Sometimes, people spend their entire lives trying to follow their dream only to find that it never amounted to what they had hoped. Other times, people end up getting lucky and are surprised by how quickly their career forms. Regardless of how quickly your career begins to take off, you will need to work harder than ever to maintain your success, build your skills, and improve your talents every single day.
If you are passionate about pursuing a career in music, perhaps you have considered signing to a record label. Having a record deal does not mean instantaneous success. While some record deals could hurt your career’s future, others can help take you to the next level.
Stage presence is an extremely important aspect of being a successful musician. Even if the music you create is phenomenal, you want to be able to connect with your fans. Perform your music in a way that compliments your unique sound and style. Here are some tips on how to improve your stage performance, gain a better stage presence, and become more entertaining on stage.
Most bands have the same intention: to make amazing amazing. While some bands are compromised of close friends that are equally passionate about music, other bands are formed by a manager hand selecting various talent. If you are already in a band and one of your members is not carrying their weight, it may be time to remove them from the group.
These days, social media is one of the most important aspects of modern marketing yet many musicians lack all important social media strategy and marketing knowledge. This guide provides useful tips to help grow your audience and fanbase with social media.
Being a small and emerging artist often necessitates doing things ‘on a budget’, so make sure you have at least a rough plan on how you will allocate your money. But when doing so, it’s important to make realistic assessments; there’s nothing worse than running out of money and having to busk your way out of the poverty line. Setting a budget for touring can be invariably difficult, with many unanticipated expenses cropping up along the way…
It’s important that when you’re looking for new band members that you do not choose someone solely on the basis of their musical talent. Indeed, there are an array of largely speculative considerations to mull over when selecting new bandmates.
While bands typically elect for a range of t-shirts, badges, stickers, wristbands and physical copies of their discography to flog at shows, others groups choose to go very much against the grain of this established musical protocol. From the outlandish to the downright practical, we look at the latest range of unconventional band merchandise that truly breaks the mould.
It’s no secret that touring can be one of the main highlights of being a musician. However, DIY touring is fraught with a number of potential difficulties – many of which are avoidable when taking the right precautions. There is little in life that can truly compare to the excitement you feel when pulling into a new city, knowing you have a show to play there that evening. Should this be your first venture into life on the road, you’re likely to have a number of questions about how it all works. Touring is what YOU make of it, and should not be something you approach tepidly.
For many of us a new calendar year signals an opportune moment to set out plans for self-improvement by identifying specific lifestyle changes we’d to make for the new year ahead. In the case of playing music, the benefits extend well beyond the thrill of unmasking your creative talents. It’s never too late to take up music, nor is it too late to renew the passion you may have once had.