Music is all about passion. And this passion allows you to make enough effort to turn it into a career and become an artist. However, it’s not that easy for everyone. Some people listen to music and feel connected with the rhythms, but they find themselves clueless when they hold an instrument.
It doesn’t mean that they don’t have a passion for music, but it merely indicates that what they are missing is proper guidance and someone to hold their hand and show them the right way. Of course, those who manage to create amazing tunes eventually make music their career, but it doesn’t mean you can’t make it your career if you don’t know how to compose music yet. In your own time, you can learn everything.
So, in addition to your interest and passion to learn music, here are five ways that can help you become a musical artist right in your home.
Without further ado, let’s begin.
Select Your Musical Niche
Selecting your musical niche means figuring out what kind of music you want to play. There are many options, and the selection of each one of them depends on your likeness. In other words, you need to land on a genre that you’d feel happy playing for the rest of your life.
Some people like keyboards, some like guitars, others like drums, and some want to be the lead vocal artist and want to let other people handle the instruments. First, you need to believe that all of that is possible. There is no need to think that you would probably not be able to play the guitar, or you’d probably be able to understand the piano.
Something that can help you select your genre is your historical music taste. What do you listen to the most? Jazz, acoustic, metal, opera, or soft rock? Based on your taste, you will easily identify the genre you listen to the most, and that’s why you want to play as a musician.
Start Taking Lessons
Once you have landed on what kind of music you want to play, it is time for you to learn composing it. For instance, if you’d like to be a drummer, you can take drum lessons in your home. Similarly, you can opt for lessons of different musical instruments—whatever you like.
On the other hand, you need to know that you can become a vocal artist if you are interested in it. Some people believe that since they don’t have a “heavenly” voice, they cannot become singers, which is not true. Every skill needs polishing to become presentable.
Similarly, you can take in home voice lessons and work on your vocal range. Eventually, your singing voice will get better and presentable, which will allow you to create and perform your songs in front of the audience.
You might need to use the internet to learn music, and you don’t need lessons at all. But the truth is, in-home lessons are very different and much more advantageous than internet-based learning. Why? Well, suppose you are on YouTube, learning to play the guitar. The YouTuber will let you know the chords and how to play them, but would he listen to you play a chord? No. Therefore, he doesn’t know how you are performing, and he wouldn’t cause any improvement.
On the other hand, lessons at your home will keep full track of your learning schedule, your performance level, and your improvement while simultaneously making you a better musician with every lesson.
Set Realistic Goals
You need to set goals for yourself. Goals are one of the best ways to accomplish a target. When you define a target and put your integrity at stake in the struggle to achieve it, you not only become a better person and a better hustler, but you also start realizing the worth of what you are trying to achieve. You start assigning value to your skill. And you take pride in what you have achieved.
All these aspects are very important in music. But, first, you must know what you are doing is important and valuable, and that’s the only way you will ever be able to understand it and create it most wonderfully.
If you are learning to play the drums, set a goal for yourself to learn to play a specific tune in three weeks. Then, put your whole effort into realizing that goal. That way, even if you cannot achieve that goal, you will still improve significantly.
It is also essential to set realistic goals. Otherwise, you will never achieve any of your goals, and it will end up demotivating you, pushing you towards thinking about giving up. For instance, if you set a goal to learn to play the drums like John Bonham in 2 months, you are setting an unrealistic goal. There is no way you can become as good as a legend drummer in just eight weeks. It will come out as a pathetic attempt to presenting your skill as something more than what it is. You don’t want to do that as a sincere musician.
There is no way you can become as good as a legend drummer in just eight weeks. It will come out as a pathetic attempt to presenting your skill as something more than what it is. You don’t want to do that as a sincere musician.
Therefore, take notes that it is important to set goals, and it is even more important to set realistic goals so that you can achieve them.
Never Stop Practicing
If you are serious about your passion for music, it is essential that you practice as much as you can. If you were learning on your own, then you will practice by yourself for improvement. But if you were taking lessons, don’t think that your learning capacity will end as soon as the lesson does. No matter how long or short your lessons are, it would be best if you kept practicing by yourself.
Focus on improving yourself, concentrating on composing new tunes, and making yourself attached to the instrument as you are with your heartbeat. A true musician never stops creating music. Because music never truly ends. You can make a billion tunes, and the next day, someone will make a different tune. That shows how the music is a vast landscape, and the more you walk, the more you discover.
Wrap Up :
Once you get a grip on music composition, it is time for you to start performing. Start with friends and family, then take it to small gatherings and parties. Eventually, you will be up on a stage with a large crowd watching you perform.
You don’t need to write your things to perform. You can perform covers and mashups at the start—be creative. Your primary goal is to let people know that you can perform and know what you are doing. Then, once you have gained a little bit of local recognition, you can write your songs and tunes and perform them with pride.
As a musician, you need to gain exposure because you will eventually get discovered and signed by a record label and start your professional musical journey.
