Music Marketing in the New Music Economy

The new music economy is here with digital music distribution, online sheet music, Youtube marketing, booking a tour online, and more. Here are many ideas to help musicians begin to wade through this new world and find success with DIY music marketing.

A collection of music marketing ideas and anecdotes to help musicians achieve success. My brother and I have achieved many of our musical goals of getting our original music out and selling, using Youtube as a marketing tool, start several music festivals, sell sheet music online, start a successful record label, record with many famous musicians, and more.

With over 100 million songs streamed and downloaded, pianist Michael Silverman and his brother, drummer Rob SIlverman, have founded several music festivals, published instructional music books and CDs, performed all over North America with their classical-jazz show "Bach to the Future," scored hundreds of movie and TV themes, recorded with a number of well-known musicians such as Dweezil Zappa, John Patitucci, Jennfer Batten and others, and fulfilled a number of their musical dreams. Now Michael and Rob are sharing their experiences to give others an understanding of what has worked and not worked for them in their musical journey.