How to Make a Living as a Gigging Musician

Many musicians aspire to pursue their love of music by attempting to find some sort of job in the "music industry". However, many times they end up doing something related to music but not actually involving live playing. In reality that is what they really want to do, but live performing has the reputation of not being the most lucrative career path in the world.

I had that same mindset before as well. I didn't think that I could actually make a living through gigging with my band. Therefor...