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!

Here are 5 Tips on making your music sound better.

Tip 1:

Use a condenser microphone with a pop filter with your digital audio workstation. You can get one of these at your local music store, or you can look online and shop around. There are tons and tons of mics out there. The c414 is a very good mic I would recommend for vocals. I recommenced spending at least 300-2000 on your mic, and don’t be cheap. Get a decent mic, and ask around and find out who uses what, and what kind of deals you an get.

Tip 2:

Look for the tone in the song, sometimes referred to as the “key” of the song. Just hum and find the overall tone of the music, and then put your vocals on the track in that tone, like they were an instrument. It will make the over all song sound better because now you are an instrument instead of just words on a beat.

Tip 3:

Project your voice. Stop mumbling(unless that’s your thing) If you are speaking really low, you might be not be putting enough energy into the song and it is lack-luster. Make your listeners feel you music by rapping/singing from the diaphragm. Put some soul into it and make people really feel your words by pronouncing them, and putting emphasis in certain words.

Tip 4:

You have to invest into yourself and your career. Get an engineer to mix your records. Find a local studio, and pay for studio time so a trained engineer can critically listen to your music. Do an overall blend of all the different sounds in a beat, tracked out, mixed with your vocals to make a final mix.

Tip 5:

Get your songs mastered by a professional. These days mastering is cheap and you can find someone online to do it. This makes sure the song is as loud as possible and radio ready. Its the next step after a final mix. The mastering engineer makes the song playable and loud across all different systems. Most if not all commercial CD’s and radio songs you hear are mastered. That’s why the bass has a punch and all the sound is loud and vivid.

I hope these tips were helpful for you! Not go and make some great music!

Best,
Gm3