what was the biggest challenge for the aspiring musician
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People often talk about the “good old days”.
But I don’t believe there was ever a Golden Age in music. From day one, artists have often gotten the short end of the stick.
If you were one of the fortunate few, you enjoyed fortune and fame. Though I’m not convinced fortune and fame is always a good thing.
Moreover, in what people refer to as the good old days, most artists were exploited and taken advantage of. Things haven’t exactly changed a whole lot here in the digital age.
But if there is such a thing as a Golden Age in music, I believe it’s now.
We’ve never been freer to create, distribute, market and sell our music, and we can even do it all from the comfort of our own homes. Wow.
But this certainly isn’t to suggest there aren’t any challenges today, because there are. If anything, the challenges we’re facing are colossal.
Want to know what they are? Read on.
1. Technology
I’ve worked with enough musicians to know that technology frustrates a lot of people – especially those over a certain age.
Look, you and I might not have that problem. You made it onto the blog, at least – good on you. But there are plenty of people who, if they landed on this blog post right now, wouldn’t even know what they were looking at.
And, when you think about the typical digital rollout for musicians these days, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that some might struggle with the technical aspect of a music career.
Here are but a few examples of items musicians must be competent in today (especially if they don’t have anyone helping them):
File sharing. At a minimum, musicians need to know how to use Dropbox and be able to share folders and files with bandmates, collaborators, reviewers and so on. These days, there are plenty of gatekeepers and influencers that expect you to go through SubmitHub, Fluence or SoundCloud. That list of apps only gets longer by the day.
Web and graphic design. I started building websites and designing graphics when I was 14 (when Yahoo was still the biggest website online). As intuitive and straightforward as the tools have become, I can only imagine the pain a newbie would experience when trying to set something up on their own.
Social media. There are plenty of people addicted to social media. But for someone who isn’t tech savvy, it’s an utter nightmare. They have so many questions. Who’s on here? Why would I use this? What’s the point of social media? And so on.