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Originally Posted by brandondrury  In our town, there are at least 3 music stores that gladly carry local cds. It's more of an issue with the people who buy cds. No one will buy a cd unless it's a band they've heard of. |
well......for rock yes
for classical its the composer
there are three things to deal with :
1 you have to be good enough
2 they have to hear about you - promotion and advertising etc
3 they have to want your product - dont try to sell hiphop to the aarp folks or classical to teenyboppers
1 - stop kidding yourself - if you learned guitar from some dvd lessons you probably have a lot more to learn - especially if you are also composing/arranging not just playing covers
2 - this is the hard part - you may be the next 3rd tenor but you will have to start small and grow your fan base - leave cds in the recycled music store (no real cd stores left in our city!) -- get gigs , get audience, more gigs, build audience, start locally, spread regionally, and hope. of course have a web site, newsletter, free samples, etc.
do freebie concerts for charity, get news coverage. you gotta promote promote promote the pr and then do it some more.
3 - the bigger your target market audience the better your chances. want to experiment with something new you may not find anyone who cares but you and your mother. figure out what is going to be big 5 years from now and go after that full time.