There are many platforms to distribute music online, which offer a number of benefits that are more or less attractive depending on each musician's goals and profile. Maintaining an active account anywhere on the internet requires time and effort, so it's important to choose carefully and go one step at a time.
A great place to build your platform and get work as a musician, especially as a gigging musician, is YouTube. Potential clients don't only want to hear your music, but also assess your stage presence and see you in action, in order to decide whether you're a good fit for their event. What's better for that than a YouTube video? And that's just the start. You can improve your discoverability with shorts, make your music and podcasts accessible through YouTube Music, interact with your audience through text posts, and once you get enough followers, offer subscription perks and even organise donation campaigns!
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Creating content for social media is a lot of work, but if you know your tools and platforms, it becomes way easier. To help with that, the course "Mastering YouTube for Musicians" teaches you exactly what is available in YouTube and how to use it.
Guided by Millicent Stephenson, who speaks from experience and in an accessible way, you'll learn:
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As a musician, having a presence on YouTube can make all the difference. Every year, the platform adds new ways of interaction that benefit music creators, like the brand new "YouTube Recap", a customised summary where users can check the musicians and songs they listened to the most during the year and share them with their friends.
Managing online platforms and social media websites can look daunting, but don't let that stop you from sharing your music and build your career. Getting started with YouTube is easier than you think! To learn how to do it, you can get the course "Mastering YouTube for Musicians" right in this website and learn:
On Wednesday 30th March, 7.30pm until 9pm on Zoom, Millicent Stephenson will be running a Zoom webinar called ‘Mastering YouTube for Musicians – Part 1’. The session is directed towards musicians who want to increase their reach online through YouTube, but aren't sure of how to navigate the platform and use its tools to their favour.
The content of the session will be:
Interested? The course fee is £35 and you can book your place following this link.
Are you interested in setting up your own YouTube channel to widen your music reach, but are not sure what to do? Do you worry about breaking it, and feel step-by-step instructions by a musician would help you to understand the screens and get it working?
Perhaps you have put videos up but have had zero or one or two views. This may also be the case with your subscriber count. Would you like to know how to increase both things without paying for advertising?
On Wednesday 30th March, 7.30pm until 9pm on Zoom, Millicent Stephenson will be running a Zoom webinar called ‘Mastering YouTube for Musicians – Part 1’ to address all these concerns and answer your questions.
The content of the session will be:
Millicent will talk from the experience she's got...