The Gigs Handbook: A Beginner's Guide to Playing Professionally

The Gigs Handbook teaches amateurs, student and working musicians alike how to begin playing music jobs. The reader takes a music class called "Gigs 101" along with four cartoon characters and learns how to make contacts and bookings, communicate with managers, charge and bill customers, consult and perform for weddings and special events and begin playing by ear. The book is especially recommended to pianists.