Author: Angela Tyler

  • How to Decide What to Charge for Your Next Gig

    How to Decide What to Charge for Your Next Gig

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. One of the first financial decisions you’ll make as a band is how much to charge for your gigs. And while I’d like to say that setting…

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  • 4 Ways to Use Festivals to Build Your Network

    4 Ways to Use Festivals to Build Your Network

    + What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll help you develop a plan to exceed them! Tell us what you’d like to achieve and a Soundfly Mentor will get back to you within a day or two. When you think of music festivals, you’re probably imagining long, hot, sun-soaked days hopping between stages…

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  • Feeling Stuck? Try This Goal-Setting Tactic Tonight

    Feeling Stuck? Try This Goal-Setting Tactic Tonight

    + Pursue your dreams faster with a Soundfly Mentor! Share your musical goals with us and we’ll pair you up with a professional musician, engineer, educator, or music industry veteran who will help you achieve them in a customized four-week session. Feeling like you’re stuck in a never-ending cycle of deadlines, putting out fires, and zero progress? It’s…

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  • 5 Crowdfunding Journeys We’d Love You to Support Right Now

    5 Crowdfunding Journeys We’d Love You to Support Right Now

    + What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll help you reach them. Tell us what you’d like to achieve and learn more about Soundfly Mentorship here. If you’re looking to support the next great cause, there’s no shortage of places to donate your time and money. Whether you’re looking to help a friend…

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  • The Pros and Cons of Touring in the Summer

    The Pros and Cons of Touring in the Summer

    Ah, summer. Beautiful weather, beach trips, bike trips, trips to who-cares-where… let’s just get on our bikes and GO! There’s nothing quite like that feeling of playing an outdoor gig in your neighborhood with the sun going down behind your band. But… is it the right time to go out on the road? That’s a…

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  • What You Can Do to Get Your Songs on Spotify’s Official Playlists

    What You Can Do to Get Your Songs on Spotify’s Official Playlists

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Gaining placement on one of Spotify’s official playlists has become a bit of a Holy Grail to the emerging artist. With streaming taking the front seat to…

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  • How Being Busy 24/7 Can Actually Hurt Your Career

    How Being Busy 24/7 Can Actually Hurt Your Career

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Mark Cuban has this terrifying saying that I once heard him throw at a budding entrepreneur on Shark Tank: “Work like there is someone working 24 hours…

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  • 11 Music Conferences to Keep Your Eye on in 2018

    11 Music Conferences to Keep Your Eye on in 2018

    One of the coolest things about this industry of ours is all of the incredible and unique connections you can make with others who have also chosen to pursue their passions and create careers out of their love of music. The opportunity to network is all around you — at local shows, at in-person meetups,…

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  • 10 Facebook Groups Musicians Need to Join Right Now

    10 Facebook Groups Musicians Need to Join Right Now

    Networking is everything in music. Discover our favorite Facebook Groups, full of career opportunities, community, support, and advice just for musicians.

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  • 10 Hilariously Bad Examples of Product Placement in Music Videos

    10 Hilariously Bad Examples of Product Placement in Music Videos

    Join us as we examine the most blatant examples of product placement in pop music, and break down the fine line between selling and selling out.

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