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.
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