As a DIY musician, you have a broad variety of tasks and challenges at hand. Depending on the size of your team, you either push through most efforts by yourself or with slight backup. Either way, you…
Checklist for Preparing Music Subs
Having a fixed position within a musical project is great, but also invites certain responsibilities. The privilege of being called first goes hand in hand with the expectation of time and dedication.…
Staying Zen When Preparing Broad Music Releases
Music releases can be overwhelming at times. Especially when dealing with hindrances and unexpected bumps, this fluid process can turn into a formidable challenge quite easily. We want to show you way…
How Solid Musical Ideas Evolve Into Great Ones
Often, solid musical ideas loose their magic in the process. This has several reasons, sometimes the dynamic of a creative situation, sometimes just bad luck. To keep you on track when laying down new…
Pitching Your Music to Prospective Collaborators
Approaching and pitching prospective collaborators can pan out in various ways. Some artists hit it off right from the start, others have to climb through a rocky terrain to gain some kind of rapport.…
5 Hard Facts about Your A&R Meetings
A&R Meetings can be quite an exciting thing, but at its core it should always be a relaxed conversation between two interested parties. It’s a chance to learn a lot about the music industry …
4 Things That Scare off Tastemakers
Catering to tastemakers/influences can be a risky endeavor. No matter if you’re contacting blog editors, playlist curators or larger channel owners – things can definitely go downhill, and fast,…
Thoughts on Writing up Expressive Top-Lines
Working on expressive top-lines can be an exciting and playful endeavor. It doesn’t really matter if you’re writing top-lines from scratch or on an existing beat, certain mechanisms can be applied to …
Identifying the Artistic USP
Identifying your unique, artistic selling proposition, your artistic USP, can be a bewildering task. First of all – pure artistry and differentiated marketing analysis don’t really seem to slow-…
Why External Mixing (Still) Makes Sense
With a new wave of suberbly convenient software and smart services established online- and offline, it becomes easier and easier to keep the process of mixing in-house. Keeping it strictly DIY, you ca…