I am 21 y.o. and i'm from Italy. Meanwhile, I apologize for my English. I wanted to discuss one thing since in this period I find myself at the mercy of "chaos" and I am more or less understanding what to do in my life. I have many passions in life but that of drums is what I am feeling more and more mine. The problem arises from the moment I have to face the working world. And here are the various questions that I have been asking myself for a few months: for example, drummers (leaving out private lessons or in a school), how do they make money? I play with a friend who has an "indie pop" project, but I sound more like an "arranger" and just yesterday we were discussing the label factor, booking-shows factor and things like that together and it seemed to me a totally unknown world, thick and above all challenging compared to the (perhaps) "amateur" one we are in now. Yet I would love to enter this world of professional drummers, where meetings are held with managers, people in the sector, recording studios and things like that and yet I keep asking myself HOW to do this ... in order for this to happen, the drummer must have a band in the proper sense and not an arranger project?
P.s. there is also to say that I listen to a lot of metal, I am a huge fan of metalcore bands and in the last period also of Djent and I dream of living in America where this genre is more in vogue. "Unfortunately" here in Italy the Trap (copied by the Americans) and the Indie genre do a lot. In this sense, I often do not really feel these genres as my own, but it is also true that for metal there is no one and above all I DO NOT LIKE TO HAVE AMATEUR BANDS, HOW CAN I ENTER IN PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS? This is my dream
P.s. there is also to say that I listen to a lot of metal, I am a huge fan of metalcore bands and in the last period also of Djent and I dream of living in America where this genre is more in vogue. "Unfortunately" here in Italy the Trap (copied by the Americans) and the Indie genre do a lot. In this sense, I often do not really feel these genres as my own, but it is also true that for metal there is no one and above all I DO NOT LIKE TO HAVE AMATEUR BANDS, HOW CAN I ENTER IN PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS? This is my dream