How to Thrive in Music (Even During a Crisis)

03/30/20 • 71 min

Made It In Music: Interviews With Artists, Songwriters, And Music Industry Pros

When your income depends on going on the road, times of global or widespread economic crisis can lead to a lot of uncertainty for you and your family.

In this episode, Seth and Logan, VP of Marketing at Full Circle Music, talk about what musicians can do during those times and what types of assistance are out there for artists, musicians, booking agents, and anyone else in the music industry impacted by live shows being canceled or postponed.

Financial Support During Times of Hardship

Grammy’s MusiCares: https://www.grammy.com/musicares
Musician’s Foundation: http://www.musiciansfoundation.org/
Sweet Relief Musician’s Fund: https://www.sweetrelief.org/

Stay Connected!

Don’t cut yourself off from the world! Stay connected virtually with family and songwriters like you!

This is a great time to focus on music and collaborate with other people just like you, even virtually.

Song Chaser’s Facebook Group: FullCircleMusic.com/Group

How Can You Work From Home?

Zoom! Grab a microphone if you have it, or use your computer’s built-in microphone to collaborate with people. You can also record the session for free with Zoom. https://zoom.us/

Discord: Free chat application to keep in touch with people from all over and hold multiple conversations in one location. https://discordapp.com/

Loom: Great free screen recording app. https://www.loom.com/

AudioMovers: Real-Time audio sharing for production tweaks. https://audiomovers.com/

Set aside time, even if it’s just 90 minutes. You can get A LOT done in 90 minutes.

Invest in a Home Rig

Laptop. Small Midi Controller. Microphone. Interface. Done.

Use free software like GarageBand and ProTools First https://my.avid.com/get/pro-tools-first

Production Course: 7 part mini-series about what you should think about when recording songs for yourself and others. FullCircleMusic.com/FreeProductionCourse

Social Media

Build your audience and your following by investing your time in social media.

Go live on Instagram to play and share stories. Create connections where your fans are!

The people who will come out stronger are those who invested in their audience.

Create content for YouTube as well as people are spending more time with streaming and video-on-demand.

You can also join TikTok!

Batch record! Take as many photos, videos, or content at a time that you can use later! This is REALLY helpful with social media content!

Seth’s Teleprompter: https://amzn.to/3apgfjk

Crushing It: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too: https://amzn.to/2vRa5tb

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ABOUT FULL CIRCLE MUSIC:

Full Circle Music is a Music Production Company, Music Publishing Company, Record Label, and Music Education Academy based in Nashville, TN. They regularly work with some of the biggest names in music, such as Newsboys, High Valley, Casting Crowns, Skillet, Francesca Battisteli, and For King & Country, just to name a few. Their team has several Grammy Awards, Dove Awards, and over 20 #1 songs at radio. Through the Full Circle Music Academy, Full Circle Music aspires to teach the next generation of musicians what it takes to make it in the modern music...

When your income depends on going on the road, times of global or widespread economic crisis can lead to a lot of uncertainty for you and your family.

Financial Support During Times of Hardship

Grammy’s MusiCares: https://www.grammy.com/musicares
Musician’s Foundation: http://www.musiciansfoundation.org/
Sweet Relief Musician’s Fund: https://www.sweetrelief.org/

Stay Connected!

Don’t cut yourself off from the world! Stay connected virtually with family and songwriters like you!

This is a great time to focus on music and collaborate with other people just like you, even virtually.

Song Chaser’s Facebook Group: FullCircleMusic.com/Group

How Can You Work From Home?

Zoom! Grab a microphone if you have it, or use your computer’s built-in microphone to collaborate with people. You can also record the session for free with Zoom. https://zoom.us/

Discord: Free chat application to keep in touch with people from all over and hold multiple conversations in one location. https://discordapp.com/

Loom: Great free screen recording app. https://www.loom.com/

AudioMovers: Real-Time audio sharing for production tweaks. https://audiomovers.com/

Set aside time, even if it’s just 90 minutes. You can get A LOT done in 90 minutes.

Invest in a Home Rig

Laptop. Small Midi Controller. Microphone. Interface. Done.

