Music endeavors that every musician needs to do

Hey everyone! So today, I’ve compiled a “bucket list” of things that you need to do as a musician in your lifetime. 

Some of you might or might not agree with the statements that I’m about to make, However, this is just something to have fun and make open discussion about. 

In reality, there are a million things that a musician could do in order to really live their life as a musician. 

Before we go any further, let’s pray about all of the things in our lives. 

At this time, I would like all of us to take a moment of silence and pray for all of the things in our lives. Pray that God will help us to become the best musician possible. Take a minimum of 5 minutes and pray for all of the things in your lives. 

Now back to the show

*** This list is not in any particular order.****

Make a demo

Recording your music in a professional recording studio has got to be something that every musician dreams of. 

However, as of recently, it’s never been CHEAPER, and EASIER to record your own music with the advancements in technology. 

I know that maybe in the past it took a lot in order to record and produce a full length studio album. 

However, microphones, DAW’s, hardware, software, skills have all become easily accessible to the modern musician. 

But not just that, recording studios see that people can access all of these things easily so they have reduced the costs of all of their studio times including hiring engineers to record your sound! 

Personally me, I have recorded for 2 hours in a professional, sound proof, platinum award winning studio for just 45 dollars an hour! That’s a steal

And that’s not all! It came with a sound engineer! So for 90 dollars total, If I wanted to record 10 songs, I could’ve done it.

I only recorded one song though, however, that sound engineer made it sound SO GOOD! It sounded professional! 

He gave me a rough mix, and even though I couldn’t hear all of the nuances of what a great professional recorded song should sound like, it sounds WAY BETTER, than the home recorded songs that I’ve made. 

Like it literally sounds like something out of your favorite records. 

So, record your demo, you gotta do that! 

Sell your album

I know this one is a little harder than the rest of them, but selling your music is absolutely critical to becoming the musician that you’ve always wanted to be. 

Sell your music through the internet! It’s never been a better time to be a musician than the one that we’re doing it right now. 

I mean I know that people can steal your music on the internet, but us as independent, unsigned artists can only dream of the kind of power at our fingertips through the internet. 

I mean Distrokid and CD baby are great ways that you can CHEAPLY put your music on the internet. You can put it on Apple Music, Spotify, and any other music streaming platforms. It’s so cool!

I know what you’re saying, “But German, How can we get people to actually BUY our music?”

Well you…

Promote your music

Some people say that the glory days of music are long gone. Some people say that you can’t live off of music anymore. Some people complain and complain about the music industry and yet there are still MILLIONAIRES in the music industry. 

There’s one thing in making great songs and you can thrive off of those things and it would help you IMMENSELY, if you could write your own hits. 

However, it’s impossible to get a million people looking at your music if you never tell anyone about it. 

For this reason, we need to start our own avenue for spreading the word of our music. 

In this day and age it’s nearly IMPOSSIBLE, to not share your music with someone. 

I mean, I could probably look at my friends list on facebook and see that each one of my friends on average has got at least 500 friends on facebook.

And what happens if you decided to make music and share it with the world? You could easily do that just by hitting the share button on your facebook feed. 

However, it doesn’t just stop there. 

To actually promote a product takes more dedication and work than just simply hitting the share button. In reality if you were to share your music to your friends on facebook. You might get 15 likes, some people commenting on it, and maybe 5 sales.

However, even that would be kind of rare. 

No, what you need to do is to build a buzz about your music. You need people to be blogging about you and your music. You need people to be talking about your message and your visions. Etc. etc. 

And there are a few ways that you can do that. 

I often PREACH that you need a blog for your music. 

However, why is that?

Because it’s a simple formula to gain followers on your blog, get views, gain influence, and develop a buzz around you. 

It’s like this

Write more in your blog = more views

More views = more people following you

Therefore, you write more often when you want more views and followers. 

It really is that simple… and not simple at the same time. 

If you follow the above formula for yourself, it will almost always work. I can’t guarantee that it will work because nothing is certain in life. 

However, when I first started to write in my blog, on the first day, I wrote non stop for a few hours, and I got 10 views that day.

That was on my first day blogging! I then realized that, that would burn me out easily, so I slowed down the pace and concentrated more on the “long game” 

In case you don’t know, “the long game” is a phrase that we use in chess. It’s when you play the chess game all the way until all of the pieces are nearly off the table. It’s when you’ve finished the game. Sometimes players like to play the “short game” and that’s when they try and finish fast because it puts a lot of pressure on the other person, which makes them susceptible to making mistakes. 

However, The long game is a mind trick on it’s own. What happens is that if you play the long game, you force the other person to slow it down. And that messes with their game. Short game players feel pressure when you start looking all over the board and seeing all of the mistakes that they’re doing and it in turn puts pressure on them. 

In reality it’s the appropriate way to play chess. 

Back to the blog, be like the long game player! 

What happens is that even if you decide that you’re going to work diesel on your blog from the start and work at it for 6 hours a day every day, you’re still going to have to wait a LONG TIME before all of that work starts to yield fruits! 

I have heard stories of how people started a blog and worked 60 hours a week on the blog from the start, and they started to get paid within a year! However, that’s extremely rare and I’ve read their stories, they were desperate for money and all they had time to do was work. 

The common folk can’t do that! 

The common folk usually has a job or two, a family, friends, college, other commitments! And if they don’t have those commitments, then they usually don’t have the drive to be able to pull off a stunt like working in a blog for 60 hours a week while maintaining their job. 

So what I recommend is a little different than everyone else, but it is working for me and I know it will work a lot. 

When you first start out, start by writing in your blog for 20 minutes a day, every day. 

Either way, you’re going to be doing this for a few years before anyone starts to pay you for it so you might as well not get burned out. 

Around the 6th month, start to increment it slowly, maybe work on your blog for 40 minutes to an hour.

(by the way I did the above and I got 120 views on the 6th month of me working on that blog.) 

Okay, I’m not going to lie, there were some days where I was feeling adventures and I would write for an hour, but most of the time, I was writing 20 minutes a day. 

Around the year mark, increase that. I personally increased it to 3 hours every day. 

Right now, I have been writing in my blog for a year and a half, and I write in it around 4 hours a day. 

And guess what?

I’m getting good results. 

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I sure hope that I have been an inspiration and a hope to you all. Please pray, read your bible, go to church, and love God above all else. Like, comment, share, subscribe, and I will see you all next time. 

If you want to go to heaven, then believe in Jesus and you will go to heaven. 

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next time. 

German Gonzalez, signing out!