It's super scary to walk into the studio and show the engineer your song. Pitching to the producer!
I've seen this battle from both sides, I've been an artist pitching my music, and I've also had hundreds of artists play me their song for the first time before we begin recording. 

This episode is all about the role of the producer, what are they thinking while you're pitching your song. How can they help you? and how can you grow in confidence so that this process gets easier and easier?

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artist 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, and growing an audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea) 

In working with hundreds of artists in the studio I've made some observations around the different ways we view life. More over, I've noticed we all have different drives, and our emotions are attached to different values.

Smart Goals Download - https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

I've categorised them in this episode by being past, present, and future.

Past - Memories and legacy is important to you
Present - Live in the moment, make today great
Future - Plan for a better tomorrow.

Understanding how your brain ticks helps you to best plan out your music accordingly, and make sure you are effectively chasing music in a way that fulfils you as an artist.

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artist 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, and growing an audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea)  

I sat down with local artists Megan Woods, to chat about her goals! We discovered that her main goal for the next three months was to get her website published and working for her. So in this episode we ran this goal through the SMART goal method to make sure this goal is; SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ACTIONABLE, REALISTIC, & TIME BOUND. Checking your goal against these guidelines ensures your goal can be reached, and helps give you the motivation to go about achieving it. We also chat about about a few potential obstacles that may come up, and brainstorm ways to get around them. 

Download your SMART goal template - https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artist 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, and growing an audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea)

Should your studio recording match your live performance? This is a common question I work through with artists in the studio all the time. Weighing up that natural approach that feels honest, vs the produced approach that enhances your music and gives you a more polished result.

Like everything creative, I don't think there's a right and wrong, but there certainly is an ideal way for YOU to go about recording your music depending on what you want to achieve with your recording. 

In this episode I do a full break down of the two approaches and breakdown the pros and cons for each, so you can decide the best way forward for your music.

I have a bunch of free resources available to help you move your music forward, they can be found here https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artist 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, and growing an audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea)

We all have desires for our music, ideals that we would love to achieve one day. Today I wanted to help you walk towards those ambitions by setting smart goals. Smart goals are a way to qualify your goal and make sure it's something you WILL be able to achieve.

Smart Goal Download - https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

You goal could be anything from, getting more gigs, to getting 10,000 streams, or recording your own single. This smart goal method will make sure that your goal is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time bound. When you run your music goal through this qualification system, you make sure that it's something you can achieve and tick off, rather then something you just dream about.

Grab my linked smart goal download to work through your own goals

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artist 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, and growing an audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea) 

Lockdowns are extremely tough on the music artist. When venues close down, love music is the first thing to go! It seems like an uncertain road back to the regular, dependable gig.. So what can we do to make sure our music survives the lockdown? How can we lock down proof our music, and keep walking forwards when the world around us stops? Thats what I'm chatting about in this episode.

This is taken from a live stream I hosted last week in the middle of a lockdown we had here, and it's a god conversation, I think it will help you out a lot, and hopefully bring you some encouragement, and a way forward.

In this episode you will learn
1. How to have a go getter approach to your music
2. The importance of getting your music online
3.  How to build a platform that you're in control of.

Robbie Mortimer Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQGv0vwk98BWDB8oiATyRuA

Download my free songwriting guide! Https://www.dottedeight.com/artists It’s a check list style doc to make sure your songs engage with your audience, and grows your fan base.

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artists 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, growing and audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea)

Music videos are a great way to grow your audience. Video is such an engaging form of media, and it's set up to work across pretty much all of the social platforms. It's much, much easier to get someone to watch your video, then to go across to Spotify and listen to your music.

I've been getting into video a lot lately, and I really believe in it's power to grow your music and your fan base. So I wanted to unpack a little bit about them, and cover some of the different types you could consider using for your music.

In this episode you'll learn.
- Why video is the best form of media
- Which type of video is right for you and your journey
- That great video is more achievable than you thought

Download my free songwriting guide! Https://www.dottedeight.com/artists It’s a check list style doc to make sure your songs engage with your audience, and grows your fan base.

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artists 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, growing and audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro/Outro music by Robbie Mortimer

I'm privileged to be able to work with a ton of great songwriters, and work on a lot of great songs here in the studio. This has helped me to see what makes a great song, and what takes away from a great song. While it's difficult to simply teach, 'how to write a good song'  or 'how to write a hit song'. I can teach about a few common songwriting mistakes I see, and talk about how you can avoid them in your songwriting. This will be a big step towards writing more professional sounding song.

Download my free songwriting guide! Https://www.dottedeight.com/artists It’s a check list style doc to make sure your songs engage with your audience, and grows your fan base.

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artists 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, growing and audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea)

Don’t stop ‘being’ thankful, but we need to shift our responses from simply being ‘thank you’ I’m talking about reply to comments on your social posts (Facebook, instagram, or YouTube comments). Somebody writes in a tells you how much they love your new song, the easiest response is ‘thank you so much’. What we don’t realise is that this is killing the conversation! It’s not giving us a chance to grow that relationship and build connection with an appreciative audience, nor is it allowing Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube to pick up our content as an engaging post and put it in front of more people. 

In this episode I have a look at how we should handle positive comments to start and engaging conversation, build and grow connection, and spike the platform algorithm to get further reach from out posts.

Download my free songwriting guide! https://www.dottedeight.com/artists It’s a check list style doc to make sure your songs engage with your audience, and grows your fan base.

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artists 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, growing and audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea) 

A question I get asked all the time is 'how do I get my music on Spotify' or 'can you help me get my music on to Spotify' So in this video I do exactly that. I explain the entire process, and share my screen as upload a song to Spotify and Apple Music.

The process seems daunting because it's different to everywhere else we upload, Instagram or YouTube we just upload our music or video and we're in control. For Spotify we're having to pay an aggregator (a digital distributor) to do that for us. In this video I explain what that distributor does, and why we need them.

The digital distribution company talk about in this video are
Gyrostream
Tunecore
CD Baby
Ditto
Distro Kid

If you've never done this before, this guide will take you step by step through the entire process, and hopefully answer all your questions.

If you're a songwriter, grab my free songwriting guide here https://www.dottedeight.com/artist It's like a checkbox style guide to make sure your song is ready to connect with your audience.

I record and film all my podcast episodes at the Dotted Eight Studio.

Intro and Outro Music by Robbie Mortimer