u/natasharomanon

I’m doing a release show for my next song and I even managed to get some friends to open for it and I’m terrified no one will show up, or worse, like less than 10 people. I’ve only sold one ticket and it’s to my roommate. It’s a cheap price and all the money goes towards the artists, I’m not taking a cut, and I have free flower seeds to give to people for coming (it fits with my song). I don’t want to let the other acts down and embarrass myself with no one showing.

Has anyone dealt with this before? I’m trying my best to promote on TT, Instagram, even YouTube and putting it on event brite.
I’ve already done rehearsals for it. I’m just scared :/ do I put ads on it??

I’m scared that no one will show up, so I figured I’d post it here. If you like Phoebe Bridgers, Lizzy McAlpine, and stripped back/acoustic sets, I think you’ll like this :) I’m celebrating a song of mine I’m putting out that’s inspired by them and they’ll be covers as well, and other local bands/artists! All the money goes towards the artist so you’re directly supporting live music and I’m giving out free flower seeds to plant that goes with my song.

I hope someone see it and is interested, as an independent artist it’s hard to get people! :)

Looking for some guidance and curious

The gigs I’ve done in the past only paid if I reached enough ticket sales. So no money for me lmao

Edit: should clarify, I’ve also released songs solo under my name, and promote on social media too. I don’t even know how to pitch it with that in mind

Hi! So I have songs that I’ve made and performed with musicians that are no longer in my life, and have been trying to set up a band that is fine with playing my own songs (under my personal name) alongside some covers (for context, I’m a singer/songwriter? I’m not great at piano or guitar but I can get by). I wanted to know if anyone else has had a band but it’s “you” as a solo artist if that makes any sense.

Side question;
Is your band also cool with you making music with other musicians that are on a higher skill level than them? My band mates (minus guitarist, been SO hard to find one that stays) are at an intermediate ish level and are still learning their instruments. I don’t know if they are interested or have the capabilities I want to write a song together, maybe for the future, but for now I’m interested in playing my stuff and covers.

I may be insane for doing this, but due to an extra long weekend at work im thinking of going from July 2nd-July 5th/6th to do some first time camping. I've been trying to find camp ground and so far can only find Redwood Meadow that would let me stay the whole duration there. Other camp sites like Upper Stony Creek, Quaking Aspen, etc only have either Sat- Sun, or Thurs-Fri, or risk doing FF at Holey Meadow, etc etc.

I really want to solo travel and take advantage of my work being closed and see some nice fucking trees... I've even looked into hostels.

Any tips? Any other places I should look into instead? Or avoid SEKI at all costs??

The campsite I had in my cart vanished and am looking for last minute camping (I know, horrible time to do last minute AND on a holiday weekend)...

I've never been camping before, much less FF, but I wanted to get thoughts on going there 2 days before the holiday to a FF in Sequoia, if anyone has done it before, etc.

Any other campsite recs would be nice too!

Edit: forgot to add that I want to see the big trees and the usual tourist sights

I know... I shouldnt be looking for last minute 4th of july campsites but my plans fell through and I have nothing to do

I haven't been camping since that one time I did it in high school, and figured I could pool together friends' stuff and buy some things (even rent? Where do you go to rent?).

I would love to go up North (around Yosemite, Sequoia, etc) for forest types of areas (not desert I don't want to burn) and know people reserve months in advance (again, plans fell through last minute). Any recommendations of what I can do? Any spots you recommend for a beginner? I've done some digging and found hipcamp and am looking into that

edit: Think I was able to find a campsite in Sequoia that's in the same campsite ground, but would be physically moving from spot A to B for the 2nd to third night, then they have a FF for the 4th of July itself. How does FF work? I'm having high hopes I can snag it if I'm physically there from the previous night to get it, but not sure how the system works

Hi! I recently graduated with a minor in music technology and since then (and even before graduating) I don't have opportunities to do live sound set up/mixing/recording. I used to do live mixing a bit for ensembles on campus, set up for recording audio and video in venues, I can feel my knowledge of it fading (even the basic stuff) and i really hate that!!

Do you have tip son how to keep to keep things fresh even when you don't have opportunities? To remember what terms mean and how to connect things? Where can I find opportunities that are not high stakes to relearn again? Any advice is helpful

Wondering if anyone has done open mics with just a backing track even though it has instruments in it (not a rap song, a song with drums, guitar, piano, etc). the artists I worked with to record the songs are all off the face of the earth doing their own thing and I am not great at guitar to do my songs in public. I've gotten the advice of just singing over my own backing tracks but don't want it to look... bad when I could have a guitarists or others up there with me, but honestly my music network is so small. I really want to grow a community though and everyone says to do open mics and such to do that

So has anyone done it before? How was it? Would you reccomend it and tell me to get over my fear/embarrassment?

It’s been about a week of my Google ads for my music video, ($25 over the span of 2 weeks) and I’m not sure what exactly went wrong but there’s literally been 2 clicks with thousands of impressions. I

I’m not sure what went wrong or if I’m looking at the wrong area. I got the suggestion to do unlisted clips of the music video that will then redirect to my actual music video as to not have the ads fuck with the watch time metrics which in turn could tank YouTube’s push of it. The video clips are getting views, and I’ve never done Google ads before but tried to follow Andrew’s tutorial.

Any help would be SO appreciated!

I started a campaign with clips of my music video and it doesn’t seem to be doing any conversions. I posted 4 clips unlisted to my channel as I heard this is a good way to not affect watch time on my music video itself. I’m getting lots of impressions and true views, but only one singular conversion. Have no idea what’s going wrong with it, it’s my first time doing google ads.

Any tips?
I’m willing to share what the clips are that I put ads on if anyone can help