The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your First Release
By Daniel Nesci
Planning, funding, creating and launching your first release is probably one of the most pinnacle steps any musician can take for their professional career and can even be just a confidence booster or bucket list item for a hobbyist musician. However, this process, no matter your desired result whether it’s going to be a serious commitment, a one-time thing or you’re unsure can be a daunting, nerve-racking and unfamiliar process. Through this mini-series ‘DAW to Dawn’ I’m going to be walking through everything I learnt across my first year of releasing music which covered two EPs and a single. Covering everything you should consider from day 1 to release day. Of course, these are only the approaches that I took and where I see relevant I will include points from other people I’ve discussed this with so you can feel free to disregard this in your pursuit of creating music, there isn’t one set path. The title of this series ‘From DAW To Dawn’ refers to DAW which is a digital workstation station for those of you unclear.
Continuing on. I’ll be honest, if you want to release music just for fun, there is going to be a lot of extra detail over the next few columns that you won’t necessarily need to consider and if you aren’t a musician at all this will just provide insight into what goes on for a new independent artist. If you are even considering releasing music just for fun, I implore you to do it. For nothing else, releasing music allows you to look back later in your life and see a snapshot of who you were at that point. Beyond that, releasing music can be personally liberating and it’s something unique that you made from nothing, not many people can honestly say they’ve bet on themselves and taken a chance like that so you can be proud to be one of a kind. I hope you find value in the following columns for your musical journey.
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