Course Description

5 Steps To A Roadie Job course for $1!Have you always dreamed of working with bands on tour, but been frustrated because you don't know where to start?

Enroll in a trial of this step-by-step plan, so that you can travel the world, work with incredible musicians, and get paid for it.

You are really interested in working as roadie, going on tour with bands. However, you cant find out how to get started, and you are worried that you don't have the necessary skills or experience to get you the job. In fact, you don't really know what skills and experience you need to be a touring music tech - most Internet resources simply say its hard, manual work, or that you will be ‘setting up sound and light equipment’. Doesn't really help you much does it?

That's why I’ve written the 5-Steps to a Roadie Job course - to give you the information you need in order to get started as roadie, working with bands on tour. Get your trial version to see how this course will help you get the work of your dreams.

The online course for people who don't know where to start to get a roadie job. Enrol today for only $1!

The 5-Steps to A Roadie Job course is a beginner’s guide to getting road crew work with bands on tour. Following the 5 simple steps will enable you to earn a full-time living as a live sound engineer, touring lighting person, concert tour manager, backline tech, or other touring crew job. You will get the full purchase price deducted from the price when you buy the full course. Details will be emailed to you when you purchase the trial for $1!.

What this trial course is about, and what its going to give you:

Complete access to 2 of the 5 steps, so you can start your touring tech career.
The course is for beginners, career-changers, students and those who have done a tiny bit of road crew work and who want to make it into a career
Its a kind of Roadie 101, and features a 5-step action plan
Its written by someone who is a roadie (and has been for a long time)
Gives you two of the exact steps you need to start your own road crew business - vital in order to start working on the road
The full course comes with a free 45-page workbook (download)to help you plan your roadie career

The next step to your road crew career is the first step of the 5-Steps to a Roadie Job trial course!


Praise for the full ‘5-Steps to a Roadie Job’ course:

“This is a really great course. It's practical, no nonsense and easy to follow. Andy Reynolds obviously knows what he's talking about and there's lots of stuff I never would have thought about. A lot of what I've learned here could be really useful in other areas of the music industry so I'm really glad I did this course. Thanks a lot!”

Patrick Gleeson, UK

"I couldn't wait to start [the course] and i had 3 very good reasons. First, Andy doesn't give anything for granted and he explains things in detail. Second, any insight on how the live music business works is pure gold for beginners, specially the ones that can't really afford to pay for a university course. Third (last but not least) the way Andy keeps your hopes up. He is always encouraging, like you really have a chance to become a crew member, and this positive thought is everything."

Clarissa Caputo, Italy

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly do I get in this trial course?
You get complete access to 2 of the 5 steps you can take to start, as a complete beginner, to get jobs working with bands on tour. The 2 steps comprise of 9 full-length video lessons.

What do I get for my money?

  • The trial course is online, and comprises of 9 video lessons (average 5 minutes long), with commentary.
  • You get access to the videos when you enrol, and they are yours to view for 30 days.
  • You get the complete purchase price of the trial course deducted from the price when you go ahead and buy the full course.

I don't have any relevant skills, or experience of the music business. Can I be a roadie?
Yes, you can. The course gives you the information you need to get touring music tech jobs. Although it does not teach you specific job skills (such as mixing live audio for instance) it tells you how to get the work, and details of the the two touring roadie jobs you can do straight away, without any kills or experience at all.

My dad/boyfriend/an old roadie I know says you can't teach this stuff, and that most roadies ‘fell into it’. Is that right?
It probably used to be the case that road crew positions were filled by mates of the band, or ‘failed’ musicians who did indeed ‘fall into it’. Those days are gone though. There is a specific way into the industry (which this course will show you), and a degree of professionalism that is totally unlike that of the live music business in the 80’s and 90’s. As a recent article in Billboard magazine about road crew stated, “You have to work. Because there’s going to be some other guys who’s going to cost half as much as you and do it just as well and he’ll take your job real fast.”

Why should I listen to you?
Good question! Well, Ive been touring for over 25 years, as audio engineer and concert tour manager. Until recently I worked on a an average of 6 tours/250 shows a year. I’m semi-retired now and do a lot of teaching about the live music business at colleges and universities. I still tour and work for bands at gigs and events though and, most importantly to you, help people to start out doing what I do.

Start your touring road crew life - enrol in the trial course today!

