Build A Music Producer Career (From Scratch)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 лис 2022
- What we do: www.darklabelmusic.com
Get 1-to-1 business management: rebrand.ly/evmscjg
Business Support Group: - rebrand.ly/59294qp
Go Deeper Than Our UA-cam Tutorials:
🎧 Music Pro Daily - A podcast with 150+ episodes documenting the day-to-day lives and strategies of working music professionals - rb.gy/veyhay
✉️ The Producer Files - A twice monthly long-form email newsletter with insights you can use to grow your career and business as a music professional - rb.gy/wybbxr
●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
Recommended Videos:
Other tools to find artists-
• It's NOT Hard To Find ...
Momentum Model (retainers) -
• Music Producers Do THI...
Communicating Value (sales) -
• The MAGIC Way To Sell ...
●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
What is Dark Label Music?
Dark Label offers 1-to-1 business consulting. creative development, and career strategy for music producers and songwriters. Since 2018 we’ve directly served over 500 clients from emerging producers to working freelancers to multi-platinum, GRAMMY winning producers and songwriters.
Our consulting roster / business support group is made up of (50%) producers making the transition to full-time, (35%) full-time producers growing their business, and (15%) major label producers building new projects.
You can find our success stories here: rebrand.ly/6ipe5hs
●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
In this video:
Build A Music Producer Career (From Scratch)
A lot of producers are trying to "win the game" when they aren't even on the playing field yet. In this video I walk you through twelve steps to follow that will help you build a sustainable career as a working music producer despite the market becoming more saturated. It's not the easy way. It's not the only way. But it's a way that I know works...
1. Start with an advantage by putting yourself in the most optimal position to pursue this career.
2. Apprentice under a veteran music producer to develop your skills and gain experience working with established artists & songwriters.
3. Use that experience to put together a portfolio that proves without a doubt that you can make great songs at a higher standard than the average producer.
4. Increase your value in the market by throughly understanding how to develop talent and how the music business works. Fill your toolbox with people and resources that you can bring to the table when needed.
5. By completing steps 1 - 4, you can now present yourself to the market with a newfound confidence - feeling 100% certain that you can deliver and be willing to promote yourself without any fear or insecurity.
6. Set measurable income goals and have a way to track your progress preferably under the guidance and accountability of an advisor and/or manager.
7. Do everything in your power to ensure that enough people know about you until you reach a point where paid work is coming to you. You’re now in demand.
8. Implement a business model that provides a consistent income, is fair to people you serve, and ensures the projects you work on have the highest chance of gaining traction.
9. Practice leadership, selflessness, and ethics in all of your business affairs.
10. Now that you’re a working producer… Leverage your reputation to expand your network so that you can contribute to projects that will add value to your catalog and lead to bigger opportunities.
11. Develop an entrepreneurial spirit and diversify your income streams so that you don’t have to depend on anyone else for your long-term financial security.
12. Give back by creating new opportunities for the next generation of music makers.
What We Do: www.darklabelmusic.com
Get 1-on-1 business management: rb.gy/alxfwk
Join "The Producer Files" for free: rb.gy/wybbxr
The Music Pro Daily Business Podcast: rb.gy/veyhay
Daniel I’m so glad I found you and this channel. I swear all the steps resonate so much! You’ve articulated things I have been feeling but couldn’t put into words. I realized that whilst I’ve been able to make some money here and there (not enough for full-time) and starting to build my portfolio, I’m rushing through steps 1-4 and jumping to steps 6-12. I’ve been anxious thinking I need to be ahead right now when I should just chill and focus on the steps I’m at and trust the process 💪 Thank you again for your amazing content. Subscribed!
Glad you resonate with this! Steps 1-4 are super important. That's where a producer develops their competitive edge (in my opinion).
Number nine is so hard to admit to oneself. The facts that maybe, just maybe we are selfish and that harms us and benefits no one. On some grown man ish. You just gained a subscriber. Top notch.
