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I have 3 original music albums, what to do?

by natostanco
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I have 3 original music albums I made about 3 years ago with my electric bass, they are not best quality, and all instrumental, but they are 100% original and created by me
Should I offer them as freebie or would they worth 3$?
#albums #music #original
  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    My first inclination would be to tell you that in a world filled with people who can't muster up the $1.20 to buy a single song from itunes, good luck trying to sell a whole album for $3.

    Of course, I've also seen indie bands garner $5 for their demo cd's after their shows with ease, and of course they sell out.

    That said, why exactly would you give it away as a freebie? Do you have some marketing motive behind doing so? Are you trying to build your name in a certain music community? Of course you may not even have a marketing motive and just want someone else to hear your music.
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  • Profile picture of the author natostanco
    i was thinking all 3 albums for 3$, 1$ each, but then srsly, freebie would be fine
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  • Profile picture of the author vtotheyouknow
    Originally Posted by natostanco View Post

    I have 3 original music albums I made about 3 years ago with my electric bass, they are not best quality, and all instrumental, but they are 100% original and created by me
    Should I offer them as freebie or would they worth 3$?

    Hey dude! I used to be a professional musician and have a bunch of recordings that I'd like to do something with as well.

    There are a number of things you can do.

    You can sell your music on sites like bandcamp.com, but you're going to need to have some kind of following for this to work.

    Then there are music libraries that you can submit your music to. These will require your recordings to be professional quality. But if a filmmaker or advertiser licenses your music for a commercial or something, you'll get paid. Some musicians write exclusively for the libraries.

    You could even start your own music library if you were so inclined


    My last thought is that if you're particularly talented at bass, maybe you can create a superior "how to play bass" product than what's available out there and go with that.

    Whatever you do, viva la musica e bona fortuna!
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  • Profile picture of the author dsouravs
    howz their quality.....U can load them at audiojungle....
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    It's kind of hard to suggest something with such little information. It would really help if you had a goal you wanted to achieve through the distribution of this music, whether free or paid. But I'm going to say if the music is your passion you can establish yourself or your skillset by handing these out for free to set up the opportunity to distribute tutorials and etc afterwards. But then again, this is just one of the possible options to such an open ended question...you may want to figure out what you ultimately want to achieve before doing anything with the albums.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    Originally Posted by natostanco View Post

    ...they are not best quality...
    There is a problem right there. People will tolerate low quality video over low quality audio.

    Can you re-play and re-record them at a higher quality?
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    • Profile picture of the author natostanco
      not really, it would take too much time, the only option I think is offer for free but for what?
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  • Profile picture of the author laustinseo
    record them at a higher quality, upload vids of you performing them on youtube, sell each song for like 50 cents and the whole album for $2.50
    depending on your views aand comments adjust your prices
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  • Profile picture of the author r2r
    First of all try on people... If the like your album that definitely they will like your album and they will select your album. Don't go directly to them.
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