Stop Selling Music
Career Changing Lessons for Musicians
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Damian Keyes
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Damian Keyes
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A game changing approach for any musicians career.
Damian Keyes has written the ultimate guide for musicians to enhance and take control of their music careers! This audiobook is packed full of ideas, tips and stories, alongside a defining 30 Day Challenge, to help you reach your full potential.
Stop Selling Music: Career Changing Lessons For Musicians shows you how to build a career you are proud of with foundations that will last a lifetime, whether your goals are to make a living from session playing, songwriting, touring the world or selling out stadiums!
In this ground-breaking audiobook reflecting today's music industry, Keyes talks about thinking big but implementing the "1% percent strategies" allowing musicians to focus on a mindset and plan that achieves success, again and again. Damian employs his signature no nonsense approach, observations and analogies to teach you:
- How to maximise your practising
- How to rehearse like a pro
- The art of performing
- Life on tour
- The do’s and don’t’s of your equipment
- Setting yourself up to succeed
- Marketing yourself to get noticed
- Money and knowing your worth
- How to self manage your career
- Freedom to do what you want musically
As well as many life lessons, handy hints and a 30 day challenge Damian sets you to make sure you are ready to smash your music career!
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Critic reviews
"Damian is quite simply the best music business teacher in the world!" (Jeff Arnos - CEO of Made Black Records)
"Damian has spent 20 years listening, teaching and employing musicians meaning he is in tune with them and what they need to do to win. He is the musician's whisperer" (David Baker - author of The Noise Breaker)
"Stop Selling Music by Damian Keyes will build many musicians careers!" (Scott Jones - EMusician magazine)
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Make Noise brings all the wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking that any individual or business needs to make a successful podcast. He identifies core principles - such as create empathetically, i.e., think like the audience listens, and stay focused on what’s unique to you and what you have to say. He helps listeners come up with a “Ten Word Description” that will guide them throughout the creative process and then gets into how-tos - how to develop character, story, voice, and more.
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Al Schmitt on the Record
- The Magic Behind the Music
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Ever wonder what goes into the creation of some of the best music ever recorded? Ever wonder how someone becomes an iconic professional who is universally admired and respected? Al Schmitt on the Record: The Magic Behind the Music reveals answers to those questions and more. In this memoir of one of the most respected engineers of all time, you'll see how a very young boy - mentored by his uncle Harry in New York - progressed through the recording world in its infancy, under the mentorship of Tom Dowd, in its heyday, becoming one of the all-time great recording engineers.
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The best ever story about Recording Engineering
- By John Sands on 02-19-20
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In a career that has spanned four decades, choreographer Twyla Tharp has collaborated with great musicians, designers, thousands of dancers, and almost a hundred companies. She's experienced the thrill of shared achievement and has seen what happens when group efforts fizzle. Her professional life has been - and continues to be - one collaboration after another. In this practical sequel to her national best seller The Creative Habit, Tharp explains why collaboration is important to her - and can be for you.
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- By Anastasia Lattanand on 05-14-16
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My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
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The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to influence music today. With a foreword by David Foster.
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Maurice--Earth, Wind and Fire
- By Linda Ealey on 02-28-17
By: Maurice White, and others
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Sing to Me
- My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next
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Legendary music producer LA Reid - the man behind artists such as Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Kanye West, Rihanna, TLC, Outkast, Pink, Justin Bieber, and Usher - changed the music business forever. Now he tells his story, taking fans on an intimate tour of his life. Sing to Me is a fascinating journey from Reid's small-town R&B roots in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his work as a drummer to his fame as a Grammy Award-winning music producer and his gig as a judge on the hit reality show The X Factor.
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Wow!! What a journey!!!
- By Marty Cohn on 02-06-16
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The Never-Ending Present
- The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip
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- Narrated by: George Stroumboulopoulos
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From our talent-rich neighbor to the north comes this biography of one of the most successful Canadian rock bands, The Tragically Hip, which announced a year-long tour after sharing the news of lead singer Gord Downie’s inoperable cancer. Now available to US listeners, The Never-Ending Present details what led up to the memorable night when music fans all over the world watched Downie’s heroic final performance.
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Hometown Heroes
- By Tommy Garou on 12-13-18
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Anger Is an Energy
- My Life Uncensored
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John Lydon is an icon - one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last 40 years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, the world's most notorious band. The Pistols shot to fame in the mid-1970s with songs such as "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen". So incendiary was their impact at the time that in their native England, the Houses of Parliament questioned whether they violated the Traitors and Treasons Act.
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I Just Can't
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One Way Out
- The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
- By: Alan Paul
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
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One Way Out is the powerful biography of the Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth look at a legendary American rock band that has meant so much to so many for so long. For 25 years, Alan Paul has covered the Allman Brothers Band, conducting hundreds of interviews, riding the buses with them, attending rehearsals and countless shows.
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From a non-fan
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Write Songs Right Now
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Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs - an approach that been road-tested by thousands of Alex's students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for ideas, crafting effective lyrics, and putting those lyrics to music.
