Thursday, 2 April 2015

Methods Of Crowdfunding For Musicians

By Iva Cannon


It is indeed a gamble to produce an album, a song, a music video, or any project relating to music. You are not certain if you will be received by a great deal of music lovers. In addition, it is very difficult to produce financially and to get people you can trust to help you with the promotion and all that is needed to be done. It could reach to a point of frustrations and disappointments. Thus, there is a need to really prepare for this physically, psychologically, and mentally.

Creating the music is all fun and very interesting but it is not all that. Musicians often have really marketable outputs but they do not know exactly where to get funds to get them going. There are very gifted ones who remain underground and independent. At the same time, unknown and unheard. That is why most of the desperate oned resort to crowdfunding for musicians.

But crowdfunding is found to be complicated as well. There is no certainty that there will be sufficient funds that an artist can actually generate from this technique. There are always drawbacks to every option but many are willing to take the risk just to reach that dream. If you are talented and charming enough to get support from a considerable crowd, you might as well have a chance.

Some of the most effective ways to do this is through the internet. Musicians promote their piece in crowdfunding sites. These are established by fellow musicians and others are affiliated with record labels. The only thing you need to do is make more music, upload them to the site, generate comments, and wait for people to contact you and pledge their support.

But others do not need crowdfunding just to be recognized and get funded. There are many other different means to grab attention from record labels. A very classic way of doing it is through posting videos on social networking sites like YouTube yourself. If you gain a lot of views, there is a possibility that you will make it big.

If you are lucky enough, you will get to choose from different labels that simultaneously offer you to be their musician officially. As always, there will be people who will support you throughout your career but you will also need to prepare yourself from haters and bashers. This is the typical atmosphere of music making through social networking sites.

Walk of the Earth made it big when they made a Gotye cover. Five persons in one guitar was the main theme they showcased. It gained an incredible reception from millions of viewers. Christina Grimmie, on the other hand, made it to the finals of The Voice USA. One of the proposed reasons for her success was that she was already an online sensation.

Pleasing people is something that you must not focus as a star because you will never get to please everybody. There will always be people who will hate your every song and every appearance that you will make in the lime light. So focus on the fans instead.

But getting this status is never enough. A first record success is still very risky. Some artists even end up becoming a one hit wonder. In order to prevent this, the quality of songs must always be put into consideration.




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