Check out this video by the homies Wiz and Snoop ft Bruno Mars

Good sound = more listeners. If you are serious about your music then you should be mixing and mastering your beats. You can find some really good plug-ins out there to help you do this. I try to always use a variety of plugins mainly from the Waves bundle. You should be tracking out your beats to a DAW such as Pro-Tools or Logic and mixing the tracks down with your vocals to get a better sound. You need to be mixing your music on studio quality monitors and in a sound treated room. You don’t want to put out a final mix of vocals on just a 2-tracks mixed on headphones. Set a standard of quality for your music and always move forward, not backward. Sometimes that’s all you have to work with, but if you can then you should try and get the beat tracked out and then mix the vocals in the same session that you mix your beat with. You might need a Pro-Tools HD rig if the track count is extremely high. If you mix your beats then more people will buy them, just like if you mix your music more people will listen to it. My friend made a mixing services website if you need someone to mix your music. He has mixed for some huge names in the industry. I built the website as well, so if you need someone to do a website then hit me up! I will be uploading some mixing tutorials soon to help you get started on mixing your own music. Hope this helps! – Peace

If your are like me you want to get the word out on your music. Here are a few ways you can do that.

Tip 1:

Put out Youtube videos all the time, with GOOD CONTENT. Do a series or something to keep new videos coming, and make descriptions that links back to your site. Create a blog as well and publish your music and efforts. Always bring something fresh to the table, and constantly evolve. One step further is to get your own website and do a full-on marketing plan for you business. Connect with your fans directly, and answer every comment.

Tip 2:

Pass out printed flyers to the local scene or current location you are in. Get out there and make it happen. If you sitting around thinking about how to get out there. Just stop what your doing and go make it happen. Literally “Get Out There”!

Tip 3:

Local recording studios have the people you need to be around to learn and network your way into studio sessions. Situations that arise by being in the right place and the right time are important in this business. They don’t happen often, but when they do, it is always in the studio. I can’t tell you how many times I have been at the right studio and the right time. It’s all about experience, so get in a studio and get some hands on experience. It is priceless. You never know who you will meet.

Tip 4:

Use Twitter correctly. It connects you to new people in your market if you use it right. Don’t just post dumb tweets. Use some cleverness, ask a question, interact with people. To get the most out of your efforts, use a search filter tool like HootSuite or TweetDeck. Monitor phrases and keywords in your nitch. For example, you could monitor the words “new music”, so when someone tweets “I want to listen to new music..” you will receive that tweet as an update and then you can reply to that person with a link to your music. They are looking for new music and you are providing it. It’s a win win and eliminates the spam aspect of internet marketing.

Tip 5:

Use email marketing to interact with your fans through a newsletter or some other type of update that they can follow. This usually goes right to their phone nowadays, and is the best way to retain fans.

I hope this was helpful to you on your journey of being successful in the music industry. Please follow me on twitter @followthebeats and click the like button on our homepage to support my business. Thanks!