I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Today we're going to tell you how to make money playing jazz.

This is a fictional episode of, you know.

Exactly.

And episode finished.

No, I mean, all jokes aside, because that's the only jokes we have on this pretty much anyway.

You know, we're going to get a little bit tactical.

We're going to go into the business weeds a little bit.

I mean, we've given you guys enough musical and tourist information.

Let's get to the nitty gritty. Yeah, this one could be subtitled How to Get Your Hustle On. Right, right. I like that. How to get your hustle on. Okay, the first thing key to this, it should be simple and easy for you to know. And I shouldn't have to say it, but I feel like I do need to say it. That is to learn how to play well, okay? Number one. That's number one. So I know you might think that getting a

great business card or a great website or a great agent is the most important thing to make money

playing jazz, but it turns out, unlike a lot of things in the world, how you actually function as a jazz musician has something to do with how much money you can make in doing it.

I don't know, man. My business card game is on point. How many grams? What kind of paper? 3.2. I don't know. I don't know know but it's a little egg shell is that a thing

eggshell sure yeah so I mean you know whenever you're thinking of course we need to spend time on the

business side and on the business tip but if you're not spending most of your time actively

improving as a player and as a jazz musician and all the things that you need to do

if a majority of your time is not spent on that part of the craft you're going to really have

trouble making a living at this music now it's a very competitive world because it's such a

beautiful and wonderful art form and there's so many people that want to be a part of it, that even if you

spend a lot of time and you get really good, you still might not be able to do it. It's like, I love playing basketball. I spend a lot of time, you know, honing my craft of basketball, but I'm yet to make a penny at it. I don't know why. I keep missing the draft or something. I don't think I get my application in on time. Have you tried hard enough?

I don't think I've tried hard.

But I mean, so no guarantees

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