Immediately upload every track you make for critique/showcasing? Or do you make a track and let it marinate for a day or so before you review and release it?
Do you keep your 'bangers' in a vault to keep them exclusive and release other stuff?
Right now Im mainly releasing almost everything I make just cause I dont have any real buzz yet and im trying to show off or whatever, but have recently started a folder for my exclusive shit. right now I only got one full beat in it, but thats where stuff Im trying to keep secret will go.
That way I can have something for the artist who says, do you have anything no one has heard before?
I was thinking that maybe the reason you dont hear, SSO, vybe, etc beats all over the place is cause when they put them on SC for everyone to hear, they loose exclusivity. Of course they have some placements, but id almost bet that the artists said let me hear whats NOT on the soundclick... cause their beats are definitely 'industry quality' and im speaking in terms of clean mixes etc etc.
Obviously you want to release shit for people to hear until you have regular inquires from artists, an HD full of unheard beats will get you no where, but im thinking it may be a good idea to keep some stash heat as well. Input? Lets talk about real shit on here that will help us better our craft not gossip about other dudes (rappers/producers who already made it)
I closed my vault. All it is, is old beats that nobody wanted.
Right now, I don't make beats unless someone cuts me a check first. If I sit down to make a beat, it's because someone has contracted me to do a song, or I'm creating a song for licensing purposes.
But I'm not sitting in my studio, spending countless hours just "making beats", in case someone wants one of them.
That operating procedure has always been very crazy to me. In any other business, if someone wants your services, they don't ask you to "do the work" first, and then if they like it, they'll pay you. They make a deposit on the work, and then pay you the other half upon satisfactory completion.
Only in "producing" can someone say "yeah, send me some beats", and you spend a month working on beats, and you send em off and they say "ehhh...I don't like any of those.
So you just wasted your time.
I'm not doing that anymore. Write the check, or I'm not even turning this equipment on.
Thats interesting troup, what do you suggest to people like me who are still building everything? Im about a year into all this so far. A lot of the sitting and making beats right now is practice for me, trying to find my sound, plus i just enjoy it.
Also, do you get regular licensing placements? I recently signed up for....shit i think its pump audio....? Im waiting to be green lit right now. Any other avenues I should look at? Ive heard of rumblefish but what do you do?
Thats interesting troup, what do you suggest to people like me who are still building everything? Im about a year into all this so far. A lot of the sitting and making beats right now is practice for me, trying to find my sound, plus i just enjoy it.
Also, do you get regular licensing placements? I recently signed up for....shit i think its pump audio....? Im waiting to be green lit right now. Any other avenues I should look at? Ive heard of rumblefish but what do you do?
What do i recommend? Study the greats...keep practicing...I mean every day, for hours a day. You get out of it what you put into it. Don't try to know everything right now. Pace yourself, because there's more to know to this thing than you probably realize right now.
Umm...I guess you can say I get regular licensing placements. But they are all deals I put together like 4 years ago.
Hell, I logged into my PRO account today and noticed that I had some stuff placed on Country Music Television! I was like uhhh, ok! lol
I don't know much about the placement services (Pump, Rumblefish, etc). I took my music directly to the Music Supervisors, and built relationships from there.
most ppl are making at least a beat a day
so you'll have a vault no matter what
but
what you decide to display online or send out to artists is up to you and what they are requesting
that's why having relationships in place is important that way you have artists to shop your beats to
instead of them just sitting on your hard drive.
Yeah, Im coming up on my first year in October/November. I practice all the time, this is almost all I do lol. For my first year in my eyes Ive been very successful. I have learned sooo much and my beats have improved drastically but I have a ways to go.
Did you go to the 'music supervisors' by figuring out who they were from credits or what?
This is interesting to hear that you two mostly do custom works for a check. I see a lot of vids of X Producer "playing beats for" x Rapper.
I guess a good game plan would be to have a vault of your favorite beats you made, a bunch of released shit on mediums like soundclick and personal websites, and keep your skills sharp so you can go in on custom beats fairly quickly.
Usually Im sittin on 30 to 40 beats and up. When I start working on projects I become a bit of a perfectionist and that causes me to toss out alot of tracks, so I might have an EP with 5 tracks and 20 beats that didn't make the cut lol. Then beyond that, I make a gang of beats to try out new production techniques and to get thoughts and ideas out of my head.
@Tone i make a bunch of snippets in a day, but i normally have to take a break after I go all out and put a bunch of time/effort into a fully completed record. I generally make SOMETHING in fl every day, just may not be finished or ever get finished lol. Actually I probably make about 5+ throwaways a day.
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