Hi, I'm Lynz, a proudly independent acoustic singer-songwriter from the UK and I LOVE helping other independent musicians find their fans, grow their audience and monetise their music. Music is 100% my front-hustle and I write, perform, play and produce but since one video on RU-vid got a TON of views I started to get lots of questions on HOW exactly to be a successful musician - and so the Music Marketing Method was born. So if YOU would like to learn more.... Grab your free Music Marketing Guides on my website www.musicmarketingmethod.com If you're looking for a MASTERCLASS on how to monetise your music watch this: www.musicmarketingmethod.com/monetise-your-music If you'd prefer to TALK TO ME 1-1 then book a call on a day and time that is convenient to you! www.musicmarketingmethod.com/book-a-call Come say hi on social: Twitter: twitter.com/LynzCrichton Instagram: instagram.com/lynzcrichtonmusic/ Music - lynzcrichton.bandcamp.com/
Awesome @DiteKamelli ! 🙌🏻🎶 Great to have you here on the channel! Ok so first up, here’s the link to my 365 Day Content Calendar - www.musicmarketingmethod.com/365daysofcontentformusicians but as an added extra bonus, I’m also giving you the link to my FREE ‘Monetise your Music’ Masterclass - www.musicmarketingmethod.com/monetise-your-music Will you lemme know what you think?
Hi Lynz, question, I'm a new artist and I have a MacBook Air, and I have created an album that I want to upload on Bandcamp, I don't have a producer, do I click the All Rights Reserved to protect my music?
Hey Rae 👋 Lovely to e-meet you and congrats on the new album! 🤩👌🏻🎶 So yes, you can check that box on Bandcamp 👍🏻 This doesn’t necessarily protect your music in law, depending on what country you are in, this checkbox at least gives other people the sign that YOU made the music and you don’t want it copied! 👍🏻
I was more so trying to do video calls with my guitar directly into my mixer then into OBS to the video call service. Do you have any experience with this scenario? In the video call service, I've chosen OBS as the microphone, but it seems the audio is still very compressed. ((I also downloaded a virtual cable as suggested by another video)) I'm thinking it might be the fact that the video call services only recognize voices rather than music. The signal is immediately dropped out and sounds like this 💩 😂 any help would be appreciated, thanks!
@@FellDestroyedMusic which video call service do you mean? Zoom? If so, I actually find it better to plug in directly to zoom and not use OBS and use ‘high fidelity’ audio settings. I have another video for that if that would be useful for you?
@@FellDestroyedMusic try MusicRepo - she has a great video (and many others too!) on this subject - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WoXM5wcpVNU.htmlsi=217d_f5-MRBkJoB_
Hey Michael - lovely to connect with you and thanks so much for watching the video! So pleased you enjoyed! I do indeed have some 1-1 coaching slots to help independent musicians and can absolutely help you with your Bandcamp store - if you’d like to book a zoom call, just click here to find out more….www.musicmarketingmethod.com/coaching
Thank you for this really useful video! I have nothing on my Bandcamp artist account yet but I'm mixing an album at the moment. Is there anything I can be doing now, before I'm ready to upload the music?
Sure thing - you can be building your audience on socials to create a community who enjoys your music and wants to listen when it’s ready!? Need help with that?
@@LynzCrichton Ah, yes, of course that makes sense. I was thinking more about setting up artwork etc. really. I have an album cover sorted, and even separate track artwork too, and wondered whether I could be doing things like designing my page. Social Media is a tough one for me, as I generally don't like using it now and I've already quit Facebook and Twitter and am solely on Mastodon and RU-vid at the moment. I know that will reduce my reach, and I'm trying to think of ways to make it work for me without being too involved. It's tricky...
@@macronencer Do feel free to join our Music Marketing Method community where I share tips of how to overcome the to-do list for musicians! I also have a Masterclass here you can watch for free to join us! www.musicmarketingmethod.com/monetise-your-music Would love to have you with us! x
@@LynzCrichtonI agree, I think starting conversations is key. As I did a radio show for 7 years playing new emerging artists (through digidj websites, Music Xray and Music Submit) I receive a lot of DMs and nobody tries to spark an actual conversation before talking about themselves. This makes a great topic I'm considering: how to start a conversation.
Awesome! Thanks Sophie 🤩 If there’s anything else I can do for you please just reach out, either in the Twitter DMs or grab my email from the About section here on YT 🙌🏻🎶🤘🏻
Yo this is a really helpful video. thanks for taking the time. Im thinking about jumping on bandcamp this week to release my first project. Ill email it to Lynz for free. She deserves it for all she has given to the community. keep smashin.
Hi, thanks for an honest review. I have a question, on the Playlist Supply page I can't see any obvious option for cancelling the subscription, I may want to do this in the future. I have been trying to find out information on this for the last hour. Many thanks.
Hey @sheltersonic5499 thanks so much for your comment, I’m super pleased you enjoyed the video! Ok, so in terms of pricing your tracks/Albums etc, you can simply choose whatever price you want, BUT there’s two things to consider: 1) What prices are there for similar artists in your niche? 2) Do you have a fanbase built up somewhere already you can push to Bandcamp, and what would they be prepared to pay? (Ask them!)
Great video Lynz. So incredibly inspiring to be introduced to these awesome fierce ladies… rocking it. I can’t wait to get stuck in and check them out. Thank you 🤩
Awwww thank you SO much Emily. This means the world to me ❤️❤️ I haven’t recorded a version other than this - but I’m open to it!! Thanks so much for your comment xxx
Lynz, as usual, is on the money here, really helpful, insightful advice and information imparted generously to the artist community - Thank you for all you do!
unfortunately since this video was made Bandcamp has changed hands twice and laid of over half of it's staff. Not looking good I'm afraid. Such a shame. Fantastic video for what it's worth though.
