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Independent Artist Website – a game of musical hats
I would like the fight to make it in music business to a game of musical chairs until it dawned on me that there was too much sitting down and you'd never get anywhere. You also had to go around in circles, there is a big waste of time and effort – plus it's probably something you do too much of already, which is why you read articles like this in the first place.
Forget The Clowns, Bring in hats
If your music or (God forbid) your day job does not make you enough money to pay for professional help, you will have to handle as much biz as you can, with help from your band members, your family, your friends, and, oh, all you have ever met, and most of all, you must meet with from now on. No matter how many songs in your repertoire, you will be a one-note song now, henceforth and forever. It's about your art, your craft, and music. If the persons you are closest to you is not tell you that all you need is to talk about your music and your career, are you enough not to talk about your music and your career enough.
And if some new person appears to can help you move even a fraction of a step further down the road, you have to talk myself up. Perhaps this guy who signed your website guestbook is a graphical target = "_blank"> Independent artist who will make your CD cover for tickets, maybe this lady on your gig is an acoustic engineer who will diagnose your recording room for a good homemade meal, maybe the local radio DJ will interview you and your band for, oh, one of your sisters, homemade dishes.
Do I sound cynical? I'm not really. It's just that you have to be realistic. You probably will not be discoveredor luck out somehow and get a record deal. As all good (or valuable) in life, it takes time and tireless devotion to get anywhere in the music biz. Calvin Coolidge, a president who seemed public finances, henchmen stumble right into the Depression, was still plenty insightful, and he said a truism about success that is so good many people attribute it to Abraham Lincoln:
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not believe that the world is full of educated derelict. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Then you press. There are a million things to do, but first things first. Take one step at a time. You can get back to demos and Internet distribution and all that later – and at least that lets me stretch what I have to say in a series.
If ever you start to doubt to say, by the way, just remember where it came from: Calvin Coolidge. Regarding renewable trumping talent, he is living proof.
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Tammy Rose – We provide marketing and promotional services to clients seeking exposure in the music business. We provide Independent Artist and labels with the means to service their records to industry insiders and potential new fans.
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