The music industry is an incredible place to make a name for yourself. It is full of unique individuals with creativity and vision. It can also be one of the most aggressive, fast-paced and competitive environments on earth. Every advantage that you can create for yourself brings you one step closer to making it in the business and one step closer than the hundreds, possibly thousands of other people trying to do the same thing. You’ll need a resource, a tool that will help you make your name in the industry with networking, but also by helping to teach our members the essentials of the business side of the music industry. Music lessons are the beginning of your creative journey, but Vampr Pro Academy is your training on how to make it in the industry and become successful!
Vampr Pro Academy is a step-by-step guide to everything one would need to know when stepping into the professional music arena. These could be definitions and expressions of slang and terminology that a music professional should be familiar with, or descriptions of certain jobs and technologies that music professionals will want to familiarize themselves with. The coursework is created by musicians for musicians, with the goal of bringing every user up to speed with the basics of the music industry. Everything is covered from legal issues about copyright of songs, to how royalties work, the practical economics of live music, all the way to what representation should do for an artist or a band and an awful lot of music business education in between.
Music Lessons And Life Lessons
We want musicians of all levels of experience and expertise to fully maximize every possible resource our social network provides. Musicians and adjacent musical creatives are the primary users of our platform as well as its greatest resource, and music is one of the greatest pleasures in life, no matter if you are making the music or only listening to it. That’s why it’s so important for artists to find a way not only to break into the industry but to explore their art and connect with each other. Vampr is committed to helping musicians navigate the business side of our world as well as the creative and collaborative. We created Pro Academy with a wide selection of lessons to benefit anyone working to make music a career, whether as a performer or as a supporting member of the artistic or production team. Pro Academy provides lessons that give you the tools you need to make it in the industry, teaching you skills that make you more prepared and ready to succeed.
The Pro Academy curriculum covers a vast range of subjects all relevant to specialized roles and issues in the industry while revealing a comprehensive picture of the environment it inhabits. For example, there is a module completely dedicated to representation, within which you will find lessons such as The Role of a Manager, or Management—Fee for Service. For anyone who aspires to follow in the footsteps of someone like David Geffen this module is probably the most important of all with each lesson mapping out know-how vital to managing artists and bands successfully.
If on the other hand you are the lead singer in a band that is approached by a potential manager or even a label interested in signing you, there are other modules and classes you’ll want to participate in such as Welcome to the Recording Industry Jungle, or The Art of Negotiation, or When to Use a Lawyer.
The 4 Pillars of the Recording Industry is an invaluable class where aspiring professional musicians can learn the most important things all successful artists know about the business side of the music industry. In neighboring lessons you’ll learn about licensing, recording, publishing and how to collect your money.
In the module Contracts and the Recorded Music Industry you’ll learn to decipher the basics of music contracts, getting a deal, and how to navigate recording agreements. This is the sort of information many artists wish they would have had before signing their first contract, it would have helped protect them from people and management taking advantage of them.
Every artist is unique and walks a path entirely their own, which is why a customizable curriculum is fundamental to career success. Different modules and classes might have more appeal to you individually, depending on what stage your career is at and what you’re interested in doing within the business. Our advice is to take the time to watch them all, perhaps more than once and allow the nurturing guidance and insight of professional musicians and industry creatives to instruct and strengthen your potential no matter what you wish to accomplish in the music realm.
Now that you have mastered your craft after taking music lessons, it’s time to conquer the music industry and flourish in your career! Knowledge is power and Vampr Pro Academy is a platform designed entirely to give our members indispensable knowledge and masterful instruction within all aspects and all levels of the music business.
After all, no one has ever thought to themselves, “Man, I would have been better off if I only didn’t know so much about the music industry before I got involved.”
Drake once used his acceptance speech at an award show to acknowledge just how grateful he was to have so many loyal fans. People, as he put it, spend their hard-earned money and hours of their precious free time at his shows. He seemed genuinely grateful, and truly honored to have so many people call themselves his fans. Every music artist needs fans. The more fans, the more successful an artist will be. After all, pop music is called pop because it is popular, easy to digest and catchy. Mainstream music is very different today with the likes of Lady Gaga and Drake than it was 70 years ago, with Frankie Valli and Elvis Presley, but they all have one thing in common–lots and lots of people that consider themselves fans. Enter detailed targeting expansion!
