I don't know of a single producer that doesn't want to be crushing it on Spotify, but sadly about 90% of them aren't crushing it at all... The vast majority of producers are feeling down on themselves and frustrated to the point of wanting to quit on their dreams... this is beyond unacceptable to me.
Dawphobia: Why You’re Not Making Music As Much As You’d Like Let’s be real – opening the DAW is scary. Whenever we as producers think about making music, we encounter this force that stops us from doing just that. Author Steven Pressfield calls it ‘the resistance’. Writer James Clear calls it ‘friction‘.
Ever watched a movie called The Founder? It’s a biographical drama about Ray Kroc, the man who turned McDonald’s into an empire. One of the keys to his success was process management and workflow. In other words, “How fast can we get something out the door and into the customer’s hands.”
I've been making music as a full-time career for a little over 6 years now, and I wouldn't have been able to do it without reading/listening to these 12 books. I hope you'll take the time to invest in your mind, so that you can live the life that you want to be living in the very near future! Note: I strongly recommend
#1: Scribble on the piano roll This might sound really dumb at first, but hear me out. Music theory and songwriting skills are good tools to have, but sometimes you need to throw some paint on the canvas and work from there. To do this, you basically just load up an instrument (a piano normally works well for this)
1. Understand that attaining any level of success isn’t easy. It takes work. 2. Dive in and be inspired by an array of different kinds of music, it’ll be overwhelming but helpful in the long run. 3. Listen to different kinds of music. Even music you don’t particularly like. 4. Analyze your favorite artist’s work...
Level 1: Complete Nobody You’ve just started making music, or you’re stepping into a new genre/ scene that you’re not known in... or maybe you’ve been making music for a while and you’ve decided it’s time you started your artist project. Either way – you don’t have the street cred. If you have previous experience
What you’ll learn in this article This article contains 15 tips that will actually help you, if you put in the time and effort. They aren’t going to make you the next Calvin Harris or Rihanna, but if your music is good, these tips will take you to the next level. The first five tips are on how to think about music mark
1. Save a copy of your most successful project and use it as a template. Open up one of your best projects from the past, save as, and just delete the midi and vocals but keep the drums, fx, etc. as a template to get you started on your next track. 2. Tweak your best midi files. You can use an old melody you made...
Making a career out of music is a dream for most music producers, but it seems so out of reach for most... And not to mention that there is so much you ‘should’ be doing, and as a result, you’re not sure what to focus on or disregard. To help, here are some of my favorite tips I’ve come up with over the years.
In the music streaming community one of the often-overlooked components to success is your own personality. In the EDM space, this is even more essential. How many times have you listened to an artist even more than before after seeing a video or story with them? I know I have many times. In fact, the science behind it...
This 10 page step-by-step guide is guaranteed to increase stream counts for all of your upcoming Spotify releases! These 15 sure-fire secrets have earned us over 35 million streams! Do you want your tracks signed to the best electronic labels? Do you want your tracks added to more Spotify playlists? Get this now.
If you’re an artist, educating yourself about the music business and music marketing is extremely important. Marketing is more important than anything else you do as an artist... aside from making great music. In this post I’ll give you a top down overview of music marketing, along with a bunch of practical tips.
The VOKAAL Team did a deep statistical dive into the Top 1000 songs on Spotify to find out what exactly all these hits songs have in common… and now this mind-blowing hit making knowledge is all yours, check out these crazy hit making statistics!
As an artist, you may not realize it, but you and your name are nothing short of being a brand. Just like a business, you can't succeed without spreading awareness. Living in the technology age, the amount of oppurtunities for expanding your brand are plentiful. With the amount of streaming platforms to host your music
Have you ever wondered what the person next to you at the gym was listening to? FitRated set out to answer that question with their latest study. FitRated's study surveyed over 1,000 people across the United States to figure out exactly what people were listening to that gave them a little inspiration while exercising.
1. Don’t become a slave to fashion When you’re creating, the worst thing you can do is think about what sounds are currently in fashion. The best way to think about it is that all of us resonate to different types of noises, frequencies and textures of sound.
What is Toplining? Toplining is writing a vocal part over an instrumental track that's already been created. Its most popular in the genres of EDM, Pop, R&B and Rap. It's a different approach to traditional songwriting in the sense that you’re writing a melody and lyric for a piece of music that's already been made...
When Lil Nas X dropped out of college to pursue a career in music, he wasn't creating much in the way of musical content... Instead he hung out on Twitter, making friends while gaining popularity by posting memes. His meme tweets earned him about 50,000 followers over the span of a couple years
First things first... What is a Topline Vocal? A Topline Vocal or ( Topline ) is a vocal melody and lyrics that is written and recorded on top of a backing instrumental track that has already been created. Now that we've got that out of the way, let's dive in and make some awesome Topline Vocals!
10,000 followers on Spotify will change your career. Getting followers and Spotify playlist promotion is on everybody’s mind. Just a few years ago most influencers, music promoters, venues, radio stations, and brands wanted to know how many social media followers an artist had.
A quick search of the web for music promotion gets you tons of advertisements. As a result, it reinforces the idea that music promotion is expensive and you must pay for it... but it’s simply not true. Music promotion services range from independent radio promotion, freelance PR, to online tools that'll help you build
In reality there’s no magic formula for how to come up with an artist name... but to save you some time, I’ve asked 100 accomplished artists for their advice. Many of you have probably looked at an artist name generator with no success. Yup, naming your musical baby can be quite a difficult and frustrating experience…
Does anybody have time to read 5 music industry books right now? Not likely.. but maybe ya can find a bit of time to read the good ones. I’ve gone ahead and weeded out the time wasters for you. It’s super important to understand the workings of the music industry, it’s even more important to understand classic business
Wanna know what's under the hood of the rocket ship that is Spotify? Well, the team at vokaal.com collected some super sexy Spotify stats for your information and enjoyment... Enjoy!
Successful artists know how to release music without rushing. Abraham Lincoln wisely said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” If you don’t setup your releases properly, you'll miss out on many of the opportunities available to you. Bookmark this page.
