Clear System for How to Get a Recording Contract?

You're about to discover how to get a recording contract with all of the hype and bull removed. The reality is that if your music is really good it should be comparatively easy to get a deal or music artist contract, so before going through this 5 day plan spend a large amount of time making sure your music is way better than all the other bands you play with...

Be honest with yourself and do not rest till you can safely say you merit the big bucks and promoting smarts a major label contract can offer.

I'm simply a standard guy doing music and placing it out there but I've read a complete heap of books on this subject and I wanted to share this method as it works and folks with real talent are using it each day to get a nice record company advance...

(Bear with me if you notice some typos :- )

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A few years back the most important thing that most musicians where attempting to find on google was "how it is possible to get a recording contract". But nowadays the more savvy musicians realize that you don't need the tons of money a big label can offer to make music your job. All you actually need is some killer tunes and the ability to put up a simple web site.

The problem I see now with the one hundred percent independent approach is that these new acts are absolutely ignoring the structure already set up in the music business and trying to do too much themselves.

Let the marketing experts market and let the chiefs manage, your job as a musician is to spend all your time making the best music out there. Use these new social media channels to build a stir so that you will start to work with the gigantic hitters and get signed to those major recording contracts that may put you on the next level.

My 5 Day How to Get a Recording Contract Plan = >

Lets begin...

Day 1 - Go to your local record shop and look up bands that you like most and that you think you sound similar too. Music business big-wigs who will be offering you the chance to get a recording contract like to stay with what they have signed before.

Day 2 - Look under the album jacket for the labels these band are signed to.

Day 3 - Get you manager to contact the A&R dept of the label and ask for a scout to come down and watch your show. ( Ensure the gig is nice and close to their offices and try and book it on a Thursday night as music folks don't like to go to gigs on the weekend for some unknown reason. )

You might need to do a little bit of chase up as these men get many calls a day from new bands trying hard to get signed. If you keep at it and your stuff is good they will make the effort to attend your show.

Day 4 - Get a killer set together that may impress the scout, make sure you practice every day leading up to the gig although not on the day. ( You don't want to leave a great performance in the practice room )

Day 5 - Do not think just because the AR guy is keen on your gig there'll be a free music contract waiting in your dressing room!!!

First he'll want to set up a thing by the name of a "showcase " which is generally a private gig where the top record company bosses will show up to inspect your act before getting the bank book out.

These things are customarily a bit mortifying, because it's rather peculiar playing infront of only nine folk all looking menacing and urgent ; just try your best and play your heart out.

If all goes well they are going to offer you a preliminary deal and then it'll be up to your manager to be sure that you get what you're worth. You really want to be certain you have a lot of liberty to make your music the way that you need. Some music business contracts can be very restrictive and kill your talent, so look out.

*Note* I would recommend that you use this technique with second tier record companies initially and then try your luck with he bigger boys when you have a few singles and a good sales previous record under your belt. Perhaps even try and get a music publishing contract first.

Most famous labels would like to see that you have had some success on your own before taking the risk and offering you a massive advance.

But to be completely truthful with you for an instant, the idea of getting a record deal for me is a real turn off these days. I have discovered a simple system to build a list of fans and sell my music that is fully new to the music industry.

This stuff is actually cool and you should definitely examine it below.

With that said I do hope you enjoyed learning how to get a recording contract and if you have got any feedback or questions please let me know. You will be getting loads more free music selling guides form me over the coming months.

*Note* Chris Rocket is a singer tunesmith and online music marketer. You can read his favourite step-by-step guide to music promoting here : Promote Your Music or Music Marketing Secrets

Promote Your Music on Myspace

MySpace has been the heart and soul of most indie music marketing campaigns over the past 5 years or so. Some bands have even "made it " just about exclusively as a consequence of MySpace promoting. The truth however is that for the main part, at least in my opinion, bands and musicians have been using MySpace the wrong way all this time.

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Rather then simply adding many thousands of pals in the hope that they are going to listen to your tunes and be so impressed that they casually run out and buy your album, it is much more advantageous to view MySpace as a way to make primary contact with a potential fan, the goal being to send them to your squeeze page so you might eventually make them enroll in your list, as email selling is a far better system of creating album sales then comments and messages that actually don't amount to far more than Spam.

The quick answer to the question is that yes, I do think pushing your band on MySpace is still applicable but I think an adjustment of the perspective is necessary to truly make it worth your while. Because in the end, any traffic creating methodology is relevant, be it MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or just good old fashion live shows, as long as you are making that traffic count by capturing it in some form so that you can develop a liaison with the people and at last market you music to them again and again again down the road.

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How to pimp your Band Or Music on Twitter

Twitter is like every other social media site in that it could be a amazing way to push traffic to your music. However if you are just sending that traffic to your internet site in the hopes that somebody will see how great you are and get your album you are likely going to be pretty dejected.

If you're planning on ditching MySpace and using Twitter to pump your band or music, then i recommend you set up a squeeze page and ensure you are capturing the contact information of those potential fans so you can market your music later and, with a little luck, actually sell some albums.

The basic way that I use Twitter to sell albums and popularize my music is by including my URL to my capture page in my profile. I use a twitter bot to grow my follow count by about a hundred everyday a good share of these folks wind up clicking on my URL and at last signing up for my contact list. Once there, they are in my sales funnel and in time, the album sales start rolling in.

It is also necessary to communicate with the people that are following you and to a certain amount, the more posts you make the more folk are inclined to check out your profile and obviously your URL. In the end it is like anything, the more that you put in to it the more that you will get out of it. But like in the early days of MySpace, I believe Twitter is a still mostly unexploited traffic generating tool that is great for pushing your band or music on the web.

The best way to pimp your music on YouTube

While there is actually nothing wrong with making your own videos and releasing them on YouTube - actually I utterly recommend that you do - there is a really strong technique to get thousands of visitors, either to your own videos, your band's website, or even better a promotional offer such as "sign on to our mailing list to get our new single for free", or some other such thing, by simply paying other YouTube users to include a link to your site inside their description box.

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If you don't quite know what I am talking about go to Youtube and search the most viewed videos. You need to find a few examples of videos with the link within the description box.

To the right of the video you must see a link. This is an instance of what I'm talking about.

To try this you simply take the following steps.

Search YouTube with keywords that relate in some form to your song or your band. For example, if you had done a cover of smells like teen Spirit you may search words like Nirvana, smells similar to teen Spirit, Grunge, and so on.

Next, sort the results by "view count". You're on the lookout for videos with hundreds of thousands, or maybe millions of perspectives. Disregard any videos that are posted by the artist themselves or any videos that already have a link in the outline box.

Then all you've got to do is send the users of relevant videos a message explaining that you want to pay them on a once per month bases to place your link in there outline box.

You'll possibly only find that one in every ten or twenty people have an interest in your offer, but if even one link on a highly viewed video can imply thousands of new visitors, and potential new fans every month.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

*Note* I would recommend that you use this technique with second tier record companies initially and then try your hand with he larger boys once you have some singles and a good sales track record under your belt. Perhaps even attempt to get a music publishing contract first.

Most large labels wish to see that you have had some success on your own before taking the danger and offering you a huge advance.

But to be absolutely fair with you for an instant, the concept of getting a record deal for me is a genuine turn off today. I have discovered an easy system to create a list of fans and sell my music that is fully new to the music business.

This stuff is really cool and you should definitely examine it below.

With that said I do hope you enjoyed learning how to get a recording contract and if you have got any feedback or questions please tell me. You'll be getting lots more free music promoting guides form me over the approaching months.