Hello. My name is Miguel, and I have been an artist for at least 10 years. I prominently create electronic music; I am what you could call a "Bedroom Producer", even though I have a specified area for music production, and use professional equipment (not too much though, I'm not made of money).
In the past I was somewhat misguided, not knowing where I could put my music on, but eventually I started posting it on Soundcloud. Recently I started posting it Bandcamp as well, which is much better for smaller artists.
The thing is, smaller artists get plays, but I get nothing.
I believe that if you have good music, you get plays (and some advertising doesn't hurt). On soundcloud, music I have uploaded months ago hasn't even got a single play (there's a song with 400+ plays but that's bot bulls**t), and when there's any sort of play or like, it's a bot account.
So I've been asking myself "Is my music THAT bad no one wants to hear it?". Maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to people who read this topic. I will leave a dropbox link to my songs. This isn't a promotion, nor it is a request to "check out my stuff". I just want a somewhat public consensus on what my music sounds like, because even getting feedback is a tough job. You can download it if you want, just please don't steal it, as it's already published.
If most people like it, then please teach me how to advertise it so more people can hear it. I don't care about making money (my paypal is not configured on purpose), I just want people to listen to my music and enjoy it, while sharing it with others. To be perfectly honest, however, I'm not against making money with my music, but it's not my main objective.
Thank you for spending your time reading this, and listening, it's very appreciated. Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k75mwo9dia2o ... ly8la?dl=0
What am I doing wrong?
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- KVRAF
- 11000 posts since 15 Apr, 2019 from Nowhere
It's hard work to get your music in front of people and it's not as easy as uploading it in the right place - there are so many artists uploading music now that it's just difficult to get heard, regardless of how good your music is.
One thing you might want to consider is looking at options other than sites that cater only for uploading music. YouTube is the obvious one, but that does mean adding a visual element to the music too. Other options are to look at live performance. Not necessarily playing gigs, but maybe getting something commissioned - music for film, theater, art installations, write songs for other people, etc. Another thing is to start networking - make contacts in the music business and anything where music plays a part. Write a resume, set up a LinkedIn profile, get Twitter followers.
Really it's a case of doing as much of everything you can, but just uploading to music sites alone is not going to give you a very high change of your music being listened too widely.
One thing you might want to consider is looking at options other than sites that cater only for uploading music. YouTube is the obvious one, but that does mean adding a visual element to the music too. Other options are to look at live performance. Not necessarily playing gigs, but maybe getting something commissioned - music for film, theater, art installations, write songs for other people, etc. Another thing is to start networking - make contacts in the music business and anything where music plays a part. Write a resume, set up a LinkedIn profile, get Twitter followers.
Really it's a case of doing as much of everything you can, but just uploading to music sites alone is not going to give you a very high change of your music being listened too widely.
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- KVRAF
- 6895 posts since 9 Mar, 2003 from the bridge of sighs
you might want to post a link ...noxial wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:04 am Hello. My name is Miguel, and I have been an artist for at least 10 years. I prominently create electronic music; I am what you could call a "Bedroom Producer", even though I have a specified area for music production, and use professional equipment (not too much though, I'm not made of money).
In the past I was somewhat misguided, not knowing where I could put my music on, but eventually I started posting it on Soundcloud. Recently I started posting it Bandcamp as well, which is much better for smaller artists.
The thing is, smaller artists get plays, but I get nothing.
I believe that if you have good music, you get plays (and some advertising doesn't hurt). On soundcloud, music I have uploaded months ago hasn't even got a single play (there's a song with 400+ plays but that's bot bulls**t), and when there's any sort of play or like, it's a bot account.
So I've been asking myself "Is my music THAT bad no one wants to hear it?". Maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to people who read this topic. I will leave a dropbox link to my songs. This isn't a promotion, nor it is a request to "check out my stuff". I just want a somewhat public consensus on what my music sounds like, because even getting feedback is a tough job. You can download it if you want, just please don't steal it, as it's already published.
If most people like it, then please teach me how to advertise it so more people can hear it. I don't care about making money (my paypal is not configured on purpose), I just want people to listen to my music and enjoy it, while sharing it with others. To be perfectly honest, however, I'm not against making money with my music, but it's not my main objective.
Thank you for spending your time reading this, and listening, it's very appreciated.
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- KVRAF
- 11000 posts since 15 Apr, 2019 from Nowhere
Yes, add that to things that will help people to hear your music...
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- KVRian
- 1342 posts since 8 May, 2018 from Sweden
I think promoting your music is absolutely essential if you want to get plays. Without promotion/advertising, nobody knows that your song even exists, so they can't tell whether it's bad or amazing. There are literally millions of tracks on sites like SC and BC, so the chance of your song getting played randomly by some algorithm or discovered by accident is absolutely minuscule. You have to make more people aware that the music exists in order for them to listen to it.noxial wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:04 am I believe that if you have good music, you get plays (and some advertising doesn't hurt). On soundcloud, music I have uploaded months ago hasn't even got a single play (there's a song with 400+ plays but that's bot bulls**t), and when there's any sort of play or like, it's a bot account.
So I've been asking myself "Is my music THAT bad no one wants to hear it?".
Take a single oscillator, producing a drone. Send it to the wave shaper, altering the tone.
This can be a triangle, Sawtooth or a square. Modulate the pulse width, nobody will care
This can be a triangle, Sawtooth or a square. Modulate the pulse width, nobody will care
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- Banned
- 2288 posts since 24 Mar, 2015 from Toronto, Canada
Two things OP.
1. no. Your music is not "bad". There is no " bad" music. There is just music you like and don't like.
2 . You need to be aware that every (and any ) talented (and untalented!) goof and his mother can spent a few hundred bucks and start making and releasing music and hope to find someone who will listen . So you and your music are wallowing in that sort of environment. Meaning no one knows that you exist and can't be bothered to give two seconds time to listen to you because they are too busy listening to stuff that is already familiar to them or listening to music that is being promoted and blasted at them on media and social media .
3. Money. don't count on your music making money. The money is being made by the people that own the pipeline and the labels. If you want to make money, better start learning how to play live and entertain. I have discovered a shit load.of.new.young artists in last decade. But I have probably given them combined less than $50 out of my own pocket because I am sure the streamers keep the majority of subscription fees.
1. no. Your music is not "bad". There is no " bad" music. There is just music you like and don't like.
2 . You need to be aware that every (and any ) talented (and untalented!) goof and his mother can spent a few hundred bucks and start making and releasing music and hope to find someone who will listen . So you and your music are wallowing in that sort of environment. Meaning no one knows that you exist and can't be bothered to give two seconds time to listen to you because they are too busy listening to stuff that is already familiar to them or listening to music that is being promoted and blasted at them on media and social media .
3. Money. don't count on your music making money. The money is being made by the people that own the pipeline and the labels. If you want to make money, better start learning how to play live and entertain. I have discovered a shit load.of.new.young artists in last decade. But I have probably given them combined less than $50 out of my own pocket because I am sure the streamers keep the majority of subscription fees.
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