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Kind of old wine in new skins, still good for that
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Let’s Go Crazy
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Purple Rain is a song, an album, and a film - each one a commercial success and cultural milestone. How did this semiautobiographical musical masterpiece that blurred R&B, pop, dance, and rock sounds come to alter the recording landscape and become an enduring touchstone for successive generations of fans?
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A Must-Read For Any PRINCE Fan
- By Bryan K. Chavez on 05-06-16
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Chairman at the Board
- Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation
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With over 125 gold and platinum records, and two Grammys for Steely Dan's Aja and Gaucho, Schnee has been called a living legend - recognized and respected in the industry as the consummate music man with an incomparable career that he lovingly shares with listeners in humorous detail.
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Worst narration ever!
- By Anonymous User on 01-26-23
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The Perfect Day to Boss Up
- A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire
- By: Rick Ross, Neil Martinez-Belkin - contributor
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
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Rick Ross is a hip-hop icon and a towering figure in the business world, but his path to success was not always easy. Despite adversity and setbacks, Ross held tight to his vision and never settled for anything less than greatness. Now, for the first time, he shares his secrets to success, offering his own life as a road map to listeners looking to build their own empire.
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Boss Up
- By Daniel R. on 10-02-22
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The Dream Chaser
- If You Don't Build Your Dream, Someone Will Hire You to Help Build Theirs
- By: Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
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Does your daily effort at work build your dream, or someone else's? Do you do your job for the paycheck or the fulfillment? It's possible to have both, and this book shows you how to get there. The key is in following your passion and purpose. You have a natural-born talent - whether you know it or not - that can make the world a better place. You have a unique story and vision that can lead you to the life you love.
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Author says he wrote it in a week. I believe him.
- By Scott on 03-06-23
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- Live4bikes
- 10-29-19
this book is Amazing. has helped my @tryton3_music
A must read for all musicians . the book has helped my @tryton3_music grow so much. thank Damian.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-05-21
the fungus is no longer among us!
Just wanted to take a quick moment to say that this book was a great read for a full day of Amazon deliveries. As a musician that is currently making the transition into making videos full-time career I found that this book was very insightful and straightforward about go to plans and actions.
If you're a follower and or member of Damien's music business academy I still suggest giving this book a read as it can be the brutal truth you need to hear. it'll also teach you about what the hell I'm talking about in my title 🤣
thank you Damo !
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- ShoPaRo
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- Paul Lambert
- 12-09-19
Do yourself a favor and get this book!
Tons of valuable infornation in this book! I purchased the audio book and it was as and entertaining as watching Damien's youtube videos! I learned a lot, took a ton of notes, and will be making my band mates get this book.
Damien, I love what you're doing man, keep it up!
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- Cliff
- 07-21-21
Excellent information for aspiring musicians.
Damian not only provides quality advice but does so in an entertaining and inspiring fashion. I'd recommend this book to anyone who is serious about becoming a professional musician.
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- Xavier Corena
- 07-29-20
knocked it out the ball park.
found Damian Keyes on youtube. hooked since day one. his experience and knowledge is obvious. Im on the 3rd listen and will probably go through it 10 to 15 xs so i can embody the body of knowledge provided.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-12-22
Excellent Advice by an Experienced Musician
I Highly recommend listening to this audiobook for anybody who's serious about their music career weather at the beginning, middle or in the later years. Mr Keyes shares his knowledge generously and backs it up with stories based on his life's adventures as a gigging musician
He also does a good job at delivering the audio narration. Im going to put some of hos advice into action for m
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- Jason
- 04-28-24
BEST BOOK ON THE SUBJECT EVER BY FAR!
I have a huge library on this subject and peripheral subjects, made up of many great authors. This is the best, straight to the point with absolute stellar advice and direction on all the most important points of every aspect of being a serious working musician..not a single line wasted in the writing of it.
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- Patty
- 09-27-21
THANK YOU….
I love this book! I have been watching YouTube videos by Damian Keyes . I was happy to come across his book, STOP SELLING MUSIC. It is a well written , informative book for musicians today. He is an inspiring musician and author. It’s my hope to follow his suggestions … in an effort to navigate my own journey as a singer/ songwriter. I strongly recommend this book! Thank you so much, Damian!
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- Brandy v.
- 03-02-21
Essential
What can I say this is a MUST also helped me out in other aspects of my creative side WORTH THE LISTEN & Time !
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- mark
- 07-30-20
this Book was a Big Game changer for me.
This book made me take a real hard look at my self as a Musician
(Get your self something called a career in the music industry it ant for the weak)
this book has all the tools to win in the music game
with effort and hard work and a willingness to open your self
to the new concepts that are outlined in the book and apply them with everyday Practice
you will win Step by step This is not a bull shit fly by night type of book
it shows in a concise and practical way on how to build your self in the new landscape of the music business of today
Thank you, Mr. Keyes, for showing me the way!
Qmaxx420 The Banddroidz
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