band, then pro tools is more efficient. Many people like myself use Pro Tools just for recording vocals, and use programs/hardware like FL Studio, MPC, Nuendo etc. for producing music. Once you learn how to produce music, you can learn mixing and mastering, or just pay others to do it, which is what most producers do. It will typically run you about $100 to $700 per song, depending on the company and how professional they are. Once you have your productions ready, your portfolio of talent to show off, then you figure out how to market it to grab the music industry's attention. There's a million and one ways to market music on the internet, so be creative, and if you have what it takes, it should take off eventually and someone will take notice and hire you for your services. Thats how it works. How much money you make at producing depends on you. There's people who produce for major films, people who produce for pop music, people who produce for commercials etc. It's not a salary job, so you don't have a set income. How much you make depends on how good you are, and how well you market yourself, and the skys the limit. Some producers make $100 a year, some make millions. Who knows, depends on you. But you typically get paid per project, per song, not per year. It's not an hourly job or a salary job, it's a commission job.