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With the music industry being such a competitive industry the hopes of many budding musicians are often dashed before their records are made, never mind being sold in shops and played on the radio. With the digital age, people can make their own music easily and of course distribute with more ease. Does this mean that the market is easier to break? Probably not, as this process is available to all making it still a fiercely competitive market.

What does a musician then do if making records cannot provide a sustained income? One way that many make a living is to provide educational experiences for others. This may be in music lesson taking the form of private tuition.  This is  how many learn to play instruments as apposed to people teaching themselves.

For many one answer is to provide workshops for schools. The artists visit schools and provide an insight into their particular field. There are already many workshops that offer drumming experiences. In these sessions all participants get a bongo style drum and together with the direction of the musician different beats and rifts are played out. Alternative workshops may consist of laying down a track in a studio. Such workshops can be provided with such a diverse range of instruments and skills such as composing to turntable mixing. This field of work is of course reasonably dependant on an ability to teach the skills you have to others, but certainly one where an income can be sustained.

Jerry Miller is an American musician who has accomplished a great deal since his birth in 1943. As well as being an extremely accomplished guitarist, he sings and has written many songs. Some of these tracks have been for his own solo career, others for either The Jerry Miller Band or Moby Grape which is a band founded in San Francisco the 1960s. Jerry Miller was the lead guitarist, although it was not uncommon for the two other guitarists to also step up and take the lead.

The Jerry Miller band is still very active today with Jerry at the helm, Darin Williams on drums, Kim Workman on Bass and Tom Murphy. There have been many different accomplished musicians that have played with the band over the years.

Through his career Jerry Miller has played with some of the worlds musical great including Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, to name a few. Clapton had said that Miller was the best guitar player in the world. A lifetime of musical memorabilia that belonged to Miller was lost when his house was flooded, this included recordings with Hendrix and also some with Robert plant from the great Led Zeppelin.