Enril in the 5 Steps to a Roadie Job course

Imagine: you are traveling around the world, working with incredible musicians, meeting music loving-people and being paid up to $200,000 a year to do so.


Learning how to get a job as a roadie will enable you to turn your passion for live music into a full-time, high earning career. The Wall Street Journal (1) recently reported some road crew earning $200,000 a year, with the average ‘roadie’ earning at least $60,000 a year – that’s more than the average US household wage (2).

The 5-Steps to A Roadie Job course will help you do that. All you need to do is enroll in the course, and follow the steps:

Step 1: What You Need To Know About The Live Music Business (and how you can be part of it)
Step 2: Get To Know The Various Road Crew Jobs – and the one type of job you really should want

Included in the full course version:
Step 3: Set Up Your Own Freelance Crew Business – to get work, you must know more, be better trained and be more professional in your approach than the next guy. This means setting up your own road crew business
Step 4: Get Your First Work – discover how to find the people who will employ you on their tours and shows
Step 5: Do A Good Job And Get More Road Crew Work – it really is that simple, and following these steps will help you do that.

1.Shah, N. (2015). Roadies: Unlikely Survivors in the Music Business. Wall Street Journal, 19 March. [Online]. [Accessed: 24 March 2016].
2. Anon. (2016). Household income in the United States. [Online]. [Accessed: 24 March 2016].



Instructor, Concert Tour Manager, Live Sound Engineer, Author & Lecturer

Andy Reynolds

I have been involved in the music industry for 25 years as live audio engineer, concert tour manager, lecturer, and author.Concert Tour Management and Live Audio EngineeringAs concert tour manager and live audio engineer (FOH and monitors) I have worked for numerous international touring acts, including Maribou State, Maverick Sabre, The Pierces, All American Rejects, House of Pain, Machine Head, Nightmares On Wax, Pavement, Roots Manuva, Super Furry Animals, Skunk Anansie, and Squarepusher, to name but a few. Ive been touring with these kinds of contemporary acts for nearly 30 years, and I'm just beginning to know what I'm doing. That touring experience has seen me doing gigs in stadiums, arenas, theatres, pubs, bars, clubs, outdoor festivals, rooftops, subway stations, cruise ships, mountain sides and very, very muddy fields. AuthorI have two books published, ‘The Tour Book – How To Get Your Music On The Road’, which is required reading at many colleges and universities that teach music management, including Berklee College of Music, and ‘Roadie, Inc. How To Gain & Keep A Career In The Live Music Business’. I have also written for several magazines and have been interviewed about the live music business for print and radio articles. Lecturer, teacherI have taught live sound engineering and concert tour management for nearly 10 years now, at colleges and universities, including University of West London/London College of Music, Access to Music, The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance,and Buckinghamshire New University. I hold a Post-Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, which basically means I know how to create and deliver great teaching. I have also run sessions and workshops about the live music business for other organizations including the Audio Engineering Society.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    About This Trial Version of the 5 Steps Course

    • Introduction To This Trial Version

  • 2

    Step 1: What You Need To Know About The Live Music Business

    • Lesson 1: Introduction to this step, and why you need to know about the live music business on order to get a roadie touring job.

    • Lesson 2: The Artist Management, the Booking Agent and the Promoter. Discover how their work will affect you.

    • Lesson 3: The Show Booking Process. Shows and tours need to be arranged, and then finalised – this lesson will show you how it’s done.

  • 3

    Step 2: Get To Know The Various Road Crew Jobs

    • Lesson 1: Introduction to step 2. There are in fact three separate groups of crew – the house crew/stage hands, the artists touring crew and the suppliers touring crew – and this lesson will show the difference between them.

    • Lesson 2: House and Local Crew/Stage Hands. The first of the three types of concert crew – who they are, and what they do.

    • Lesson 3:The Artist’s Touring Crew. The second of the three types of concert crew; find out why these are the jobs you really want in this lesson.

    • Lesson 4: The Suppliers Touring Crew. Get to know about the third section of the touring crew community in this lesson.

    • Lesson 5: How To Join These People On-The-Road. You now know about the live music business, and this lesson will give you information on how to start getting touring road crew work.

    • Thank you, and your discount code

  • 4

    Introduction Video

    • 5 Steps To A Roadie Job - Introductory video

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