Hi Tangmo,

I assume there could be many reasons for someone to withhold their name. Tax issues, legal contract issues with labels. Divorce issues...lol

I don't have any real experience with any of this internet "gig" work.

I read that $350 is sort of a "normal" price for a Nashville session vocalist. I have also been told that the price is higher in both LA and New York.

As far as drummers, guitar players, bass, and keyboard, it looks like somewhere $100 to $200 is the going rate. Who knows what it would cost to get a French Horn player. Matt may have some idea about that.

I have read on the internet that to make a demo in Nashville with a professional studio should cost somewhere in the ballpark of $500 to $1000. Cost sometimes exceed $1000, but not by very much.

Fiverr categorizes their sellers as Top Rated, Level 1, Level 2 and recommended. Top Rated are not always the most expensive.

There are dozens of singers advertising to do short clips for $10 to $20 dollars. I have had offers from pros to do a short clip of my material for free to see if I liked them.

At the end of the day, I assume one would need to spend some amount of money just to figure all this out.

What someone would charge may very well depend on how much they have spent on acquiring the skills they have. Getting a degree from Berklee School Of Music nowadays is somewhere around $200,000 dollars. That would take more than 1000 gigs at $300 to even come close to breaking even.

Cheers,

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”