Steps on How to Become a Studio Musician

It is ideal for musicians who enjoy working with different performers and on different genres to become a studio musician or sometimes called a session player. Being a studio musician requires you to have a lot of skill, hard work, and luck for you to be successful. You just have to be determined and must have the necessary skills in playing music in any situation because who knows, being a studio musician is the start of your rewarding music career. For you to begin your journey to a successful music career, we first listed down some steps on how to become a studio musician.

One could become a successful studio musician by means of referrals or if someone has heard you played a song. Below are tips on how to become a studio musician that you can consider doing:
•    Learn more about your craft. If you can afford to go to school then you do it. It is not the degree that will get you jobs but the knowledge and ability you will learn from a music school. You need to learn the needed skills that a studio musician must have in any ways you learn best. The skills included are the ability to sight-read music, compose, improvise, and play different kinds of instruments.
•    Go to recording studios and try to talk to the producers and engineers. Give them a demo CD that shows your expertise on a variety of musical instruments. Use different musical styles that showcase your diversity.
•    Play anywhere and as often as you possibly can. You need to build a name for yourself while keeping your skills sharp by playing with other local bands, filling in for a musician, as well as networking on the music scene.
•    Make a portfolio and always keep it updated with every gig you played at. May it be a live performance or just a studio recording job, you still have to keep a record of it.
•    You may consider moving to any major music city like Los Angeles, New York, Nashville or to the closest major city to you. The idea of moving can be a big deal but you really must go to where the jobs are. In case, there is no studio in the place where you live, you only have very little chances of getting some work.

Learning how to become a studio musician is really not a hard thing to do most especially if that’s what you always wanted to do. Like in every job, you can only be successful if you give all your best and persevere no matter what.