My Next Step In Music

What do you think will be the next step in the music industry?

The Big Change: What will be most impactful in coming years, in my opinion, will be that listeners may have a choice between music created by humans and music created by computers. Sony has a lab that is currently using machine learning to allow computers to study music and create its own. Although they can’t create an entire song from scratch yet, it’s only a matter of time before you turn on the radio and hear a song derived entirely from ones and zeros. I personally believe that the organic elements of music are what give it life, so for me this a big change that I will have to navigate one note at a time.Some Other Industry Shifts:For Listeners: The Music Genome Project and other projects like it will help create more diverse tastes by automatically queuing up songs that are new to the listener; and may push the boundaries of what they might have selected on their own. Similarly, listeners will be able to reach greater depths within their favorite genres by being exposed to songs they would’ve never found without these projects. I’m personally very excited by this because I love when I find a new song that syncs perfectly with my tastes.For the Industry: Expect to see more intimate relationships between artists and streaming services. Artists feel cheated by low revenues from certain online sources that make music easily available at low cost, such as YouTube. Lyor Cohen just moved into the YouTube scene to try to fight for artists’ rights. Tidal is another example of a service that tried to take a stand for artists and maintain their creative liberties.For Artists: I expect to see more artists make a move towards making exclusive releases on the streaming service that they feel best defends them. The Tidal article above points out how Taylor Swift and Adele have withheld new releases from Spotify, while Tidal has won exclusive releases from Kanye (among others), and is also the only streaming service that provides music by Prince. Creating and releasing a physical album to stores will be a thing of the past. Artists will have greater flexibility in choosing who and where they release their new songs and albums.

What should be the next step if I have a great taste in music?

This is quite the question…What exactly are you asking? Next step towards what?Also, please try to understand that “great taste in music” is completely.. COMPLETELY… subjective. There is actually no such thing as having “great taste in music”, there is only the music that you like. This will be different for everyone.For example, you take 100 people who all believe they have “great taste in music” but they would likely all like completely different bands and artists or genres and styles.Do you understand this?

I made a song what should be my next step?

Congrats that you composed a song. So the first step is to ask yourself if you are satisfied with the song, if yes, you should go to some studio, get it recorded and edited. Then you can either run to record labels, ask them to give you a chance and try your luck or you can approach some local bands if you already don't have one and make some money out of it. Don't forget to publish yourself, make your song work as a portfolio for youHave fun.

What’s the next step for music consumption after streaming?

I think we need to address a bigger gorilla in the room first - will the music industry survive streaming?Because IMHO the current business model is not sustainable. Progress has been made to thwart the wholesale theft of digital music but we remain largely unprotected as far as the digital format is concerned.And so far - the remaining labels have helped the streaming providers much more than the artists.If recorded work is successfully relegated to commodity status - like a calling card or something - it will rapidly fade from existence. As labels have disappeared, so have recording budgets. No money - no recording. So whether recordings drive performance sales or vice versa - we need both elements to be economically viable to survive.If we stick with streaming as a primary vehicle for distribution - future enhancements would likely involve tech enhancements and strategic marketing/cross-promotional endeavors. But at the end of it all - artists - including songwriters - need a sustainable business model in place.

What is the next big phase of music? Are we likely to stick with hip hop & pop, or has something else been spotted on the horizon?

Very tough to say.According to Musicmap, the latest kind of music is synth wave and EDM trap/trapstep (as well as the continuing ‘trap rap’ genre ala Zillakami, though that isn’t classified as a genre as of yet).Genres like Country, Blues and Techno appear to have not had any kind of recent influence as of late, but as art swings around in cycles, perhaps we could see a reemergence of such music?My guess is that it’s still too easy to tell, and I’ve not seen anything beyond Indie circles attempting anything in other genres. Only time will tell, I’m personally hoping for a resergence of blues, with more classical musicians taking centre stage in a more modern scene. I doubt it though.

Once you have your DAW, what's the next step in music production? What do I start with?

You should definetly get a professional AD/DA-converter first and then start investing on other equipments such as synths, preamps, audio mixers ect.

Whose going to be the next big thing in Hip Hop music?

Check out Artist Keenan Just In Case . You’re hearing it here first.