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Participant“Hi, I am Glenn, I am 18 and just getting into DJ-ing and producing. My heroes are Armin and Hardwell. I would love to make Trance music.”
YOU STOLE MY DESCRIPTION!!
Anyway, Glenn. Check out REAPER: http://www.reaper.fm/
If you pit in the time to learn the stuff, it is sure to last you for long no matter what kind of music you make. It’s what I started with, and to be honest, it’s one of the best DAWs out there. Even with the other “paid-for” ones.
But your DAW should be your personal preference and others can only give suggestions. Make sure you try out different ones and see what works for you.
Participant“But be sure that it is “work” in the sense that it requires a conscious effort and some serious time. I am not saying do less producing, but definitely do more PR! And try to play out, play out and play out some more.”
Okay 🙂
@Scott Have a look: http://forum.anjunabeats.com/topic/63756-trance-labels-updated-2013/page-2“I think the answer to your question is all over the place. Labels all do different things and take different percentages. I make less than 40% on my latest song per sale, etc. but it’s so worth it. I have no time or interest in marketing, or cold calling people, trying to make connections already made by the labels that have made a name for themselves. If it was an up and comer label, I would definitely not not sign over rights of ownership to them. In fact, even if its a big name label, I say almost always go for exclusive license to administrate (<–that’s the keyphrase) rights of ownership. And put a low limit on it if its a lower label to light a fire under them. Like if they don’t produce 10k for you in 10 years, the license expires.”
When I asked a question about 3 months back, that’s the answer I got from Lyteside, who is a member of the EDM group Delta-S. I didn’t really understand him then, I just thought that that was the same kind of situation I was in.
ParticipantI’ve seen loads of new producers commenting: “Hey, nice track! check out mine too and subscribe! : http://www.somestupidstuff.com/iamaspammer “
ParticipantWell, I just read your post Scott. But I’m not sure how I can entirely relate to it.
@DJ Vintage: I know some people who made great music and then promoted it and then got so involved in promotion that they stopped making music completely, and turned into social media freaks. It’s not a headache, but it’s not what I want to dedicate most of my time also. I just want to be a fair distance away from it and more towards the music.And as for promotion, what I want to know is: What exactly is the “hard work” they did. Obviously they didn’t just make music and wait for it be heard, as you say. But I don’t want to be the guy who goes around Youtube and spams other videos either.
ParticipantThe general thought here being that you love what you do so much that you can’t help but wanting to share it with the world. They didn’t just sit in their rooms creating tracks, but they worked hard to make sure they were able to be out there playing so they could play it for their audiences, have their work heard. And if the world likes what you do, they will eventually pick up on it.
I want to know what “hard work” they did.
ParticipantHey all!
I haven’t read your post Scott, I’ve only read the one by Vintage so I’ll answer him before I’m off for school.
A record label is an organization which take your music and distribute it throughout the stores. And of course, take some of the profits [actually MOST of the profits]. For them to earn more, they’ll be the one who’ll ensure that people buy my music. And that’s what my objective is.
Depending on the label, you can have contracts like 20%-80% [where the label takes 80% or so]. The end result being that it is them who’ll take up the headache of promotion of your music.
As for your SEO idea [searching for “best edm DJ”], I assume that the first result will be the DJ Mag top 100 poll. I’m not sure, and correct me if I’m wrong but I doubt anyone will be able to occupy that space.
ParticipantMmm.. Not very encouraging. Paying is not an option as I don’t earn money myself. And the thing is: I don’t think I’ll need to do the maintenance work you say. All I need is to get to the top once, stay there till I can get signed to a record label, and voila! They promote my music, and in turn promote me. Job done!
That’s broadly what I’m aiming to do. Besides, once I get decent enough, my fans and followers will act as online promoting agents. And then I’ll just let my music do the thing: For me ultimately its the music that matters and not the online presence, if your music is decent, then your online presence will come to you as a bonus.
ParticipantThere was a company called Hardwell that existed even before the dude. But he was able to overtake the company and dominate the web. If he can do it, so can I. There’s a way to do anything and everything. All I need are a few fingers pointing me in the direction I need to go, how I handle the path is up to me.
Make no mistake, I CAN and I WILL do it. No matter how hard it seems.
To the company if they’re reading this: I mean no offence to you guys, I only wish my own success.
ParticipantThanks Scott, I’ll keep those tips in mind.
For me, offline promo isn’t a problem. I can handle that quite okay. But I’m still not sure on what to do for this:
“What I want is, to tell people to look for Tonecraft online [obviously they’ll look on google] and find me on the top.”
I want to see myself on the top of the search results in google when searched for “Tonecraft”.
ParticipantYou find 4 channels confusing because you haven’t used them with a controller. Trust me, once you have all the faders and buttons in front of you, its not as daunting as it seems on the computer screen.
Get a 4-channel controller, you won’t regret it.
ParticipantUse wordpress.com that’s a free site which helps you make and host your own site, and it’s pretty much free for your usage.
I use it free of cost. Here’s an example of my site and I made that using wordpress without spending money: https://www.djtonecraft.wordpress.com
You can choose a theme, modify the text, make new pages and basically do most of the things a website can do for free.
I hope I helped,
TonecraftJanuary 18, 2015 at 8:17 am in reply to: How can I avoid getting 'bogged down' with organising my music? #2123781ParticipantI haven’t played anywhere longer than an hour, and I have only played about 5 gigs. I don’t take requests because I don’t have a vast enough collection to keep up with it. Most requests come for Martin Garrix and Hardwell only so yeah..
But I’m always on the hunt for new music. Sometimes I ask an artists directly if he can give me a single for free, then I’ll maybe remix it for him or play it in my sets.. which works pretty good too.
LOL We’ve gone off-topic here 🙂
ParticipantSpot on Scott! To be frank, 50K is just a number. Everything that helps me sell more music and land me more gigs is helpful. Chances are, I’ll maybe be in the right place at the right time and maybe get my first big break or something..
January 17, 2015 at 4:58 pm in reply to: How can I avoid getting 'bogged down' with organising my music? #2123681ParticipantBy “concentrate on my DJing” I meant pretty much everything from mixing to effects to track selection.
As for choosing the right tunes: I have only 1GB of music. Yep, that’s right only 1GB, because I cannot afford to keep buying tunes and then sorting them. I only buy a track if I’m absolutely 100% in love with it. Thats why my music collection isn’t big but I’m proud of it and it has only the best music.
Concentrating on DJing includes finding which tracks go well together too..
ParticipantMmmm.. I haven’t delved much into setting a fixed number of followers. But I personally consider 50000 followers [in total] to be “getting my name out there”.
As of today, a DJs website doesn’t really have that much of a value and, to be honest, most of the DJs just have their website for the sake of formality. The website is “just there” to link everything back at a single place. But the main hub is my Facebook page.
Lets just disregard the above conversation for a moment: Now lets just say, I’ve made a FB page, a website,a twitter account and a soundcloud account. I have linked across all of them and I’ve made sure they all interconnect each other. I have posted reasonably decent content on all the profiles and pages.
What next? Do I only have to wait till people find me, or should do something else too?
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