Hello! Thanks for looking in to my campaign. My name is Jason Wagers, a 23 year old male songwriter from Berea, Kentucky. I grew up in a small town and always dreamed of doing something big with my deepest passion, MUSIC. I am now, after years of hard work, practice and education at a point where my dream is primed and ready for elevation. I have learned from scratch how to record and produce my music at a professional sound quality standard, and as a result, I have finished a full album of music all in one tiny apartment. It is done and ready for the marketplace. I have not only finished the album alone, but i have also made individual art and animation for each track on the album. This process took about a year of working on both tasks simultaneously during all of my free-time not occupied at my server job. When my works were starting to get complete, I invested in a class about the online music industry and how to get your music into the market place. The class taught me all about how to run a real music business with today's modern strategies and techniques. I now know all of the steps of becoming a functioning indie-musician, instead of remaining a confused, or a starved one. Getting this album distributed physically is something my heart is set on and it's something that will catapult my music career into fruition. I will invest the proceeds from this album into my next album distribution project and future merchandise. plus, I will get to physically hold this piece that I have worked so hard on, and that literally raises the hairs on my arm to think about!
3,000 dollars is what I lack from being able to get my album distributed physically. The deal I am looking at is a deal that is a little more expensive than the other deals, but it will get me the most legitimate product and this is super important, because this album has taken so much work that I want it to be the best it can for the fans and myself. This deal includes an 8 page booklet for the album that I can include all of the songs artwork in with lyrics. There are 7 songs on the album which will allow me a spare page for all of my deep thank you's to everyone that has helped me out along the creation process. There is also a perk on my campaign for 75 dollars, where I will have a special thank you with your name printed on the inside of my album! So it will be inside that album forever and everyone will see that you contributed to producing the work!
I have a big list of perks on this campaign for people that decide to help me out. My perks are actually better deals than if you were to go and buy my digital releases when they come out which I have done on purpose hoping more people decide to contribute. This will help me far better than buying my music because there is no third party taking a percentage of the proceeds, but hey!, I wont complain about either. Thanks for anything that helps me out and gets my music in your hands, even if it's just sharing my crowdfund video to a social media site.
If I do not reach my goal in this campaign, all of the money goes back to donators and I don't get ANY of it. I will surely figure out another way if this happens, but I have faith that the goal will be met! It's a risky bet, but when people start seeing the updates on my campaign, they're going to see that Iv'e created a very solid project and want to contribute to it's creation. If I reach my goal however, I will have enough money to distribute my c.d's worldwide, and continue to invest in my music career with what I make from album sales. I will in the future get even higher education on sound recording at a Recording College, I will invest in better equipment and I will start building my Record Label from the ground up. When I have all of my knowledge and equipment I will start producing not only my albums, but also other artists. It is my dream to do music forever and I have a solid budgeting plan to get me there. So I really have my fingers crossed on this campaign!
This album has been very carefully crafted and it's going to be something to cherish forever. If you already know me, then you know I have been playing guitar since I was 11 years old, and that I have played in bands since I was 14 years old but this is by far the biggest accomplishment. On this record I play guitar, bass guitar, drums, organs, tambourine and I also write and sing the lyrics. I have done nothing throughout my teen years & young adulthood but try and make my dreams possible and here I am, many steps closer but still a small distance away.
There will still be challenges along the way even If I meet my goal in this campaign, like getting good publicity, continuing to pay artist services (which you can't go without), Rejection, Finishing more albums and budgeting my money well enough to make album releases without running another campaign, BUT I am the man for the job. I will work around each and every barrier so that I can continue to give people good music in fact I always work my way through barriers and get to the bigger picture. I have already proven that by getting to the step that I am at, and now it is time to move even further!
If you cannot donate I still thank you VERY much for looking into this campaign. It means the world to me that you would, and if you wouldn't care to use the share button on the side of this page to share my video, that would certainly help a lot!
Once again, thanks for helping me bring my dream to life!
Sincerely,
Jason Wagers.