Use free software like GarageBand and ProTools First https://my.avid.com/get/pro-tools-first

Production Course: 7 part mini-series about what you should think about when recording songs for yourself and others. FullCircleMusic.com/FreeProductionCourse

Social Media

Build your audience and your following by investing your time in social media.

Go live on Instagram to play and share stories. Create connections where your fans are!

The people who will come out stronger are those who invested in their audience.

Create content for YouTube as well as people are spending more time with streaming and video-on-demand.

You can also join TikTok!

Batch record! Take as many photos, videos, or content at a time that you can use later! This is REALLY helpful with social media content!

Seth’s Teleprompter: https://amzn.to/3apgfjk

Crushing It: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too: https://amzn.to/2vRa5tb

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Previous Episode

How to Succeed as a Pop Artist or Songwriter in Nashville

Check out the DEEP DIVE for this episode! Seth shares about creating a "Vivid Vision" and how you can use it as a framework to set goals for your music career and pursue them as fast as possible.

Access the Deep Dive here: https://members.fullcirclemusic.com/made-it-in-music-deep-dives

A&R, Creative Director at Altadena

From an early age, Noreen knew she wanted to be in music. From listening to her mom play piano to writing her own songs, music has been a huge part of her life.

How do I listen to songs all day? That’s what I want to do

Starting as an intern at BMG Publishing in Nashville and New York, Noreen realized her favorite thing to do and what she was good at was listening to other people songs.

After finishing her internship, BMG offered her a position as a receptionist her last semester of school.

I think you should be a publisher...

The turning point for Noreen’s career was when her boss recommended a different career path to her. Up until that point, Noreen was struggling if she should become a songwriter, or stick to the business side of the music industry.

Do the job, before you get the job

Noreen’s advice to people who want to grow in their career as a publisher, even as an intern, is to create a job for yourself before people ask you to. As a receptionist at BMG, Noreen researched how to get writers in a room together, how to get emails of people to pitch songs to, and all other aspects of getting a song heard. She decided Pop was her ticket in and started focusing her attention to getting pop into Music City before anyone thought it was even a possibility.

Now, she looks for this quality in assistants and coordinators. What are you doing now to advance yourself? Who are you working with already? What are you doing because you love it, even if you don’t get paid for it.

Altadena

As a Creative Director, Noreen’s role is to get artist’s in a room to set up cowrites or sessions that will hopefully turn into a song placement for the writers. She also listens to songs submitted by her writers and provides feedback to help improve the songs and hopefully get them placement.

What does Altadena do? They serve as a hub for writers, artists, and producers where Altadena serves as the intermediary between an artist’s label, publishing company, or management company. Their partnerships are Warner Chapel on the Publishing side, Warner Records for label and print, and the management partnership with Red Light Management. Altadena keeps artists from feeling forgotten and falling through the cracks. Some of their talent includes Carley Peirce, Ryan Griffin, Conor Matthews, and more.

Listen as Noreen expands on how she brought Pop to Nashville and how they are trying to keep Nashville pop competitive with the rest of the country.

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Next Episode

How Twitch is Making Musicians Thousands of Dollars

Karen Allen is the creator of Twitch For Musicians, a book and online course that teaches artists how to grow their fanbase and earn revenue by live streaming on Twitch, a platform that is still new to the music world.

Karen tells us about her journey of discovering Twitch for herself as a musician, to then teaching other musicians about the unique platform. While Twitch is mainly used by gamers, Karen describes the platform as community-based live streaming, and she has found that it creates a perfect opportunity for musicians to have a strong, supportive community of fans that are in it for the long haul.

“It’s a hangout with fans. Think of it like you’re having friends over to your home studio to have beers and play music”

She also dives into the monetization opportunities on Twitch, how musicians get discovered on Twitch, and how to network through this platform that is still very new to the music world.

Karen Allen has written a book and has created a course, both titled Twitch for Musicians, filled with all of her knowledge and wisdom regarding being a musician on Twitch, be sure to check it out below!

Check out her book Twitch for Musicians HERE:

fullcirclemusic.com/twitchbook

Use the code FCM20 to get 20% off the book or a one-on-one session with Karen herself!

Get her course Twitch for Musicians for 20% off HERE:

fullcirclemusic.com/twitchcourse

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Twitter: @twitchformusic

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Facebook: @twitchformusicians

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