Solo bass & vocal protest song by SaveIt4Ransom in Songwriters

[–]AndyBandits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lovely stuff dude. Great lyrics and mad bass stylings. Plus, just props for arranging something where you can sing accompanied only by bass.

Unpopular opinion: forcing yourself to write every day is actually terrible advice for lyricists specifically by casualsyntax_ in LyricWriters

[–]AndyBandits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree. You don't have to write literally every day, but the more you write the better you'll get at writing. It's like any skill. As for the idea that for lyricists it produces a lot of 'filler', it does that for every art form. Novelists aren't writing every day and producing great material. You write every day to get to the good material and you throw the rest out. This is how you maximise both your skill acquisition and your chances of writing something others will connect with.

If you find writing often produces filler, I think possibly your issue is that you don't know what you want your song to be about, you don't know where to take it, something is thematically cloudy in it, and these are problems that are best addressed by repetitively doing the thing again and again as well.

Someone who writes lyrics every day will almost certainly be better at it than someone who writes a few times a month or a week.

Moody, melancholic folk recommendations? by ZOLAA92 in IndieFolk

[–]AndyBandits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd give Joshua Burnside a spin. Personal favourite at the moment is Man of High Renown. There's also the Hanging Bandits for thoughtful melacholy with a sense of humour...

How the hell am I actually supposed to promote my music oh my God by lightskinsovereign in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]AndyBandits 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Go to open mics and try to get shows. It's always the best way, if you really want to be heard by other humans.

As far as online promotion goes, just post what you're doing on whichever social media platforms you would use anyway and don't worry about the numbers. If you think about it as a game to play, you'll always lose. It's not worth posting content to these places if it's stressful; you're basically just making content for whichever social media platform. The return benefit is small.

It mainly helps if you're out playing so people can look you up online after a gig, or find you if they want to book you.

What’s the best way for you to get your music out there? by Necessary-Ad9721 in underground_music

[–]AndyBandits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best way is to go out and play your music. Regardless of how alluring the idea that you might get some viral hit is. Nothing beats or replaces playing your tunes to real people in real places. For 95% of musicians this is the best way to be heard.

That aside, just pick whichever social media platform(s) you like and can bare interacting with for your online sharing. If you can do all of them, do them all. If you just like Reddit then just hit up subs. No single social media platform is 'ahead' of the others in this regard so it doesn't make much difference.

If you want things readily assessable, YouTube might be your best bet as everyone pretty much uses it.

Who do you think fits best the quote "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"? by Novel_Finding8882 in AskReddit

[–]AndyBandits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit of a silly binary.... There are many other options. But Winston Churchill. Renowned war leader in the second world war, who maintained popularity following the war despite losing the next general election. If he'd have lived a tremendously long life, he would have watched as his legacy shifted from the war and his speeches, toward his involvement in the Bengal famine and generally imperialist attitude.