I spend a lot of time reading about how to market myself, particularly on the web, and it is confusing.
Most recommend that a musician has a proper website, myspace, facebook, twitter, and a dozen other new social networking sites which pop up each and every day in order to reach every nook and cranny of cyberspace with your product. I spend so much time trying to manage all this communication (not to mention reading about what I should be doing), that I actually forget sometimes what is important. The music. I think many budding musicians, including myself, forget that without a good product, all the cyber-marketing in the world isn't going to help you make a living at it. I need to spend much more time getting my music up to snuff, writing new songs, working with a drummer, and upping my performance skill, before I worry about the cybermarketing of it. This is not to say that the latter is not important, it's just that instead of worrying about my Reverbnation chart position, I should be worried about writing another good tune.
It's been a good month since I wrote a new song that I actually liked, and I have been spending so much time on this damn computer that it took me almost a week after I moved to unpack a guitar. Yesterday I finally got the studio space completely functional (not clean mind), but at least organized that I can practice without having to climb over or move five thousand different things. It's great. So great, that I'm going to go practice right now.
Laters
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