Stop Selling Beats Online And Do THIS Instead (less saturated)

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Strangely I've have gone in the opposite direction recently. I've been producing songs with artists for 20 years, but now I've started the beat game. Writing a song with an artist can take months. I can write 2-3 beats a day. 1/3 of all music bought and streamed globally is HipHop. It may seem saturated but in reality it is the largest market. Doing both things seems more beneficial than choosing one over the other. Great vid tho, hopefully you inspire beat makers to become producers as well.

Refreshing to hear this. Been feeling there must be a better way for those of us who can do more than make a beat! Thanks for taking the time to share this out~

Thank you for this video. I was sort of thinking like this but you actually made sense of it and gave me clarity. I have to do some groundwork but this video helped a lot already.

I have a non-commercial studio. I don't advertise, I take on the projects I want, and I get plenty of work producing full tracks from scratch tracks and this has been an amazing side hustle. This is truly the way to go.

Hey, I'm starting out (almost) from scratch in music production and it's a good idea to market to artists. I didn't realize I could build artist-client relationships like that. Also, what you said here struck me as relevant "The cheaper the product or services, the harder it is to make money with it.", "The cheap market is the most competitive.", "The sequence of how you do business, matters.", "You can make more of an impact on the artist that you're working with." I'm going to add, that, when working with any artist a constructive critical review of their work is absolutely necessary (and they must be able to handle it), because If you can't address your own work constructively, then you fail to grow out of your comfort zone and you don't have the desire to break rules and experiment with your sound, you end up sounding like everyone else and enjoying the result of your lukewarm efforts. You become comfortably numb. