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  • Stop Selling Music

  • Career Changing Lessons for Musicians
  • By: Damian Keyes
  • Narrated by: Damian Keyes
  • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (41 ratings)

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Stop Selling Music

By: Damian Keyes
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A game changing approach for any musicians career.

Damian Keyes has written the ultimate guide for musicians to enhance and take control of their music careers! This audiobook is packed full of ideas, tips and stories, alongside a defining 30 Day Challenge, to help you reach your full potential.

Stop Selling Music: Career Changing Lessons For Musicians shows you how to build a career you are proud of with foundations that will last a lifetime, whether your goals are to make a living from session playing, songwriting, touring the world or selling out stadiums!

In this ground-breaking audiobook reflecting today's music industry, Keyes talks about thinking big but implementing the "1% percent strategies" allowing musicians to focus on a mindset and plan that achieves success, again and again. Damian employs his signature no nonsense approach, observations and analogies to teach you:

  • How to maximise your practising
  • How to rehearse like a pro
  • The art of performing
  • Life on tour
  • The do’s and don’t’s of your equipment
  • Setting yourself up to succeed
  • Marketing yourself to get noticed
  • Money and knowing your worth
  • How to self manage your career
  • Freedom to do what you want musically

As well as many life lessons, handy hints and a 30 day challenge Damian sets you to make sure you are ready to smash your music career!

©2019 Damian Keyes (P)2019 Damian Keyes
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Critic reviews

"Damian is quite simply the best music business teacher in the world!" (Jeff Arnos - CEO of Made Black Records)

"Damian has spent 20 years listening, teaching and employing musicians meaning he is in tune with them and what they need to do to win. He is the musician's whisperer" (David Baker - author of The Noise Breaker)

"Stop Selling Music by Damian Keyes will build many musicians careers!" (Scott Jones - EMusician magazine)

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this book is Amazing. has helped my @tryton3_music

A must read for all musicians . the book has helped my @tryton3_music grow so much. thank Damian.

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the fungus is no longer among us!

Just wanted to take a quick moment to say that this book was a great read for a full day of Amazon deliveries. As a musician that is currently making the transition into making videos full-time career I found that this book was very insightful and straightforward about go to plans and actions.

If you're a follower and or member of Damien's music business academy I still suggest giving this book a read as it can be the brutal truth you need to hear. it'll also teach you about what the hell I'm talking about in my title 🤣

thank you Damo !

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One Love & Namaste

- ShoPaRo

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Do yourself a favor and get this book!

Tons of valuable infornation in this book! I purchased the audio book and it was as and entertaining as watching Damien's youtube videos! I learned a lot, took a ton of notes, and will be making my band mates get this book.

Damien, I love what you're doing man, keep it up!

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Excellent information for aspiring musicians.

Damian not only provides quality advice but does so in an entertaining and inspiring fashion. I'd recommend this book to anyone who is serious about becoming a professional musician.

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knocked it out the ball park.

found Damian Keyes on youtube. hooked since day one. his experience and knowledge is obvious. Im on the 3rd listen and will probably go through it 10 to 15 xs so i can embody the body of knowledge provided.

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Excellent Advice by an Experienced Musician

I Highly recommend listening to this audiobook for anybody who's serious about their music career weather at the beginning, middle or in the later years. Mr Keyes shares his knowledge generously and backs it up with stories based on his life's adventures as a gigging musician
He also does a good job at delivering the audio narration. Im going to put some of hos advice into action for m

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BEST BOOK ON THE SUBJECT EVER BY FAR!

I have a huge library on this subject and peripheral subjects, made up of many great authors. This is the best, straight to the point with absolute stellar advice and direction on all the most important points of every aspect of being a serious working musician..not a single line wasted in the writing of it.

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THANK YOU….

I love this book! I have been watching YouTube videos by Damian Keyes . I was happy to come across his book, STOP SELLING MUSIC. It is a well written , informative book for musicians today. He is an inspiring musician and author. It’s my hope to follow his suggestions … in an effort to navigate my own journey as a singer/ songwriter. I strongly recommend this book! Thank you so much, Damian!

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Essential

What can I say this is a MUST also helped me out in other aspects of my creative side WORTH THE LISTEN & Time !

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this Book was a Big Game changer for me.

This book made me take a real hard look at my self as a Musician
(Get your self something called a career in the music industry it ant for the weak)
this book has all the tools to win in the music game
with effort and hard work and a willingness to open your self
to the new concepts that are outlined in the book and apply them with everyday Practice
you will win Step by step This is not a bull shit fly by night type of book
it shows in a concise and practical way on how to build your self in the new landscape of the music business of today
Thank you, Mr. Keyes, for showing me the way!
Qmaxx420 The Banddroidz

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