How to Get Your Music Heard on Facebook

How to Get Your Music Heard on Facebook

How to Get Your Music Heard Online

One you really know How to Get Your Music Heard by Playing live it will go a long way to maximising exposure for your band and material. The amount of music-lovers who attend gigs is generally on the rise and live shows are considered by many to be the most lucrative income stream for bands and solo acts in 2012.

For original artists in particular, once you've got people to your gigs you can obviously aim to sell your music and merchandise to them and so multiply the financial benefit of playing live. 

How to Get Your Music Heard "Offstage"

To be the kind of act that has a full diary of band bookings week in week out though, you'll need to know how to get your music heard before people see you live. For example, you need to have demos easily accessible by the people who make decisions about whether or not to book you for the venues you're targeting. 

This can still mean dropping off a demo CD but increasingly of course now means having your music available at those places online where venue bookers spend their time. 

These venue bookers are no different from anyone else and so a good proportion of their online time will involve Facebook. Imagine then if they could hear your demo without even leaving that site...

Knowing how to get your music heard by venue bookers for your potential gigs is only one benefit of this kind of "offstage" exposure. Especially if you play your own material - rather than covers.

Once you know how to get your music heard on Facebook and elsewhere online, you'll be able to build your fanbase both in terms of getting people to your band bookings and also buying your music -whether or not they ever go to one of your shows.

 

How to Get Your Music Heard and BOUGHT Online

There is a way you can create your own personalised mp3 music players and upload your music onto your own website, Facebook and even your Myspace profile (if you're one of the few who still goes there). In fact you can upload music players anywhere online the website in question will let you.

Songrila is site which offers you the ability to sell your music directly to your fans who get iPod compatible DRM free tracks purchased with just 2 clicks directly from your band's website.The site is free to register with no fees and and you can leave at any time.

The guys who've set up this cool service also take care of the payment processing, hosting and streaming of your songs and the processing of any collecting rights societies (MCPS, ASCAP, SACEM etc). You'll even get to keep 80% of the income you make from the sale of your material. Certainly a better deal than you'd expect from any record label methinks....

 

Band Booking Guide for Kindle

Gig-Getter Band Booking Guide Now on Kindle

Band Booking Now on Kindle

If you're looking for band booking how-to tips formatted specifically for your Kindle here's some good news.

Gig-Getter: Band Booking for Kindle

The ebook version is now newly available from Amazon in the US, Spain and Germany. You can buy and download from the US site via the link below.

 



If you're in the UK, the Amazon site there will have it available late August but if you don't want to wait you can obviously order the paperback at Amazon UK  or the Gig-Getter PDF ebook version via this site.

How To Get Your Music Heard

How to Get Your Music Heard Tips

If you think about it, the problem of how to get your music heard is the number one issue for any aspiring band or musician. Even when your act is established, building your fan base is all about exposing people to your music. If you can’t do this, how will you get people to buy what you write or play?

Band Booking and How to Get Your Music Heard

The website Live & Unsigned recently interviewed The Hoosiers, a band who struggled for over a decade (12 years to be precise) trying to get signed. They’re in the fortunate position know of being able to look back and reflect on what worked and what didn’t over the long term in order to answer the question of how to get your music heard.

As a band writing and playing their own material, they stress the quality of this material, the songs themselves as a major factor in whether a band makes it or not. In fact this is equally important for original acts and cover bands alike. No-one’s going to leave the house to go and   see a cover band show with material they’ve never heard of or which leaves them cold are they?

The Hoosiers stress the importance of gigging not just as one of the main solutions to how to get your band heard, but also to give you the “real buzz” which will keep your morale high as you strive to get that deal.  More than this though in the experience of a lot of the artists I work with, you can use playing band bookings in order to hone your songs. See what works and what doesn’t in front of your audiences and growing fan base. Fine-tune and adjust even parts of songs as you get live audience feedback. 

Gigging will of course, also “tighten” and perfect the performance your act ready for a “bigger stage” and help your cash-flow in the meantime..

 

How to Get Your Music Heard via a Band Booking Schedule

What about if you’re starting out or based in a small town where there are only very few live venues for band bookings? What do you then about the problem of how to get your music heard?
The Hoosiers recommend you play these few venues “mercilessly” so that you become “recognised” and “appreciated”.  You can also slowly and steadily expand further afield and do the same in the next town.  

 When you’ve done this and have perfected your live act via regular and frequent band bookings and built your gig crowd numbers – start to invite industry officials to come and hear you.

One final thought from the Hoosiers about how to get your music heard. They recommend “Battle of the Band” type bands bookings when you’re starting out. They point to the advice you can get form professionals on the panels at these sort of events about your look, your sound and your playing.
If you do the same you’ll find it can be very helpful to get your act in front of people who know more about bands and the music industry than you do.

Just make sure you can take their criticism -albeit most of it will be “constructive” anyhow.  If you do this, along with playing regular band bookings you can solve the number one challenge of how to get your music heard.

Live & Unsigned Article 

Band Booking Guides