None, I would say.
As a fresher, first you need to get your talent exploited, and not your financial genius. You would have something raw inside of you, and that needs seasoning. That requires effort not only from you, but from the person who would be calling you over for a music project.
You may be a singer, instrumentalist, or a sound engineer waiting for that kickass job/project. And you’re in it for money, as you need to support your family, a younger sibling for higher education, a family that you just started, and so on. Keeping money over music is the worst strategy you can adopt when you’re starting out in music.
You think you deserve more and value yourself as if you were up for listing on Nasdaq or BSE. You will want to fly high on every like or comment you get on your social profiles for that last song you uploaded. Not done.
You’re only sinking deep down into the sewers of money addiction or commercialization of music. And when money stops flowing, you and your music will both stink.
Instead, focus on –
– Getting to learn from a diverse set of professionals and projects.
– First proving your mettle.
– Letting the real world and real people from the industry get the best of you.
– Earning a library of projects you’ve worked on and can proudly fall back on.
– Building a reputation, a name for yourself to bank upon.
Money will keep up the pace with your struggle to learn; it’ll multiply in number every time you cross a hurdle, fall, and then rise. You’ll eventually get and can demand what you deserve.
“How much will I learn from that project?” is what you should be asking.
Start right. Money can wait.
I started working for free on many projects and received a pair of overused multimedia speakers as payment for one project.