5 Tips For Playing Live For The First Time

Playing live is an experience that can be nerve-wracking, intense, and a highly-charged experience. So it’s really important to make sure that you harness and use these feelings in a positive way, to your advantage. 

The list below offers tips, advice, and things to consider to ensure that your first experience playing live goes as smoothly as possible. This means you can focus and put your energies into performing well and having fun, not into worry and anxiety.

You’ll notice that every tip in the list begins with the word ‘prepare’. This is because preparation is the key to success in this area. Preparation brings confidence, certainty, self-assurance, readiness, and everything else important in playing live as well as you can. So get ready!

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How To Get A Gig Playing A Wedding

While some couples hire DJs for their weddings, others choose to stick with a live band, which is great news for you. Playing at weddings is a lucrative business, one that may land you many more gigs. However, landing your first ceremony or reception can be difficult if you’ve never done one before. How exactly do you go about doing it? 

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Overcoming Your Former Self: Becoming A New Musician Through High Self-Esteem

When analyzing the driving factor behind your decisions, there is one common denominator that many people overlook: self-esteem. Self-esteem is a reflection of your perceived value. If you do not have a positive self-image, your motivation to achieve great things diminishes. Because of this, it is important to work on empowering yourself to better actionize your goals.

People suffering from low self-esteem are probably wondering “where do I start?” in regards to feeling worthy. The key to improving self-esteem is to gradually take steps towards repairing a negative self-image. Over time, these seemingly small steps will become a habit and create a greater self-worth.

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How To Avoid Cliches With Your Visual Branding

When it comes to branding the easy option is always to go for what everyone else does, blend in with the crowd, make sure people definitely know what you’re all about in the most obvious way. You’re a metal band, put a skull on the cover, job done! Well, not on my watch.

It’s lazy. And now that your branding is just like everyone else, you become part of the grey goo pumped out onto the internet on a daily basis. So here some ideas to avoid cliches with your branding. And why it’s vital.

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MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: Starting Your Own Label & More

• Magnolia Potter  | Tips For Starting Your Own Record Label
• M Banks | Going On Tour? Schedule Some Days Off
• Efa Etoroma  | 7 Fun, Free Apps For Musicians At Home
• Bronwyn MC | Alternative Ways To Make Money From Home - Become A Music Composer

Tips For Starting Your Own Record Label

The music industry has undergone some transformation over the last couple of decades. Our digital landscape has been instrumental in altering the shape of how we consume tunes, how artists make music, and how the business operates. One of the positive effects is encouraging a DIY approach to all areas of the industry.

This means that there is a propensity for musicians to have direct access to audiences. They can release their music via streaming platforms such as YouTube and Spotify rather than rely upon the costly physical media that has dominated the industry This also presents openings for entrepreneurs who want to start their own indie labels. 

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Going On Tour? Schedule Some Days Off

Deciding to take your band on its first tour is incredibly exciting. You get to plan where you’ll perform, how you’ll interact with your fans and what you’ll do on off days. Speaking of which, make sure you schedule a few days of downtime. It’ll help you rest, recover and even network. 

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7 Fun (And Free) Apps Musicians Can Use To Remain Creative At Home

Guest post by Efa Etoroma. This article originally appeared on Soundfly’s Flypaper.

Over the last several years, dozens of apps have emerged to help musicians stay creative while they’re on the go. These applications provide multi-track recording, synths, drum machines, DJ apps to pitch correction and AutoTune applications, in the compact format of a phone or tablet.

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Alternative Ways To Make Money From Home - Become A Music Composer

Need new ways to make money from music? A pandemic proof career you might have overlooked is composing from home, including making music for film, TV and video games. The demand for digital media is higher than ever before and so now you can future proof your career and enjoy a stable income. 

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MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: Activities For Artists On Lockdown & More

• MusicThinkTank  | 4 Achievable Activities For Artists On Lockdown 
• Boris But | Mixonset - Award-Winning Lazy DJ App
• Santanate Sant  | Chord Melodies
• Anica Oaks | 5 Musical Genres For Any Situation In Life

4 Achievable Activities For Artists On Lockdown

For those artists sheltering in place, it can often feel like there’s a great deal of pressure to be productive and make something out of all this ‘free time.’ Given the current state of affairs, however, many artists and musicians may not be in a mental or physical position where they can really tackle writing and recording the next Great American Record. Here, we look at a few more ‘bite-sized’ activities for homebound artists to try during these harrowing times.

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Mixonset - Award-Winning Lazy DJ App

Award-winning startup, Mixonset has launched their iOS app on the App Store, letting you instantly mix your Spotify playlists like a DJ.

Mixonset launched its AI DJ app on the App Store. Mixonset is the “app for lazy DJs” to instantly generate beat-matched music mixes wherever they go.

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Chord Melodies

Consider how to compose melodic parts based on which chord progression and which parts will be used in harmony. In order to make your melody sound as harmoniously as possible, interesting, there is one secret that you can use to get a more accurate mood in your tracks and arrangements you can use chord progression generator

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5 Musical Genres That Are Perfect For Any Situation In Life

We all enjoy different types of music for various reasons, whether it’s the way we’re brought up in families or the music preferred by friends. Although there are numerous types of musical genres that are popular throughout the world, many would agree that these five types go well in almost any aspect of life.

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