Category: Tips

  • How to Create Instagram Ads That Connect with New Fans

    How to Create Instagram Ads That Connect with New Fans

    + Pursue your next social media marketing goal with a Soundfly Mentor like Marta! Soundfly offers four-week mentorship sessions with a pro, customized to you. Get in touch to learn more. Instagram is yet another quintessential outlet to showcase photos from your shows, concert flyers, promo images, music videos, and your general artistic #aesthetic, whether you’re a signed…

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  • Make a Legit Commitment to Your Resolution This Year, Please?

    Make a Legit Commitment to Your Resolution This Year, Please?

    How many New Year’s resolutions have you ever made and actually stuck to? If the number exceeds zero, you deserve a round of applause. According to this article in Psychology Today (and others), there are tons of reasons we bail on our New Year’s resolutions: unrealistic expectations, unrealistic feelings of shame when we fail, an…

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  • Songwriting School: Verse Two – Now What?

    Songwriting School: Verse Two – Now What?

    + 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. A common stumbling block for songwriters is how to handle the second verse. After all, many songs only have two verses structurally, and the second verse often…

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  • Are You ‘That’ Band Member?

    Are You ‘That’ Band Member?

    Whether or not you’re the band member causing an issue with your fellow musicians, use this self-check to figure out how to resolve the problem.

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  • 4 Steps to Attracting or Asking for Sponsorship as an Artist

    4 Steps to Attracting or Asking for Sponsorship as an Artist

    Being a musician isn’t cheap, is it? There are recording costs, tour expenses, shipping materials, equipment repairs/rentals/repurchases, the cost of hiring a publicist or a marketer, and/or a radio tracker to push your music if you’re going at it DIY. And don’t even get me started on matching outfits. It’s both normal and encouraged to…

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  • How and Why You Should Use a Reference Track During Mixing

    How and Why You Should Use a Reference Track During Mixing

    + 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. Arguably one of the most important skills in mixing audio is the ability to listen. Listening to what others have done with their songs specifically and being able…

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  • The Essential Touring Musician’s Guide to Working Out on the Road

    The Essential Touring Musician’s Guide to Working Out on the Road

    Fitness starts with the diet, and this can be one of the absolute hardest things to control on the road. Touring is always a sacrifice of sorts, but it doesn’t have to ruin your body. I once spent five weeks on tour with a $10/day stipend for food and drinks. I ate two granola bars…

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  • 8 Effective Ways to Get More Playlist Followers on Spotify

    8 Effective Ways to Get More Playlist Followers on Spotify

    + 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. By Laura Buckler Spotify promises to make music “available to anyone.” This enormous platform is already streaming millions of songs made by talented artists, and as with any…

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  • Tour Food Can Be Soooo Rough, Here’s What You Should Be Eating on the Road

    Tour Food Can Be Soooo Rough, Here’s What You Should Be Eating on the Road

    After a while on the road, pizza just ain’t gonna cut it. Stock up on these types of tour food and necessities to stay full, healthy & happy!

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  • What I Learned on My 4-Month House-Concert Tour

    What I Learned on My 4-Month House-Concert Tour

    My whole life changed when I traveled across the United States on a four-month house concert tour with my bus named “Pearl the Camper.” I can’t tell you how much love I’ve felt on this tour — words just wouldn’t do it justice. The number of incredible people who reached out, hosted or attended shows,…

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