What Is Detailed Targeting Expansion?
Not all fans are created equal though. Some are rabid superfans, always trying to be the first to hear new music, buying every piece of merchandise they can get, and traveling long distances to see their favorite artists perform. What separates one superfan from another, at least in the eyes of an artist and their management, is the fan’s contribution to an artist’s success. This is the kind of power a fan can have, and while it’s always been important, social media and the internet have made this dynamic more relevant and applicable today than ever before.
Fan taking photo of concert at festival
Fans have always been able to create buzz. For instance, if a popular local hero, a quarterback for a state championship team happened to be an outspoken die hard Eagles fan in the mid 1970’s, he would have influenced lots of other kids in that hometown to listen to the Eagles, and that band would likely be considered cool throughout high school. This quarterback would be an influential fan. But in today’s world influencing people is done on such an immense scale that it’s literally become commercialized. A superfan today can either persuade millions of people that a certain artist is cool, or they can do the opposite and discredit their music. They can make or break a band.
Kylie Jenner is widely considered to be the internet’s most desirable influencer. For big companies and brands, she is the dream brand ambassador. What makes her so appealing? Why are smart business people so ready to pay for her positive tweets about their products? Trying to capture what makes Kylie such a strong influencer is like bottling a bolt of lightning. There is no easy formula to create such power of persuasion.
Despite how sweeping her influence in the fashion world may be, winning over music fans is not the same as convincing young people this or that brand of jeans is cool. In the music world, Kylie Jenner is not the personality with the most cache. Just as many if not more people could be turned off by something they learn she listens to, instead of making them want to be a fan. There is no one reason that she isn’t the definer of cool music the way she is of many other things.
How would an artist identify the right people in which to invest time and energy making into fans? On your first tour backed by a record company, who would you want to invite to your performance? Who would get all-access backstage passes if you were on the verge of making it big?
In today’s world the internet is where the most effective far-reaching influence spreads, so targeting social media users with massive amounts of followers is always a good start. The best fans to strive for might be different in various parts of the world. For instance, here in America the captain of your city’s soccer team is not likely to have the same type of fanatical influence that a Spanish League team captain has in Spain. Popular athletes can be valuable fans to cultivate due to their public visibility and the exposure you stand to gain from being in their orbit. They might record a video of your show from the VIP section, or they might play your music in a workout video. Their followers will watch their videos and hear your music, opening a door to new listeners who might never have heard of you otherwise.
Aside from athletes and public figures with massive amounts of followers, who else is an ideal fan? The obvious answer is anyone capable of influencing potential listeners, but is having a great quantity of fans always more important than having a quality of fan who might possess a certain refinement of taste? What is it about the opinion of a more discerning, authoritative listener that makes their influence carry more weight than that of a super-influencer?
This is like asking why Kylie Jenner is such a productive influencer in fashion, that it’s more of a feeling, an instinct that can’t be captured and replicated like a formula. Simply put, the ideal fan is anyone who is cool. And cool is always changing, and never the same today as it was yesterday. Cool has often been described as something that can only be obtained without pursuit. Coolness is what artists hope to project because it attracts other cool people to become fans. In our current crazy cycle of celebrity influence and viral fame, it’s still your “coolest” most discriminating fans who will attract the most passionate listeners to your music. These are the fans who will raise your cultural credibility and continue to champion your sound even as the superficial appeal and fleeting popularity, the “cool” of trendier artists seems to fade away.
Now that we’ve covered how important detailed targeting expansion is, join Vampr today to see how we can make your musical dreams come true!
There were days when the primary way you’d find band members was through printed homemade fliers you’d tape all over town on poles or bulletin boards. With the little hand-cut fringe of your phone number repeated along the bottom for people to tear off, as many of our successful members remember. Or maybe you’d put an ad in your local free paper or the indie music zines that collected in piles at the entrance of record stores or cafes. What if fliers and ads could magically appear only on the porch of just the precise person you’re looking for? Vampr is now your one stop shop for audio production services!
