What qualifications do you need to become a musician?
You’ll usually need:
- 2 or 3 A levels including music, or equivalent qualifications.
- grade 8 in your main instrument.
- to pass an audition.
- a degree in a relevant subject for postgraduate study.
Is musician a career?
Musicians perform, compose, conduct, arrange, and teach music. Musicians usually play either classical, popular (including rock and country), jazz, or folk music, but many musicians play several musical styles. Musicians, singers, and related workers hold approximately 249,000 jobs in the United States.
What’s the best way to become a musician?
If you want to write your own songs and play pop music, it’s usually best to pick up a guitar, bass guitar, piano, or learn to play the drum kit. While it’s great to take lessons, lots of pop and folk musicians are self-taught, using DIY books, YouTube videos, and good old-fashioned trial and error.
How to get started in the music industry as a musician?
A lot of intangibles may cloud the process of developing a music career, but persistence and dedication are key. Define your goals, make your plan, then start playing live. Setting these wheels in motion will set everything else off. You’ll learn how best to react to the unique opportunities they generate for you as a growing artist.
Do you have to be literate to be a musician?
Oddly, there is a debate about whether or not a musician should be literate. Music is an aural art and the process of learning any music involves hearing and imitating. There are successful musicians (mostly in popular styles) who never learned to read or write music.
Do you have to be serious to be a musician?
Many musicians think that to be a proper musician you must be serious, and that means squeezing all the joy out of it. Music should lift you, even on those difficult days. If it doesn’t do that you need to be asking yourself; why not? Being a musician can be a struggle but what keeps me going is playing music.