The Music Business Program provides hands-on training for a business career in the music industry. Learn career skills including Marketing and Promotion, Music Publishing, Music Contracts, A&R, and Personal Management from an insider’s perspective. Gain practical experience through your guaranteed internship, bring a real, live independent artist to market, and learn how to run your own record label. Whether your goal is to land a job in the industry or to manage your own creative career, MBP prepares you to handle the challenges of a highly competitive business with confidence.
Music Business program options include:
Music Business Certificate (two quarters, 30 credit units)
Intensive training preparing you to enter the business side of the contemporary recording industry..
Associate of Arts – Combined Emphasis (six quarters, 90 credit units)
Combines the 30-unit Music Business curriculum with 60 units of performance-based instrument training on bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion, or voice (see Programs>By Degree>Associate of Arts for more information).
Bachelor of Music in Performance, Minor in Music Industry Studies (13 quarters, 192 credit units)
A comprehensive performance degree in bass, guitar, keyboard, percussion or voice plus 30 units of intensive studies in the contemporary music industry (see Programs>By Degree>Bachelor of Music for more information)
All programs include:
Learning from Industry Professionals
Instructors who are also industry veterans bring first-hand knowledge of all aspects of the music business from A&R and promotion to contracts, distribution, publishing, and management directly to the classroom.
Guaranteed Internships
Every MBP student is placed in a music industry internship position. Learn the ropes, make connections and see the business from an insider’s perspective.
Record Companies: Learn How They Work, Start Your Own
Learn the complete record company business cycle from A&R and duplication to promotion and distribution as you bring an actual independent artist to market.
Networking
A large part of music business success comes from your network – who you know and who knows you. There’s no better place to build lifelong connections than within MI’s community of music professionals in the heart of the international music capital.
Classes
Classes provide a comprehensive inside look at the music industry, taught by the professionals themselves. A sample of MBP courses includes:
The Record Company
Marketing and Promotion
Music Publishing
Networking in the Music Business
Music Contracts
A&R
Personal Management
Getting Gigs
Start and Run Your Own Record Label
Independent Artist Marketing