Want to gain experience before I start my label

[JMD_Music]

I have been wanting to try and get back into producing but I found it impossible when I tried to; and I recently sold my midi keyboard. Really wanted to become a producer, have my stuff licensed for all kinds of projects (tv shows, smalls films, etc) and use that money to start the label instead of taking out a loan. Then use my beats for my artists and do the engineering myself.

[DJCosmicRift]

I really wanted to gain some experience in the music business. I live in NJ in a small town and there’s really not much talent near me. I live at home, go to school online, and don’t have a job so I have a lot of free time I really want to use in order to gain some valuable experience in the music business. I was wondering if there were some things I’d be able to do from home. I want to be able to build some sort of relationships with important people. Just curious if you guys knew of some stuff I could do from my bedroom. Like managing a producer/songwriter. Shopping their music to different A&R's, stuff like that.

I would find an independent record label that you could get in contact with. Convince them to let you do grunt work, and buddy up to the A&R department. I remixed for a record label, and became VERY well acquainted with the staff. I received countless hours of free music consultation from this, and I learned the ins-and-outs including the resources used to be successful in the industry.

I would offer to help, but you left a very vague idea of what you're actually wanting to step into. If you're not an artist like myself it might be considerably harder to use the information I could lend you.

Do some searching on the net.

Brian