How To Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician

Published 2023 · 656 pages · 180,400 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Nonfiction, Self-Help

How hard is How To Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician to read?

How To Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician scores 23 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 28 out of 100
Herstand writes a practical guide for working musicians in plain, direct language. Industry terms appear as part of the craft, but the register stays close to Atomic Habits and far from literary prose.
Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
A how-to manual for independent artists favours clear, instructional sentences over elaborate constructions. The sentences are closer to the accessible contemporary prose of Atomic Habits than to anything dense.
Abstraction: 25 out of 100
The book deals in concrete tactics for building a following and earning income as a musician. It stays on practical steps and examples, much like Atomic Habits.
Information density: 55 out of 100
At 656 pages and about 180,000 words, the third edition packs in a great deal of practical material for musicians. Readers get many separate topics to absorb, though each is presented plainly, so density sits a little above Atomic Habits.

How How To Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician is regarded

How To Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician holds a literary regard score of 28 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.