About

Makingitinmusic.net.… the music indus­try resource focused not only on the work­ing musi­cian, but for any­one in the music busi­ness who desires to max­i­mize their oppor­tu­ni­ties and cre­ate those nec­es­sary build­ing blocks to advance their careers to another level.

Infor­ma­tion by itself is not power;  it is merely raw data. The uti­liza­tion of infor­ma­tion is what cre­ates results. Like­wise, prac­tice in itself, does not “make’ per­fect. The idea that a band prac­tic­ing 10 hours a week is a good thing does not always hold true. Quan­tity does not equal qual­ity. It’s the “what” of what you do that counts.  The com­pe­ti­tion in this busi­ness is bru­tal. Razor sharp focus is a neces­sity if you want the edge and avoid burn out. This is what this blog is about…results.

Hugh Hes­sion

Hugh Hes­sion - the cre­ator of makingitinmusic.net — has been a part of the music indus­try for more than 20 years as a per­former, ses­sion player, pro­ducer, key­boardist, vocal­ist, com­poser and artist man­ager. His songs have been pub­lished and recorded by a vari­ety of record­ing artists, in addi­tion to com­pos­ing for tele­vi­sion and cor­po­rate projects.

In 1996, Hugh started Rubi­con Enter­tain­ment; a regional pub­lic­ity and man­age­ment com­pany where he suc­cess­fully pro­moted the careers of many bands and record­ing artists. He is cur­rently an enter­tain­ment expert on Justanswer.com, spe­cial­iz­ing in the music busi­ness and writes for examiner.com.

Hugh still actively per­forms and is cur­rently work­ing on a new orig­i­nal project at Shadow Sound Stu­dio in Macon, Geor­gia.  He has a bachelor’s in Mar­ket­ing. While he’s not doing music, he is work­ing out (a big fan of P90X), play­ing soc­cer or hang­ing out with the family.

What Oth­ers Are Say­ing About Hugh:

“In my career thus far, I have worked with big names like The Out­laws, Wet Willie, James Brown, Trisha Year­wood, Danny Seraphine, Razzy Bai­ley and more. Hugh has the kind of can do atti­tude that one needs to be at the top of the music busi­ness. This, along with his fan­tas­tic piano and vocal skills and amaz­ing song­writ­ing and arrang­ing abil­ity makes him a must if you want to do some­thing truly pro­fes­sional.”  –Joey Stuckey, Shadow Sound Stu­dios, Macon, Geor­gia. www.joeystuckey.com

“Great song, beau­ti­ful melody! It worked per­fectly for my project.” –Earl Vick­ers, The Sound Guy, Inc., http://sfxmachine.com, http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlvickers (in ref­er­ence to Hugh’s song “Start Over.”)

Hugh is a ded­i­cated and dri­ven music pro­fes­sional with a deep rooted pas­sion for artist devel­op­ment. His web­site MakingItInMusic.net is a true reflec­tion of Hugh’s com­mit­ment to shar­ing his exten­sive knowl­edge of the music indus­try in a growth ori­en­tated style. If you want to learn about the music busi­ness and you’re state­side, Hugh is your man… –Simon Adams, Inter­na­tional Training/Music Con­sul­tant, Keynote Speaker, Music Pro­moter and Busi­ness Coach, Owner of N2R Media and author of “101 Ways To Mar­ket Your Music On The Web.”

Dis­claimer

Ok. I’m not a big fan of dis­claimers. Most of them are very dry, but nev­er­the­less, you need to have an under­stand­ing that I am not an attor­ney, and any infor­ma­tion in this blog that even remotely deals with any legal issue needs to be taken up with an attor­ney (and remem­ber, you are in the music busi­ness, so please ask an enter­tain­ment attor­ney). I offer infor­ma­tion based upon my expe­ri­ences as a music indus­try pro­fes­sional, how­ever this infor­ma­tion is just that — infor­ma­tion. I go to great pains to ensure that it is accu­rate, how­ever on the event that it isn’t — I’m not avail­able to be sued. Basi­cally, this means that I am not held liable for some­one using my infor­ma­tion — not get­ting the results they expect, and then sue me. This is for infor­ma­tional pur­poses only. And did I men­tion that you need to get an attor­ney if you want legal advice! I’m not one!

Also, I reserve the right to mon­i­tor com­ments. If you only knew how many peo­ple try to use the com­ments to merely adver­tise their web­sites. This blog is not the clas­si­fieds. If you are in the music biz, want to be a part of the busi­ness, or merely like to read my blog — great. I love feed­back and com­ments to my posts and wel­come that. In that regard– I have no prob­lem with you leav­ing your web­site URL. But, if you just want to spam the blog –I do have a prob­lem with that.

Thanks!