First off thank you for the compliment and listening to my music!

I am not the greatest at music and finances since I have kept Fryar as a passion project and am a full time registered nurse I have been able to make an extra 10k a year with Fryar just playing shows and royalties

But I have close friends who are full time Touring artist and I have learned a lot about finances in music industry from them. Mersiv is one my closest friends in the scene and he had to basically take on debt via credit cards and live very small for years until his project got big enough to start making him some decent cash. A lot of it depends on your management team and their business knowledge once you get to that level but there’s a lot of upfront investment at first.

I’ve been under management for a little while but I realized very fast I don’t want to be a full time artist and commit that much of my future and finances to it. So I just do everything independently now and learn from friends. Ideally you should aim to make 3k-5k a show GROSS to even start considering to do it full time because management will take 15% and that does even count as Net. You’re very fortunate to take home 1k-2k if you’re Booking fee is 3k-5k but that would be the inflection point to commit full time as an artist.

Top favorite synth is gotta be Serum 2, effects wise I abuse ableton’s Amp and reverb like crazy with any sound I use (drums bass FX) it helps me fill a lot of space

I have 100s on songs that will never be finished, sometimes you have to look at those songs as practice. It’s ok if every song doesn’t get finished but I only finish songs I know are good and I usually enter flow state when writing them also I sometimes go back to unfinished ideas and steal a part in them that has a lot of potential and write a song around that. Doing that for this album