Free Indie Artist Website Tools and Resources

If you are an indie-artist like myself, then you probably realize how important it is for you to get your music heard. In order to accomplish this you will need to get as much exposure for yourself as possible.

Thankfully the internet offers many opportunities to do just that and much of it is free! But before you can take advantage of these opportunities, you will first need to record some of your original music. This can be done in any number of different ways. The choice you make will likely depend on your budget, preferences, time, and technical ability. Here are some recording options you might consider:

1. using a professional recording studio
2. using computer recording software such as CakeWalk
3. using a multi-track recorder, or other type of recording device

After you've recorded your songs you will have the ability to copy them from your CD onto your computer. The next step will be to convert each of the song files into an mp3 format.

Once your songs are available as mp3's you will be able to upload them onto any music site that offers free hosting for your songs. One of the sites that I am currently using to do this is Soundclick, but their are many other sites as well.

The nice thing about Soundclick is that it's absolutely free. Once signed up, you are given a place where you can tell others about yourself and your music. Your visitors can listen to, or download, any mp3 song file you decide to make available to them. It's completely up to you. You can even have your songs added to their free online radio station so you can see how well they do in the charts. Besides the great free services that are offered, the serious artist may also choose to purchase a more aggressive advertising campaign if they want to.

Soundclick recently added a new feature that allows the indie artist to sell mp3 song files either one at a time, or as a complete album. Though Soundclick receives a certain percentage of the profit from each song sold for this service, you can establish your own price and it's free to set up. This is a cost effective way for the indie artist to promote their music because it saves on the expense of creating, packaging, and marketing CD's while gaining the potential to reach a far greater audience with your music via the internet.

Anyway, if you want to see how it all works just click the link at the end of this article. Then scroll down the page until you see the blue banner link that says: Soundclick . Clicking that link will take you to my own indie artist page where you can check out all the various features they have to offer. Then, go ahead and take the plunge yourself. Just click here and get started today. You'll be glad you did.

Kathy Unruh is a singer/songwriter and webmaster of ABC Learn Guitar. She has been writing songs and providing guitar lessons to students of all ages for over 20 years. For free guitar lessons, plus tips and resources on songwriting, recording and creating a music career, please visit:http://www.abclearnguitar.com

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