So you now have your own style, written your songs and perfected your lyrics. What’s next? Rocking your audience’s brains out, of course! To deliver a memorable performance, this entails practice. And practice. And have I mentioned practice? This does not mean that you should force yourself to memorize everything that you will do on [...]
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Love Your Lyrics
Your songs’ lyrics are vital to the response you get from your audience. Be relevant when you’re writing, so that you will be able to connect with the people you are singing for. Do not waste your efforts on something which you would not be proud of when you hear it replayed. The best songs [...]
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Ruthlessness Pays
Okay, this does not mean being cutthroat and mean and going around torturing people and stuff. This means, be ruthless when it comes to your material and your standards. Experiment and see what genre you are most effective and sound best at, and when you find it, drive yourself to master it and to continually [...]
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AVANT GARDE
To be indie is to be different. To be indie is to deviate from the mainstream. To be indie is to stand out. So, in this age of youtube fanatics and countless Multiply and Facebook accounts which numerous bands have used to get their bands exposed to a wider audience, it pays to find other [...]
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BEING INDIE
The word indie comes from the word “independent”, and this is exactly what indie bands and indie music must strive to be in order to make it big in the fickle world of the music industry. Be independent in every possible way: in your clothing, in you lyrics, in your sounds, in the way you [...]
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Search Yourself (Part 2)
I know an artist who was started his career being a teacher. After one and a half year of teaching, he realized that he needs to satisfy himself by making his and producing his own music. So he dedicated his one whole year in fulfilling his own and ultimate dream of his life, to be [...]
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Search Yourself (Part 1)
If you want to be an indie artist, you must first search yourself. It is important to make sure if you want to indulge with this profession or field of music. Being a human, we need to live. To be able to live, we need to eat and to be sheltered. In the indie world, [...]
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“KAIZEN” (Part 2)
In the career of an artist, one of the difficult parts of his life is the initial stage wherein he must start from scratch. This is a risk for every artist who chose to dream big. There is no assurance that your song will click especially for the part of indie artist who usually produces [...]
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“KAIZEN” (Part 1)
Kaizen is a Japanese term which simply means, “small things will lead to big things”. I know many of you will definitely agree with this statement. This concept can be applied to almost all area of our life. But as for now, I will relate this concept to indie music scene. Indie artist ‘s small [...]
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Perseverance
Like any other artists, perseverance is one of the important keys in becoming a successful indie artist. Being an artist is not simple. Being an indie artist is more not simple. There in no artist who became famous overnight. It takes time, effort, money, and everything. Every day of indie artists is a challenge for [...]
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