Okay, so on this blog post you’re going to understand how to get paid when you perform your music live and/or any other capacity. The main thing to understand is that there are music unions and performance rights organizations and this is what happens. Let’s say there’s a bar or club that you perform in, in order for the club to legally play music of signed or unsigned artists, they have to pay a general licensing fee to either ASCAP, BMI or whatever music union or any other