| If you want to get signed by a record label, chances | | | | recording contract to become popular and get noticed. |
| are you have been focusing all of your efforts on | | | | With the internet and social media, you can promote |
| sending out demos and playing gigs where you know | | | | yourself and your music easily and for very little |
| scouts will be there. If you've done this for any length | | | | money. Get yourself out there as much as possible. |
| of time, you know that this route can quickly lead to | | | | Just forget about the record labels for awhile. Instead, |
| burnout and disappointment. Now you're probably | | | | get your own promotions together to get your music |
| thinking there has to be a better way to get a | | | | out there and heard by a large audience. |
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| try and submit demos to major record labels, how do | | | | in the community there. Start Facebook, Myspace, and |
| you know if they're even listening to them? You | | | | Twitter accounts and add people from your area. |
| probably suspect that most major labels are just | | | | When you have gigs booked, announce them to as |
| setting your demos aside and they're getting lost in the | | | | many people as possible. You will be surprised at how |
| shuffle. And you probably also suspect that unless you | | | | much this will affect your fanbase. And once you have |
| know someone at a label, getting a decision-maker to | | | | a large fanbase, your music will be hard to ignore. With |
| listen to your demo is next to impossible. So what | | | | the way social media affects everything these days, |
| should you do if your goal is to get signed by a record | | | | the chances of a major record label finding you in this |
| label? | | | | way is much more likely than playing gigs and hoping a |
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