Seventeen years back, when I remaining faculty in Minnesota one science credit shy of a new music small business diploma, I assumed I understood specifically what to do to come to be a specialist musician. It was 2005, the industry experienced just been turned upside down by Napster and iTunes, and whilst my research at this (now defunct) songs university ended up wonderful, I experienced been taught the historical past of the music enterprise, and I shortly recognized that almost nothing I was taught was essentially appropriate as a doing work singer-songwriter in the new music market.  Back then, I considered that the only way to have a effective occupation…