How to make your music popular? (Discussion)
Here I want to discuss about it.
What route do you think is the best way to be popular? This is very good topic to discuss.
What I should do to make popular my music? Is good idea to take my music to internet, or play live concerts firstly?
So, if I choose taking music to internet, I've got small chance to be somebody popular. Why? It's easy. Internet is full of a lot of different music. When I share some score, it lose beetwen everything another, and only single person find it and listen.
If I choose play concerts, I must studying in music school, what take a lot of time, and I should start music education over a dozen years ago. Many people thinks so isn't possible to somebody will be popular without music education.
What about me? I'm 17 years old. I play the piano well, for example I can play all of Jarrod Radnich's music, but I wasn't in music school. I play the piano only 4 years and I'm learnig apart of music school. I create some good scores. I took them to the internet for example here on MuseScore forum, on official MuseScore page and some places yet. And what?
Almost no one listen to it, but my friends thinks, so my music is cool.
I took some music to forum "Made with MuseScore, and every hasn,t any answer.
This is very strange for me, but I accept it.
My score on MuseScore official page is loosing beetwen another sheets. Look for views of it:
First day - 65 wievs
Second day - 65 wievs
Third day - 24 wievs
Today - 3 wievs
It hasn,t any chance to be popular and I accept it.
My friend writes great music, but he had similar situation. I think, so some great people are loosing beetwen another things.
What do you think?
What route do you think is the best way to be popular? How to do that?
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The majority of popular musicians have no special formal training. It's mostly in classical and to a somewhat lesser extent in jazz where that is more common. Certainly, there is no requirement that you have formal training in music in order to play in public. You just have to be reasonably good, how you got that way doesn't matter.
So the simplest answer to your question: the way to be popular is to:
a) create the *type* of music that lots of people like (sorry, no classical or jazz)
b) create it well enough that people will like *your* music more than most other music of that type
c) do whatever it takes to get it music heard - that includes both exposure on the internet and also playing it in public
If you don't already play well enough for anyone to hire you to play in public, start working on that. Or finding someone else to play your music. No one gets popular through writing music and then having people listen to computer playback of those compositions.
I would suggest you work on your performance and tout yourself around your local area pushing for places to play.
Once people start hearing you in your local area, hopefully you will develop a fanbase from which you can form an internet presence and hopefully widen the fanbase.
To begin with don't play too much of yoiur own music, stick to mainly covers of other artists and just throw in the odd piece you have written yourself.
Once people start to like your own compositions you can start to use more of them, and produce mp3s to publish on the internet.
If you are really lucky you eventually may get noticed by a recording company and given a chance to make it bigtime.
In reply to I would suggest you work on by ChurchOrganist
Another way of promoting your music is to make good quality video recordings of your performance then upload to YouTube - these recordings should be the sort of music that people will share with others. Search for young musicians like "Sungha Jung" and "Sandra Bae" - both fingerpicking guitarists. I discovered them on YouTube and watch their video clips.
Sungha has released 2 CDs which can be purchases from his web site.
Music like any art form needs an audience, so look for every opportunity to perform your music to the public - your future audience.
Good luck!
Charles
Why is it important that your music be popular? That is an even better topic to discuss. :-)
If no one ever heard your music, would you still create it?
- Jeff
In reply to The real question is... by Jeff Jetton
Your post gave me a different perspective on the original question. I assumed he wanted it to be popular so he could make a career by writing/performing music but maybe he just wants to cover the world with his music.
Of course, many, many, many people start out with the career plan but realize that it is difficult to make a good living in the music business especially if you want to have what is considered a normal life. I could get on a soapbox and tell him that if making a living via music is the goal then be sure to get enough education so he has something to revert to if it doesn't work out. Most of the people I know who make some money from music have other jobs too.
Live your dream but realize there are limits.
In reply to The real question is... by Jeff Jetton
No one has heard my music so far, but I keep on with it for my own amusement and satisfaction. The same goes for my writing efforts. Very little of my writing has appeared in print, but if I had written in hopes of royalties, approval or even of being understood, my writing would have come to a standstill many years ago.
Creative people approach their art in various ways. It all depends on their priorities regarding the need to create, the need to be noticed or appreciated, the need to earn a living, etc. etc. In his later years, the composer Frederick Delius had lost interest in the music marketplace, but he still felt the urge to compose. Eric Fenby, his amanuensis, wrote the following about Delius' wife Jelka:
"Jelka had always striven to urge the claims of her husband's work, writing countless letters to conductors, upbraiding publishers, continually exerting every pressure and every influence she could muster to achieve her one objective in life. Delius was supposed to be kept in ignorance of these 'thunder letters' (as she used to call them), although he had an inkling all the same, and scolded her severely when things came to light."
That was from "Eric Fenby Remembers Delius and Grez-sur-Loing"
(Music and Musicians magazine, 1974)