Music promotion is a ongoing process. If you want to reach as many people as possible, you need to constantly be raising awareness of you and your brand. When you’re still an independent musician, juggling both marketing and making music can be a big task. There are only so many hours in the day, and…
Woo hoo, another competition is here! Today the prize is supplied by the lovely folks over at Producertech, and is for this cool drumming course. As you can see the price is normally £49.99 to enroll (about $82), but I’m giving away two copies for free to my lovely readers. 😉 You can see what…
Playing gigs is an all important part of most musician’s music careers. If you’ve played more then 5 or 10 gigs however, chances are you’ve played at least one where your levels just weren’t right. Either the microphone was too low and you couldn’t hear yourself, or one of the instruments was overpowering all the…
This is a topic I’ve wanted to cover for a while, as it’s one that I know a lot of musicians go through. You’re part of either a band or group of musicians, who probably came together for the love of the music. But when it comes to certain essential tasks (think marketing, arranging practice…
New websites for musician are popping up all the time. Some that claim they can help you get new fans, some that say they will make the distribution of your music easier then ever before. To the untrained eye, these new websites may seem like the missing tool you need to get people noticing your…
Have you heard of SEO before? If not, you’re really going to want to pay attention to this guide! Using SEO can help you get a lot more targeted people hearing your music, and from an avenue a lot of musicians never pursue. Today I’m going to introduce you to what SEO is, the different…
When you’re new to songwriting, it’s often easy to have your lyrics sound very basic. We’re generally taught how to rhyme in school, so when we start out writing our first song, often we go back to what we’ve learned and the lyrics end up sounding quite simplistic and basic. The problem is, there are…
It’s competition time again!! Today thanks to Budi Voogt, I’ve got two copies of his Soundcloud Bible ebook to give away! I’ve also managed to interview the man himself, and ask him a bunch of Soundcloud related questions to which he replies to with gold! So if you’re interested in learning how to master Soundcloud,…
So you’ve just recorded a song. It may be your first song, it may be that you’ve recorded a few already. Either way, you want to know how you can get it out there, and start to build up your name as a talented musician. Today I’m going to show you how to do just…
Educating yourself in the business side of the music industry is all important. I’m guessing you know that if you’re reading this article. 🙂 If you’ve read all the free guides you’ve found online and are ready to take your music business knowledge to the next level, you may be at the stage where you’re…
If you want to distribute your music online, there are three places people generally go to do this. In no particular order: Songcast, TuneCore, and CD Baby. While there are other online music distributors, these are three of the main ones. But which one is cheapest? This is what we aim to find out today….
I’ve just finished reading a post over at Tunecore about a musician named Mindy Smith. In it, she mentions that she had been part of a major record label for seven years, but eventually decided to go it alone. She has since released some of her material independently, and has continued making sales of her…
OK, so I know the music industry can be expensive to get involved in. While we often look for free ways to do the things we need to do, some things are simply not possible to skimp on. Some of these things are studio time, any needed instruments, distributing and promoting your music, etc. So…
As I’m sure many of you know, having a website is important for any business. It can bring you in customers, raise awareness of anything you have going on, and generally build trust with the people you want to ‘impress’. Oh yer, and it can increase your income. As a musician, the same things apply….
So, you have this quality new song you’ve just recorded, and you’re convinced that the world needs to hear this modern day work of art. Is it worth sending it to a record label to see if they want to sign it for a single deal? Or what about sending in a longer demo to…