Question: Is there any specific action that a band can take to guarantee a successful career in music, or is the process based on a combination of effort and luck?

Tom Hess's Answer: Nothing in this world is guaranteed. More importantly, success in the music business is never a result of any "single" action. If it were this easy, there would be many more successful professional musicians (and bands) in the world today.

That being said, the single best action a musician (or a band) can take to dramatically increase their chances of success in this industry is to seek out a mentor to train them on what it takes to make it as a professional musician. This one action will have a dramatic (and positive) impact on "the amount of luck" you will have in your music career.

Getting music career mentoring will do 2 main things for you:

1. You learn exactly what to do and what not to do in order to become a successful professional musician. This means that you will get greater results from every action you take in the music industry.

2. You will become "more lucky", because by learning how the industry works you be more prepared to capitalize on various music career opportunities that you come across (in ways you could have never guessed before). The harder and smarter you work on your own music career, the more luck will come your way.

So in some ways the answer to your question is that it does take a combination of effort and luck to build a successful career in music. HOWEVER, you can learn to be in direct control of making your music career efforts bring much greater results in a lot less time. Likewise, you can also manipulate and direct luck to work in your favor. If you want to learn to be in control of these things, read this music career page now and find out how to make it in the music industry.

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