This is what happens when you find a tool that allows you to connect and collaborate with music peers and nurture these relationships, no matter where you live, how old you are or what kind of music you are into. You can find people. You can find your voice. You can fill in the gaps, enrich your knowledge and build your own production team. This is what happens when you put yourself and your music out there on Vampr.
Forget about blind dates on Vampr
There are websites where a music person could seek other similarly “tuned” music people, and sometimes those manage to work out, but often you’re sifting through an unknown quantity. These sites aren’t fully customized for the practical needs of a will-be or an already established music professional looking to collaborate and grow. You need better matches, better opportunities to find yourself and richer ground so you can grow.
There are no blind dates on Vampr. Your tastes, your aspirations, your talent and the skilled people you’re looking for are all methodically curated and laid out for you to swipe left or right on, much as you would using a dating app. Doesn’t a crucial match in the music world sound better than another potentially lame latte liaison that could leave you six bucks poorer and wanting that hour of your life back?
Whether you’ve been working at your craft for some time or just starting out, you can get serious about enhancing your talent and skills and building your own musical production team. You’ve made room to expand and cleared the way for those distant creative phantoms to come in and introduce themselves so you can get down to it. You don’t have to run around like a maniac as your fore-artists did before you, going out constantly to every sweaty crowded show, every club night, trying to make themselves heard over the deafening throb of the sound system and always having to be “on” in case this or that person turns out to be Important or Someone. That’s been a tougher proposition than ever considering the pandemic.
Find Talented Band Members Anywhere
You don’t have to live in a big expensive city with a famous music scene either. You don’t have to be in London or Tokyo or New York. You can work with other artists, learn from professionals in every role and make vital industry connections on Vampr without leaving anywhere you call home. Save your sweat for rehearsal, your tinnitus for after the gig that pays, and learn how to marshal your energies to manifest the sound you need to bring.
Your first step is to further your education, by immersing yourself in learning the industry. There are formal schools of coursework you could enroll in if you have that kind of cash. Or you could design your own education through reading and listening to everything you can in every area of performance and recording that interests you. You could be interacting right now with creative, talented specialists in every musical and production discipline and letting their experience and know-how inspire and guide you. A free Vampr account would be a strategic point of departure and your guide to audio production services.
Access Music Business Insiders
The music business can seem like an elaborate maze with too many directions, a swarming mosh pit of characters you can’t quite make out for the lights and the smoke machine and the mirror ball spots whirling around. Artists at every level can easily be overwhelmed or feel locked out, daunted by concerns over money or location, or a lack of relevant connections. This is the obstacle course Vampr was created to help you rise above.
You’re going to need some new people in your life, some very specific ones at that. Where else can you find a composer, a musician, a music arranger, a manager, a recording engineer, a remixer, or even a bona fide mentor, all without leaving the laptop on your coffee table? Where can you stay in one spot and reap solid recommendations and knowledge uniquely tailored to you in things like getting the right equipment, the computer or audio software you’ll need and how to configure your home recording studio? This is where professional audio production services come in!
Curate Your Community Digitally
The more you populate your Vampr account with your taste, talent, sound and vision, the more you engage with your virtual creative team, the closer you come to the music world you’ve hungered for. The more you “audition” other creators (easy as a swipe to the left or right), and let them audition you, the more individualized your environment and your experience becomes. The connections add up, as do the fans, and conceivably the gigs and recording contracts. With the right collaborations, the right industry contacts and the right people supporting you, your passion and your career could become one and the same.
With this platform’s rich array of online resources, you can plug into every aspect of music creation, refine your sound, record and be discovered. Profiles, samples, videos, articles, conversations, all for you to absorb and evaluate. The more you participate, the better you draw your map and develop your process. Lose that lack of experience. Gain exposure and support, networking and collaboration. Audition co-creators to help you make your music in real time, from anywhere. Listen and be heard. Find encouragement. Give your music the fuel to progress and the edge it needs to succeed. Meet outstanding creators and collaborators to help you polish your sound.
Wherever you are, Vampr can be your music academy, your talent agency, your sweaty crowded club of fans and your final stop in audio production services!
Are you ready to get ready to take center stage?