15% manager fee
10% lawyer fee
simple as that.
You want the couple of grand? Or do you want to sell burgers at McDonald's for a year and end up with a nice publishing check?
I want to sell burgers and wait to get my publishing check
Take me oh-so-important credit for track 7 on the 4th album of Artist X.
I rather have Hans Zimmer or Dr Luke take the spotlight and the "fame", take my "L" (as in LOLFBPN = Laughing Out Loud For Being Paid Nicely) and my check and go home and do the stuff that REALLY brings me money. LOL
What are you going to do, when your couple grand run out? I know what I'm going to with the money I will get from the sales of the single, the ringtones, the soundtrack sales (cause some of the tracks were used for movies), the money for when it gets used in a commercial or played on TV. Hmmm, yeah, luckily, I don't have to flip burgers, but if i was in that situation, I would do that or wash dishes, instead of thinking "I made it", because I got a couple grand that i will spend the same month...............and no follow-up business comes.
Listen to people like as20gp, because that's as REAL as it will get. He is REPORTING, he ain't selling you a dream or a "story of industry failure", because it's neither one of these. Just simple facts. Take the publishing, if you have to work in the meantime, because NO OTHER BUSINESS IS IN THE WORKS, then do that.
People like as20gp can use that time to find a day job, do their demo reels for games, ads or movies. Guess what? The CREDIT he got for some rap record is nice, but if you send out a demo reel AND you can say, you can do from Ambient thru Bossanova, Rock, Techno to Zimbabwean Folk, you gonna get work.
The moment "they" see you doing it for your EGO, instead of doing it because YOU LIKE THAT WORK AND YOU ARE GOOD and for your BANK ACCOUNT, you are f**ked.
Cause EGOs can be fed with bullshit and compliments and dreams of grandeur...........your stomach can only be fed with REAL food bought with a REAL currency. lol