Tag: band advice

  • 5 Ways to Help Your Music Get Discovered in the New Digital Age

    5 Ways to Help Your Music Get Discovered in the New Digital Age

    + What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll hook you up with a Soundfly Mentor to help you reach them! Recently our friends over at The Outline published a great piece called, “Finding New Music in the Algorithm Age.” The article collects input from six experts and industry veterans, people who work…

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  • 6 Useful Models for Organizing Your Setlists

    6 Useful Models for Organizing Your Setlists

    + 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. How much time does your band spend arguing over setlists, or who gets to write them? Back up… how much time do you even spend…

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  • Why Keeping Mistakes on Your Album Can Work in Your Favor

    Why Keeping Mistakes on Your Album Can Work in Your Favor

    Musicians fear the mistake. Whether it’s on stage or in studio, we’re afraid of being defined by them, but they can also turn a good song into a great one!

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  • How to Get Through a Show When Everything Goes Wrong

    How to Get Through a Show When Everything Goes Wrong

    When your live show truly starts to go off the rails, remember these words of advice, and turn the gig around to finish strong.

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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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  • 4 Myths Musicians Believe About Succeeding in the Music Industry

    4 Myths Musicians Believe About Succeeding in the Music Industry

    Musicians are led to believe in the mythology of the popular mainstream, but there are so many hidden routes to success. Let’s debunk those myths.

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  • Tips for Getting Your Solo Music Career Started

    Tips for Getting Your Solo Music Career Started

    Over the last 15 years, I’ve been part of seven different musical projects. I’ve played in all kinds of bands: a shoegaze trio, an experimental metal duo, an electronic pop group, an indie rock band, an ambient octet, a punk rock quartet, and a German teen pop group. I ended up leaving all of them.…

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  • 6 Fresh Tips for Selling Out “Old” Merch

    6 Fresh Tips for Selling Out “Old” Merch

    + 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. If you’ve ever been on the road or toured for an extensive period of time, you know that #merchlife is real. Merch isn’t just an…

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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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  • Opening Band Etiquette

    Opening Band Etiquette

    I’m currently reading Meet Me in the Bathroom, an excellent oral history of the rock and roll resurgence in NYC at the turn of the century, written by Lizzy Goodman. Aside from the havoc that existed then, as the swan song of the “glory days of the music industry” was playing out and my own nostalgia…

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