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Folks should not overlook a career in music using BIAB to fulfill supplying tracks to customers. Supplying tracks is quite a robust industry and BIAB is well-suited and equipped to be a workhorse for an entrepreneur trying to make it in the music industry.

There are three situations BIAB works extremely well for the home recording enthusiast customer.

1. Making tracks for an instrument an artist can't play.
2. Tracks for an instrument the artist can play but BIAB can play the instrument more commercially or competently.
3. Tracks for an instrument the artist can play competently but it's inconvenient to do so in some circumstances.

BIAB can perform for a person trying to make music a career in all three of the above situations by filling any of the three circumstances the client has encountered. The person trying to make a career in supplying tracks for customers need only to be competent in arranging and programming using the BIAB product. The person need not be a proficient musician, read notation, play multiple instruments or know how to chart tracks. BIAB fulfills those tasks.

With that in mind, I asked the following question to Chatgpt for general information about:


Charlie Asked: How much would I need to gross to earn a net of $3,000 per month?


ChatGPT said:
To determine how much you need to gross in order to take home $3,000 per month net, we need to consider your effective tax rate—which depends on your location, income bracket, and any deductions or withholdings (like federal, state, Social Security, and Medicare taxes in the U.S.).

Here’s a general approach:

Step-by-step Estimate (U.S. Based):
Let’s assume an effective tax rate of about 25%, which is a common average for middle-income earners in the U.S.

✅ You would need to gross approximately $4,000/month (or $48,000/year) to net $3,000/month with a 25% effective tax rate.
Want a More Accurate Estimate?



Charlie Asked:
are there online studios that provide commercial tracks home recording enthusiasts can purchase for their original songs?


ChatGPT replied:
Yes, there are several online studios and services that provide commercial-quality backing tracks (also called instrumental tracks or multitracks) for home recording enthusiasts to use with their original songs—either to add vocals or create their own arrangements. These services can range from licensing instrumentals to full custom production. Here are some of the top options:

🎧 1. SoundBetter (by Spotify)
What it is: A marketplace where you can hire professional producers, musicians, and engineers to create or provide tracks.

Best for: Custom commercial tracks or collaborations.

URL: soundbetter.com

🎼 2. BeatStars
What it is: A platform where producers sell beats and instrumentals, often with various licensing options (lease vs. exclusive).

Best for: Hip-hop, pop, R&B, and trap artists.

URL: beatstars.com

🎹 3. AIRGIGS
What it is: Hire session musicians, producers, or composers to create tracks or contribute to your song.

Best for: Fully produced tracks tailored to your song idea.

URL: airgigs.com

🎤 4. Karaoke Version – Custom Backing Tracks
What it is: Lets you buy multitrack instrumental versions of popular songs, but also offers a tool to customize each instrument.

Best for: Cover songs or experimenting with arrangements.

URL: karaoke-version.com

🎛 5. Fiverr (Music & Audio Section)
What it is: Freelance marketplace where you can find producers to create or provide original instrumentals.

Best for: Budget-friendly custom tracks across genres.

URL: fiverr.com

I've also attached a YouTube video of five local Nashville musicians that for part-time income, provide backing tracks to home recording enthusiasts.

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Tracking Day 2017

A summary of the video is this group of five gets together once a month and usually records 10-12 songs (five tracks total) for customers and charging $100 per session player. Each song normally takes 10-15 minutes of recording time. The owner of the studio, who also charts the songs, receives an extra $50. That's a total of $550 per song when the video was published in 2017.

The video demonstrates that with using BIAB, a person can duplicate all of the services and quality these session players provide. BIAB can chart, supply five tracks of essentially any instrument and a WAV copy of each track provided to the customer. It's a matter of replacing live session musicians with BIAB tracks recorded by live session musicians playing real instruments.

The market is there. The demand is there. Good marketing and the skill and expertise to program and arrange songs in BIAB that provide advanced, complex arrangements created using BIAB as an audio generating tool is the key. Using $100 as the base charge per track, 40 tracks per month generates an income providing $3,000 net income. That's 8 songs per month.

BIAB is capable of creating first generation tracks where the algorithm is programmed to anticipate silence, instrument changes, intro's, outro's fade-in, fade-out, doubling, and solo's. BIAB can create melodies, have effects added, volume automation, can analyze audio for tempo mapping and chord detection. BIAB can print lead sheets, notation, and tab.

The bottom line is that for a person seeking a career in music, BIAB has the tools, techniques and features that someone can use BIAB to create quality backing tracks just like the musicians in the video and the producers, musicians and arrangers do on the above web-sites.