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D R E A M B I G 01 Get all your info onto the world wide web so that it’s available to anyone who wants to Promoting your own music contact you--and pay your for your music! Add a blog so fans can get to know and in- teract with you, and an online shop can bring in some cash. 02 Make a few videos of you playing your songs and put them online, either on your website YOU’VE GOT A FEEL- or YouTube. Use social media to let your ING THAT YOUR SONG family, friends and fans know that the videos COULD BE A SMASHING are up and that they can watch them for free. SUCCESS, BUT YOU ALSO KNOW THAT IT WON’T EVER HAVE A CHANCE IF IT DOESN’T GET OUT THERE AND 03 Get your name out there by playing at clubs and community events for free. You can sell you items, hand out freebies to a few lucky people and give out fliers to everyone. While INTO THE HANDS--AND ON THE IPODS--OF PEO- PLE EVERYWHERE. HERE ARE THREE WAYS TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC TO POTENTIAL FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD: it won’t pay off immediately, it will eventually and it’s good karma. The likelihood of rejection is high, but you will both the musician and the listener feel good. es are you will always wonder learn how to respond to adversity and how to Many people use music to combat depression if you had what it takes to be exercise both tenacity and persistence. Often and anxiety, and it is used in various different successful. They say “what the most successful musicians aren’t nec- forms of therapy. The type of music you create doesn’t kill you makes you essarily those who have the most talent, but is something unique and no one else can of- stronger,” and pursuing music those who keep trying over and over. Lastly, fer the same thing. If you write off becoming a will almost certainly test that pursuing music is important because it makes musician without giving it an honest try, chanc- strength. 5 5 F E V E R M A G A Z I N E