So you want to be a singer / songwriter / or a producer? Do you want to be a winner in that race to fame and fortune and to be known as, “that guy who knows how to make good music” as the checks start to fall from your pocket?
If so, congratulations! The world is a delight. The music industry is the most freely expressed of of all. Be one of the successful, famous and talented musicians in that world, and you are a winner.
Get passion hearted, open your ears and listen to the world around you. You will learn how the world works. Be one of the millions of talented people out there, and you are a winner every time you play your guitar, or your piano, or your saxophone, or whatever your playing instrument is. It’s not easy to be a successful songwriter, but the rewards are great.
Don’t waste your time learning how to make good music. Work for it. Music is a business and if you are not used to it, you may find yourself in a position where you need to learn to navigate the road again. It’s like a war when you are out there,meet new people, make friends, make deals.
Be a musician and learn to communicate with your audience through your music. That is the kind of personality that we need today. People today are introverted by nature. They need to be friends with people. They need to feel like they know them. And there is nobody better than music to give them that. Music is the best tool to use to build lasting relationships.
Using your music to express yourself or whichever way you like is one of the best ways to make a living in this tough economy. Now, if you are going to apply that to your music, just bear in mind that your audience is also finding it tough to be associated with you, your music and your personality.
Appeal to the Blogosphere.
I am not getting out in the field of music blogs because it is a tough business to break into. Everyone knows about MySpace and Facebook. But there is a whole lot more out there. And a lot of it, may be harder to achieve.
There is a lot of content out there for composers. But you need to seek out the ones that are of a quality level appropriate for your purposes. Focus on the type of things you need to emphasis with. Again, it’s a balance.
Have a blog. If you don’t have one, start one. The great thing about starting one is that you can link to other blogs that are of high quality. The search engines read those blogs too.
Be reader.
There are many online articles and books and magazines and books on music. And they are all free. And they are focused on the topic of music. So go to your library and start looking for music books and articles.
And focus on the ones that are of high quality, like a book from the library. Go to bookmarked websites like “indie-music.com”, “guidetosemail.com”, etc., and look at the books you have sitting there that look interesting. Go to the book market and buy some great books. And don’t forget about magazines!
bandwidth is getting cheaper, too. It’s important to have enough bandwidth. You want to have the ability to upload and download as much music as possible, in good time. You need more than enough.
Earlier, I was looking at music blogs. I can use ones like “thisisplaying.blogspot.com” or “abthunder.olo.org” and download those songs I want. Now, I find a website called autotrader.com and join that. I pay them a small fee and they send me a monthly digest. I just join, once a month, and download what I need.
One bag of tricks.
Autotrader also lets me use their feature which is called Mozart mode. It’s a wonderful feature that turns any website into a streaming radio station. I find it wonderful for when I know only a few songs. It makes me feel like I am on tour with John Mayer.
Now, once I have myriads of songs in its MP3 entirety, I can autotune them and download them later. And I can spend hours and hours later mixing and matching andiddling with my downloads. And it will never cost me a dime.
And the amazing thing is, this is all free. Way Kahler. Go to the bank, tell them to shifter me the address of the MP3 file, and wait. The teller will give me a code and I just input the code into MySpace and boom!
Bella And Melody's Musical Experience 