Making Money with Your Music in 2017

[Zombie Queen]

I hope that you're not trying to diss plugin?

Fixed it for you.

[mholloway]

I think the real trick to making money with your music is to sell three hour classes to a shit ton of people for $100 each about how you're going to make money with your music.

This.

[Aleatoriac]

Making Money with Your Music in 2017.

During 3-hour Online Workshop...

Wait. Something does not fit here.

Make money with music... BWa ha ha ha ha ha

What an ANTIQUATED concept

Don't you plebes understand if it isn't the first level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs it isn't important




I'm half joking. Only half though. The other half is a cynical bastard.

[Hooj]

BTW, I have another bridge for sale if you're interested!

[incubus]

I think the real trick to making money with your music is to sell three hour classes to a shit ton of people for $100 each about how you're going to make money with your music.

This.

+1

[jancivil]

3-hour online workshop.

The thing that the topics suggest is you're going to need to be pushy and persistent and hit it from a number of angles. There's probably good advice in there, but 3-hour online workshop isn't going to replace the life lessons youse will needs dealing with people.

One of the life lessons you may learn by tossing 100 bucks at this cat for online 'workshop'.
You are going to knock on virtual doors in that?

[Vortifex]

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[Functional]

Give me £100 and I'll tell you how to make money.

I doubt there's any advice in this 'masterclass' that's not already available for free in multiple places on the internet.

Yeah but technically this sort of stuff exists to put it all into tidy package so that, instead of spending countless of hours into the subject, they present you the choice to pay a little for the shortcut.

Problem is that the "shortcut" can't really be much more than a collection of tips. It's not that they're unhelpful, but you can't really reduce all aspects of being commercially successful into those three hours, which is sort of implied here.

[SampleScience]

Interesting concept but for less money I can get a Masterclass from Hans Zimmer or Deadmau5:

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/han ... m-scoring?
https://www.masterclass.com/classes/dea ... production

They don't cover the same subject but they are top acts. I think that 97$ is pushing it a bit.

That being said, there is indeed money to be made in the music business. Many people are making it but it's like any business; you have to offer something that is needed and in demand. For instance, if you make deep ambient experimental music without vocals, don't expect much:

https://ourson.bandcamp.com/album/light ... osing-door

However, if you make high tech electro rock tunes (with vocals) and you market yourself properly:

https://celldweller.bandcamp.com/album/ ... xe-edition

I'm not saying one is better than the other, but one is certainly more sellable than the other. The same goes with anything, artistic or not; movies, restaurants, foods, transportation, furniture, etc.

[Sendy]

Do a tutorial on how to make a tutorial.

Impossible - there are no tutorials on how to make a tutorial on how to make a tutorial. It's tutorials all the way down; or lack of them.

[Vortifex]

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[thecontrolcentre]

I've often wondered how much someone like Aphex Twin makes off his standard releases. He's well known but his music is very niche. Other artists like Tim Hecker or Haxan Cloak are even less well known and even more niche. I'd be very surprised if they could earn a living purely from music sales alone.

Aphex Twin drives a cab when he's not making music.

[SampleScience]

I've often wondered how much someone like Aphex Twin makes off his standard releases. He's well known but his music is very niche. Other artists like Tim Hecker or Haxan Cloak are even less well known and even more niche. I'd be very surprised if they could earn a living purely from music sales alone.

I know that Tim Hecker doesn't make a living with his music, from what I've heard a couple of years ago at a Mutek conference in Montreal. Maybe it changed now.

[Vortifex]

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[thecontrolcentre]

Aphex Twin drives a cab when he's not making music.

I heard he floats around urban landscapes at night in a secret balloon recording people's conversations and using the waveforms to trigger custom synths built by wizards.

I think that's the new Uber Balloon service ...