What differentiates an achiever from a simple dreamer? It is persistence and fervour. You need to hold the fierce determination and the courage to face risks in order to succeed. This is applicable despite the field of expertise you may want to to triumph over.
Making it big in any arena shall never be lacking of difficulties, especially when you like to participate in the dance music business. There's no need to worry, though. There are resources and examples that will point you the path to getting what every hopeful DJ hopes of - people grooving to their music and money dancing into the bank account. Melodious music to your ears!
Be Visible and Audible
Introduce yourself to the dance music industry. Nobody has succeeded by concealing their gifts and you'll certainly not be the first to break the mould. In anything that you do, make sure that this is seen, heard, acknowledged and praised. You can follow these suggestions:
Be a member of online societies catering to dance music aficionados. Nowadays, you should tap the power of social connections to your benefit including getting to know other DJs and clubbers, especially industry honchos looking for fresh talent.
Be seen in dance clubs and halls. These are the places where music aficionados and producers regularly assemble for some events. By doing so, not only will they have the chance to meet you, but you can also be introduced to the big guns and their networks.
Already determined dawn began to lay
In place across a cloud the slender ray
For prying beneath and forcing the lids of sight,
And loosing the pent-up music of overnight.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Utilize the web and all its freebies. As YouTube and dropyourtalent.com are becoming more recognized, you may upload your work there and ask your fans to spread the word. Of course, be responsible for the excellence and quantity of your music videos.
Make your own online domain! With this, you'll have an online space devoted to your profile, your work, your dance life. Remember, you're your greatest marketing tool.
When seeking to be renowned, tentativeness is best exchanged with boldness. This is the one definite shot at capturing a chance of the fame and fortune that the business has to offer.
Keep Your Audience in Mind
It is true, the battle is stiff; therefore, you have to stand out. You have to have your own kind of music, one that carries your signature. Otherwise, you might just end up being a copycat.
Take the recognized Tiesto. During his early years, he created hardcore/gabber tracks then shifted to new beat and acid house before becoming among the notable producers of trance and electronic dance music.
Architecture is a chained and fettered art. Far from being “frozen music,” it is an art constantly attempting to realize in solid, stable form those effects which music is able to conjure up in an instant—effects which succeed each other rapidly during the progress of a musical work. music can attain the colossal in a way which, in architecture, only the rarest opportunities render even remotely possible. music can, in a few moments, admit us through vast portals into avenues, courts and halls of infinite extent and variety. music can suddenly raise up an entire structure and, by the device of modulation, lift it on to a podium, abruptly recess its facades and turn them bodily into the sunshine. music can etch silhouettes ten times more intricate than those of Dresden or London City, repeat them, increase or reduce them, hurl them into the distance or bring them before us in precise detail. Most of the essentials of architecture—mass, rhythm, texture, outline—are within music’s power. Almost, the two arts are the same art, the one able to express nearly everything which the imagination is capable of conceiving, the other bound by the rigours of economy and use.
—John Newenham Summerson (b. 1904)
All the great DJs - Tiesto, Paul van Dyke, Armin Van Buuren, Fatboy Slim, to name a few - have to find their unique sound and so should you. In this kind of industry, you should find your own beat, literally and fiquratively.
Be it known, on the contrary, that you're not playing only for yourself. Dance music requires other people so they can sway to the tune. That said, you have to keep with the trends in music while making use of those trends to your own kind of music that will ultimately sound like you invented the whole thing.
Towards this goal, you have to practice, practice, practice and produce, produce, produce. You should never grow tired of turning that turntable, listening to the beat and mixing your music. When the day is through, you have to do all of these again tomorrow; there's just no turning back.
Soon enough, you will see yourself at the pinnacle of success in dance music!
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