Music Career Project

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Checklist to Complete Assignment
Read the article
Complete From the Source Section #1
Complete In Your Own Words Section #2
Complete Your Final Job Description Section #3
Complete Best Fact to Share Section #4
Complete Think About It Section #5
Complete the Career Jump Activity Section #6
Is my work neat, in complete sentences, and each
section is completed.

Period: ( example: 6A5)

Music Career Jump Grading

_____Individual Participation During Project
3 on task, involved all the time
2 on task, involved most of the time
1 off task, wasting time, teacher reminders to
work needed/not on task, ignores teacher
reminders

_____Completed Project
3 all tasks complete, in detail, neat, and
thoughtful
2 all tasks complete, satisfactory answers, and
legible, most tasks complete, answers are brief
and not detailed, work is sloppy
1 few tasks complete, answers are incomplete,
and little effort is shown

his information based on the information on the M

usic Careers Website. Dont use other sources!

#1 From the Source

#2 In Your Own Words

Job Title: DANCE / COVER BAND

Job Title: DANCE / COVER BAND

Career Overview: Performs covers of

Career Overview: Performs dances and
popular songs so the audience can dance music in front of people to entertain
and have a good time at clubs, bars,
people in many different places.
casinos, lounges, and schools.
About this Music Career (Career
Description)

About this Music Career ( Career

Description)

1. The job duties of a Dance / Cover Band

include learning music, rehearsing,
scheduling, performance.

1. Recording dances, learning songs and

performing in front of many people.

2. He works with the groups from the ground

floor up, helping them do everything from
conceptualize to book, which includes
finding the right Singer, organizing and
casting the show, creating the set list,
producing the tracks, rehearsing them and
bringing them to stage.

2. Teaches backup dancers, dances to

perform with him/her.

3. Cover Bands work with Personal

Managers, Show Producers, and B
ooking
Agents, among others.

3.Cover Bands work many different people

including with Personal Managers, Show
Producers, and Booking Agents, among
others.

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4.
5.
Salary

Salary

1. The Average Annual Salary- $200-$300

per person, per show

1. $200-$300 per person, per show

2. The Career Salary Range- $50 to $1,000+ 2.$50 to $1,000+ per person, per show
per person, per show
Employment

Employment

1.An aspiring Cover Band member can

either put together a band on their own or
audition for a role in a production.

1. Cover Band members can make up their

own dances or have others choreograph it
for them for their audition.

2. To find talent, he simply goes to shows or

asks around, so taking an active role in your
local music community is essential to
launching a career.

2. He/She asks people from other shows to

ask them if they want to take a role in one of
their shows.

Advancement

Advancement

1.Advancement for a Cover Band usually

1.If the show gets a large crowd then that is
comes through drawing bigger crowds and
better for the company.
getting booked at more prestigious venues,
both of which can result in higher income per
gig.

Education and Training

Education and Training

1.A music college degree isnt essential to

be in a Cover Band, but a high level of
musical and performance skills are required.

1. To be in Cover Band you have to have

performing skills experiences.

2. Apart from basic musicianship, the ability

2. It's very important to have the ability to
to play different genres of music is important, use a variety of other types of songs not just
as it means youre giving yourself more
one type.
opportunities for work. Professionalism is
key, too.
Experience, Skills, and Personality

Experience, Skills, and Personality

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1. Performance experience will help a Cover
Band create a compelling live show,
although this can, of course, be learned on
the job.

1.To be able to be on the Cover Band you

have to have some evperience and skills to
be a dancer. But always more can be
learned on the show.

2.Tanzer says the main skills required are

whether a potential Cover Band member
can fit the mold of what were trying to
achieve, can they pull it off without looking
like theyre sweating.

2. There are many of the main skills skills

required to be a performing dancer.You
should be able to pull it off without looking
like theyre sweating.

Unions and Associations

Unions and Associations

1.There are no professional organizations for 1.There are no professional organizations for
Cover Bands.
Cover Bands.
2. If one of my acts is learning a Beyonce
tune, before I can produce it, they study it
and learn it. About twenty to thirty percent
buy the tune, the rest go on YouTube and
study it there.

2. A lot of work gets put into the dances.

Suggestions for Getting Started

Suggestions for Getting Started

1.Study your instrument well enough to play

any style of music. If you cant play jazz
youre probably not going to be all that
utilitarian. Is there a lot of jazz work in
Vegas? No, but the majority of people I
employ can play anything. Rock, country,
blues, jazz, dance: the basic genres.

1. You have to be able to play different tunes

including, rock, country, blues jazz. And for
dance: the basic genres.

2.You should be seasoned enough to

2. You have to have experience to be one of
understand how to deal with on the fly
the dancers.
circumstances. What that means is Ill get
people fresh out of college, theyre incredible
players, but they dont have the first clue
what modern music is.

#3 Your Final Job Description: Convince someone this is the best job in the music

industry! Write in complete thoughts and sentences IYOW). When you read this out loud, it
should be about 30 seconds.
I think that being a cover band/ dancer is one of the bests music performance jobs out there!
There are many reasons why I think this. The first reason is that, it's a very fun job to do.

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You can dance and perform in front of big crowds! The second reason, is that you don't even
have to have that much experience to be one of the directors. Most of the skills can just be
taught to you there. But if you want to be a dancer than you have to have some experience.
Another reason is that you make around $250 per person per show!! You might not think
that that is a lot but if you think about it there might be around a couple hundred people
per show and think about how many shows you would perform in. That is why I think that
this is an Awesome job to do.

#4 Best Fact to Share: Write one sentence summarizing and highlighting the best part

about this job.

The best part of this job is that you get to m
eet famous singers and be in their new show or
album!

#5 Think About It
-List 3 school subjects that would be useful to know to perform this job.
1. Music
2. Math
3. Dance
-Would this job be a good fit for you? Why or why not? Support your opinion in complete
sentences.
Yes I think that this would be a good job for me. I think this because I am very flexible, I love
to dance and I also love to listen to music. I always like to make up dances or routines in my
room so I really think that this is a good fit job for me.

(THIS SECTION IS AN IN-CLASS ACTIVITY! DO NOT DO ANYTHING WITH THIS YET!)

#6 Career Jump Activity: Quickly write down the job title and one interesting thing
about each job as you rotate through the career jump.
1. Jamie - Singer- Travel all around the world and sing at huge concerts.
2. Garven - Sound Technician- Play around with sounds
3. Anna - Booking Agent- Make up to $1,000,000.
4. Kyle - Song Writer- Write songs.
5. Leah- Music Journalist- They take photos and write articles about famous people.
6. Reese- Record Producer- Work with amazing people to make musicians records.
7. Katie- Music Photographer- Take pictures at concerts.
8. Dax- Rock Star- Perform Music.
9. Andrew- Nightclub manager- getting paid money while having fun.
10. Adam- Tour Bus Driver- Meet famous people
11. Rachael- Lyricist- Make demos
12. Carlee-Choreographer- Dance with famous people.
13. Owen- Writing Technicon- Make lights.

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Daniel F - Business manager- Get to be with famous people.

Joseph- Night time DJ- Play songs
Ben- Video Game producer-make music for video games
Daniel- Marketing coordinator- Selling songs
Annabelle- Personal Manager- Get to work with many people

Best Job:

Singer

Worst Job: Tour Bus Driver