Breaking Into Hollywood – Who Should I Pay To Get Paid?
home). In this modern day of Cakewalk and ProTools, you should be able to find a very talented arranger with a home studio to lay your tracks down with you, and many of them need vocalists for their cuts, so do your homework and partner up. But when it’s time for a demo, you want a professional environment, and not all composer/arrangers are producers. A real audio booth, a mixer who really gets the boards and knows how to make the vocals shine and a producer who has a trained ear for your genre (and for pitch!)…that’s invaluable. Pay for it! That money isn’t just buying you experience, it’s buying you a guaranteed session (free connections love to flake) and, once again, industry contacts if you show them you’re as good as you believe you are. You SHOULD NOT PAY for people to shop your deal; they are going to get a management commission for that, usually 15% of your
