Kritical MeSh
New member
Hi everyone. If this topic has been covered before apologies in advance.
Im new to the world of music promotion and I need some sound , effective advice on advertising, promoting and all the above steps for this phase of the journey in starting out on hopefully a long and prosperous music career.
There is a lot of information out there regarding this phase and how one shoud go about it, but to be honest with you it is difficult to find step effective messaures that a beginner to the biz like me can really get the ball rolling with. What also makes it quite overwhelming is that much of the advice can be very conflicting.
So where and how do I start effectivly?
SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTING:
I think we've all heard about the taboo of using social media to promote your beats and the methods that surround it. So What is an effective way to use these platforms?
How does one effectivly use Twitter, Soundcloud & Facebook?
As a begginer I have absolutely no fan base - save a few friends on FB that ''like my music''. What is an effective way to build a solid fan base and get interest in you beats?
SELLING AND GIVING AWAY BEATS
Again, we are familiar with some of the information that surrounds this issue and how to go about it, but I want to know Step Effective Measures to undertake.
How should one strike the balance between giving away and selling my beats. At the end of the day we producers want to see some cash for our craft, but at the same time not look like money grabbers.
Here is an example of my situation:
Im just about to put together an instrumental beat mixtape and want to promote it. Im putting a lot of hard work into it and I want to get it out there. Now as a begginer I dont have a lot of money, so copywriting every single beat on it is an issue. How do I approach this situation with a beat mixtape? Do I release it as a free give away, allowing anyone and everyone to get there hands on material with no copywrite protection? Even risk NOT getting credit alone for it.
This is my dilema. How do I keep control of my materal whilst trying to spread it to a wide an audience as possible without losing credit or possible profit for my material, especially for mixtapes, which leads me to my next query.
CONTRACTS:
How should these be drawn up and on what basis?
Is there a fundamental basis which means that the terms that one agrees with another party hold significance without being loop-holed outside of legal proceeding? if that makes sence!
In the case of releasing free beats without copywrite protection, can money still be made?
So there you have it. What do you think?
Im new to the world of music promotion and I need some sound , effective advice on advertising, promoting and all the above steps for this phase of the journey in starting out on hopefully a long and prosperous music career.
There is a lot of information out there regarding this phase and how one shoud go about it, but to be honest with you it is difficult to find step effective messaures that a beginner to the biz like me can really get the ball rolling with. What also makes it quite overwhelming is that much of the advice can be very conflicting.
So where and how do I start effectivly?
SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTING:
I think we've all heard about the taboo of using social media to promote your beats and the methods that surround it. So What is an effective way to use these platforms?
How does one effectivly use Twitter, Soundcloud & Facebook?
As a begginer I have absolutely no fan base - save a few friends on FB that ''like my music''. What is an effective way to build a solid fan base and get interest in you beats?
SELLING AND GIVING AWAY BEATS
Again, we are familiar with some of the information that surrounds this issue and how to go about it, but I want to know Step Effective Measures to undertake.
How should one strike the balance between giving away and selling my beats. At the end of the day we producers want to see some cash for our craft, but at the same time not look like money grabbers.
Here is an example of my situation:
Im just about to put together an instrumental beat mixtape and want to promote it. Im putting a lot of hard work into it and I want to get it out there. Now as a begginer I dont have a lot of money, so copywriting every single beat on it is an issue. How do I approach this situation with a beat mixtape? Do I release it as a free give away, allowing anyone and everyone to get there hands on material with no copywrite protection? Even risk NOT getting credit alone for it.
This is my dilema. How do I keep control of my materal whilst trying to spread it to a wide an audience as possible without losing credit or possible profit for my material, especially for mixtapes, which leads me to my next query.
CONTRACTS:
How should these be drawn up and on what basis?
Is there a fundamental basis which means that the terms that one agrees with another party hold significance without being loop-holed outside of legal proceeding? if that makes sence!
In the case of releasing free beats without copywrite protection, can money still be made?
So there you have it. What do you think?