Music Press Kit Supplies

Series Summary

As a musician traveling is simply part of the job. We must be able to travel in order to support ourselves and play to new people and crowds all the time so that we build up a fan base. The problem arises when we begin to think about all the expensive equipment we have to lug around every time we travel. Whether it’s by boat, train, plane or car we need to be able to get our instruments to the next venue safely so that we can use it at the next show. This has always been a serious issue for the likes of touring musicians everywhere. The protection of their assets, their livelihoods, their gear. If you are a professional traveling musician or just like taking your guitar with you when you travel this is a fantastic series that will give you great tips that could easily save the life of your instrument. It covers tips on traveling by train, plane and car and offers advice for several different instruments including drums, guitar and keyboards. Take our advice and live by these tips when you’re traveling. It could mean the difference between playing and not!

Video Transcript

"Now, let's talk about something that all artists absolutely love to do and that is to make things that don't feel like making art, the press kit. Right? You want to show yourself to a record label, to somebody who wants to book you for an engagement for a gig, whatever. All that kind of stuff. They need to find out who you are and they need to find out in a way that's actually interesting to them. So, you want to make something that is professional, that comes across like you actually have done this before because people don't want to hire people that haven't done it before. You want to make it interesting and you want to make it do things that they weren't expecting. Put little stuff in there that they weren't expecting to get. So, you can see all the elements that I have in there. I've got my press photo. I've got, this is actually the cover for my folder on here. I've got my folder, black, glossy folder, it looks nice. You can choose your own color, just make sure it looks nice. Maybe white, I don't know. And then I've got all this information. This is actually a press release and I've got different elements of my bio that I'm going to get into. I've got these little CD, DVD holders and these will come really handy in later. And, if you don't have a released CD yet, then you make sure you have a sticker to put on a blank CD and then you also have a little sticker stamper type of thing. You got your tape, you got your scissors. You should be all set."