Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience on this stuff. Networking and the use of social media have been the two aspects I seem to struggle with the most these days, but I feel like you hit the mark on this vid.
I fucking love you sithu. Have loved you for 12 years. Youre the reason i am now a working, earning music producer and mixer. I hope you read this and it gives you some sort of gratification you damn boomer
Thanks for speaking to the soft skills necessary for indie musicians. There are so many books about hiring designers and setting up LLC's and EPK's but so few really stress how important it is to collaborate 🙏
Been listening to you since your "Isles" ep from way back in 2012. I found it on got-djent (when that was still a thing lol) and it was my favorite record for that year. It is so inspiring to see how far youve come through all these years and im glad to see you still doing what you do!
Please never stop making music. I can't describe how much I love what you do. ALSO PLEASE COME TO THE UNITED STATES I will travel ANYWHERE here within the USA to come see you.
That willingness to communicate back is super important. Like, I tweet at you and you actually reply back to me. That never happens with other celebrities.
Would love to see more vlogs! Would be particularly interested to hear about your composition process and like analysis of your music and the plot elements in your music and how they interact
Mate, I just want to hear more of the audible chocolate that is your voice. But seriously, any content you put out is great. So glad I stumbled across your colab with Plini ("I") at my FLGS not too long ago.
I always try to talk about you to everyone who likes this kind of music. And just a couple months ago I met the guys of Between the buried and me and I can’t believe they didn’t know about you! Well, they know now.
No way Oo I've been to a gig with Between the burried and me, Intervals and Plini on stage. How could they share the stage with Plini and Intervals and not know about Sithu ? :o
Self promotion Instagram use, and hashtags that are related to a post, that is what I have seen has worked for actually getting my music liked more. Also I found it does not matter how many videos I post at once ot seems, it's more what I post, when I post it, and what it is that matters. In a world of so much funny stuff I just post actual song stuff mostly on my Instagram, memes on my reddit, and then what I want on Facebook. Bandcamp is where I post my music so far. You can release an album on bandcamp for free.
I love your style. You're so clean and precise. I'd LooOoove a vlog about your personal encounter to music in general and with the guitar. what chords do you love? and why?
Really great video, man! And I couldn’t agree with the Distrokid rec more. It’s one of those things where I feel like you’d have to be a fool to know about it and not be using it 😄
What do you think about pursuing dual career paths in related fields even though you specifically want to make complex progressive metal? (i.e. music + sound design, game audio, computer programming in audio, or something of that nature)? Do you think it's feasible to be able to handle both jobs? Or do you think one or the other will always eat away at the time required to really get good at these disciplines?
Really curious about that distrokid plug. I've been using tunecore for a few years and that yearly charge per release payment sucks and it really adds up after a while.
@@Archaeologist tunecore is definitely better and faster than It was at the beginning of the decade but I'll definitely have to check out distrokid soon.
Can you give us some beginners advice on a decent recording setup? I don’t know anything about the computer requirements, DAW, interfaces etc. honestly I’m clueless. Makes me feel old. Lol. I’ve always been an old school amp and cab kind of guy but I recently bought an hx stomp and I’m inspired to record some ideas with it.
You can use your Stomp as your interface and, as a taster, pretty much any computer you have. I'd recommend Reaper as DAW because it's cheap, powerful, works really well on less powerful machines, and there's loads of tuition videos on their website. But other good choices are available.
Some really good advice dude! But i sometimes get the idea that its all about doing the craziest things on your instrument. It has to be impressive and crazy...its almost like a race of who is the best in playing this or that. I do believe it's my way of being to crittical about music because i also look for those impressive and difficult guitar playing techniques. Is it normal that i think like this sometimes? Because i do know in my gut there will always be people with more talent than others...
