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.
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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
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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.
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