It’ll make everything easier and much more enjoyable in this business. Thanks for watching and the sub!
@@darklabelmusic can you show me a hit you made
the best new 12-step program everyone needed! Thanks for the awesome vid Danny. you da GOAT. nice edit btw! lookin' good ;)
Ha! Thank ya brotha
Love this. Thanks for making this and sharing your experience!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video was definitely very informative. I always struggle with finding community and mentorship.
Great stuff super useful - Thank you!
Thanks Eli!
Thanks 🔥🔥
I'm here because Pain 1 featured and did a reaction to this video, He was a bit skeptical at first however come to see the value of your video and agree with alot of what you said so decided to share your video.
That was very cool of him to do. Enjoy the content!
cant wait to save up some cash and get a 1 on 1 session my man!!!!!!! i have such a problem with directing my focus.
Thank you so much for this video ~ i’m 17 and i’ve been wanting to start producing music for a while now.
Thanks for watching! Have a fun time producing and enjoy it :)
Great video! Always valuable information, you the man Daniel!
Thanks Jack! Hope you're well my friend.
@@darklabelmusic Doing great! Just got sent 20k worth of equipment from doing content on youtube.
@@jacksp8de yoooo! That's how to do it! ha
@@darklabelmusic thanks 🙏🏾 it’s crazy what content does.
The level of this communication is epic sir. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
🚨 Hey friends… We recently created "The Producer Files" to provide producer-songwriters with business strategies from the trenches, in-depth classes (not on UA-cam), and interviews where producers share how they make a living. It's all 100% free. You can learn more here: rb.gy/wybbxr
3:10 more people should talk about this and especially when it comes to therapy for men but over all - my production and opportunities improved once I sorted my life out
We agree 100% - thanks for watching!
Thanks for talking about ethics. DJ Hard
0:02 bro really said oil up
THANK YOU.🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Dude! Thank you so much for this! My producer name is Firewurkz, and I will definitely use this video as my stradegy to build clientale! And of course, FOLLOW THROUGH!!! Peace out!
Glad you enjoyed it, Aiden! Thanks for watching and feel free to reach out if you get stuck with anything. -Dan
@@darklabelmusic Of course! Would you say manychat and Instagram DMs could be a good starting point to land clients?
@@darklabelmusic I love how you emphasize underrated market of producer-songwriter route and making custom music for artists and building relationships.
sucess!!!
well said my brother.
Thanks for watching 🙏
Question: would 'not' picking a specific genre or format be a plus? That was actually my thought process. My plan was just find people who have a vocal/instrument track and want a fully produced song and just do it for them. Of course I would ask them, "Who do you wanna sound like" and then just imitate that specific genre's sound.
I definitely would like your help homie let’s chop it up
6:56 lol ‘sucess’
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Appreciate ya!
Is using beat loops from like Groovepad and making a track from various loops - a form of producing or is that something most producers would laugh at?
Nothing wrong with starting out there but in our world a record producer is certainly capable of more than just putting some loops together (or generally strives to be more capable). The process of creating truly great songs is a combination of many different skills and experiences developed over a period of time. That's what gives a record producer a competitive advantage in the market and increases their probability of a long term career. But to answer your question... Yes that is technically a form of producing. Thanks for watching!
DJPain1 sent me here 🙏🏽💯
That was very cool of him! Welcome and enjoy the content.
@@darklabelmusic I definitely enjoyed your content man 💯🙏🏽
We appreciate it!
Hello, how are you? I'm trying to book a 15minutes call but the link is not workng. Could you help me please?
Hey Justin, got your email and will reply soon. Thanks for watching!
I want to take this oppurtunity to share my youtube. I'm uploading a new, full track with vocals, every 2 weeks.❤
I'm not a "type beat" producer I make full rock, metal and edm songs. I did the visuals and mixing as well.
Hope you will check it out sometime! 😁
🤓