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RE: Death By Tetris - The leather that never

in #music5 years ago

The Internet gave an opportunity to musicians, but in the end the revenue model is the same as before Internet; A few get most of the attention and earn the most of the money spend on music. Hence, the longest available business model is to be applied by most musicians: Performing.

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The tools have radically transformed too. Imagine the Beatles as teenagers when electric guitars and amps were just beginning to be manufactured at an affordable (somewhat) price. Compare with now, the multitude of software and hardware components we have at our fingertips including video editing and a huge library of clips to create audio and video. The discipline is still required but the amount of technology (including instruments as tech) and techniques to learn has exponentially increased. Add to that the business sense needed to make money from it, for example marketing techniques etc, it's a big big world and Artist have just recently been given incredible power-ups that we haven't fully mastered yet.