Meet Your Mentor

No matter how many advice blogs you read, you may still be falling short on the guidance necessary to pushing your career forward. Chances are, you’ve already picked up a few tidbits from other musicians but you may have found them contradictory or get the impression that the source itself is unreliable (i.e., someone who has been at it for 30 years and experienced no success whatsoever). While you should continue to be open to any advice that anyone thinks you might need, it is a good idea to pick one carefully chosen musician and treat their ideas, and their perspective as objective truth. It can be someone you look up to who out ranks you in the local scene, or just a friend (who also out ranks you in the local scene). If you want to be more like them, they are the best person to tell you how.

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