It might not be going anywhere in real terms but the legitimacy of the independent artist's haven it has been until now is now hanging in the balance in light of the people it's been taken over by. Recent history tells us that when huge companies take over beloved indie sites and fire 50% of the customer services personnel the quality of the user experience tends to be the first thing to plummet. @@LynzCrichton
genuinely not trying to be neggy by the way, just think it's artist's responsibility to make each-other aware of sea-changes in an already very difficult climate and Songtradr is a really really dodgy company I'm afraid. Good luck and god-speed to everyone though!!!!!!!! @@LynzCrichton ❤❤❤❤
That sounds very interesting, thx for this video. May I ask you Lynz: what if I have already made the upload for my new song ( imusician) which will be released in dez 29th 23. does bandcamp do the job like a distributor ? Spotify and co?
Hi Ines 👋👋 Love your questions! Ok so when you upload your music via iMusician, they distribute your music to streaming platforms (like Spotify, Apple, Deezer etc). This way people can listen to your music for free, and you get paid a royalty (albeit a very tiny one!) each time someone listens. Bandcamp is completely separate to this, as it acts almost like an online record store (like the real ones we used to find on the high street) where people can stream your music a couple of times, but if they like it, they have to buy it. Equally, your most ardent superfans often want to buy it to support you anyway. If you want your music on Bandcamp, you need to upload it there separately…. But it can be worth it, because one sale of an EP/Album on Bandcamp is worth thousands of streams! X
Bless you Luke 🫶❤️ As long as the people who DO watch, get some value from it, I’m happy! Have you been experiencing any unsolicited ’feedback’ recently?
Okay, so I managed to reach 6:50 and here's where I am going to comment. Seems there's not much more after that. I'm genuinely trying to do my best in the building my relationship with my fans. However, here's the problem: less than 2% of the people going into the videos interact with the videos by liking, subscribing or commenting, and I can count on my fingers how many people comment and reply back after I reply to them. The impression I'm getting is that most people that get things for free genuinely do not care about the artist at all. I'm competing with thousands of artists that want to do the same thing. It's a bit like what Louis Rossman said in a video where people have this notion that the fact that they are visiting the website is payment for the service. So, he doesn't blame companies like RU-vid making their services worse for those people who offer nothing in return. So, the question is: what should musicians do if their audience barely respects them? Well, here's the funny thing: Crossfades ironically work to get me to buy music if what's previewed is good enough. I save on Spotify the crossfade and check their website to see how am I supposed to buy the product. Unfortunately with how much noise there is out there, it's similarly as easy for people to just click away to the next dopamine hit. There's a lot of strategies that could be done and I'm looking forward to exploring my skillset, but I know that streaming music for free (since I do not meet the requirements to get paid on RU-vid) is not going to work, and to get on Spotify you need to pay for a distribution service, where without advertising you are literally invisible. I have yet to try to directly advertise a paid product or offer my services to people in industries like gaming, advertising and other forms of multi-media. I have yet to properly participate in music making competitions inside my niche or even wider (mainly cause Google doesn't help and Twitter seems to be the place for that). I have other options that I haven't tried that could work or could not work. Ultimately, what matters is that people genuinely care about your music. In today's world, that's almost nowhere since not even friends who like the same kind of music I do bother to check into my account and listen. So, ultimately, I have to change my strategy since the long term road is not going to work long term. Ultimately though, your video did help me reflect on my current path and see where I'm going better. In the end, I'm just experimenting and seeing what sticks. I can't ask for nothing more because what I'm getting is nothing and I seem to be giving almost nothing as well because nobody's taking what I'm giving for free.
Awww Soraia it’s great to have you here! If you have any other questions related to your musical journey, please let me know, I’m preparing more videos and want them to be as useful and informative as possible! 🫶
Great advice on music marketing! I've been exploring ways to spice up my socials and stumbled upon boost app social. It's pretty slick for creating catchy captions and hashtags that reflect my music style. Anyone else tried it for their music promos?
It was only a two-hour stopover (though I did manage to get in a livestream in Heathrow Airport). In high school, I was in London for around five days and enjoyed it then.
Hey Jonny 👋 Yes it’s definitely possible! Not sure if you’re looking to sell sample packs - there’s no official setup for selling sample packs (or sound effect packs), but many artists simply upload all the tracks into an album, as they would any other release, then disable streaming using the Bandcamp Pro Optional Streaming feature.
Cheers Lynz, that was a rapid response 🙏🏽. Reason I asked is because I want to make short tracks, like advert, jingle type stuff because I dont have the time to produce 3/4 minute jobbies constantly, I'd also like to offer stems/samples. So need the paid version yeh? Thanks again.
Amazing Lyns, i have made a profile but after trying so many different htings and setting up so many things still without a single purchase I was a bit exhausted. This has inspired me to go back to this site and give it a good solid crack!
HI Lynz! Sounds great. Love the looping you're doing. Can you tell me what the brand and model # is? And also since this is at least a 4 year old pedal, is there one you like better nowadays? I'm a solo singer/songwriter like yourself, acoustic guitar and voice. Thank you very much!
Hey Matt 👋 So pleased you enjoyed the video - and yes, you can make clickable links on Instagram inside IG Stories or in your link in bio. You can also make clickable links inside your DMs. Do you need more info on how? x
Problem would love to live stream but i do covers im a U2 tribute clubs and pubs when it comes to live streaming i always get blocked like many tribute bands im a singer and a righter but i cant play instruments how do i make the baking tracks any idears for both loved your info i will try loopback
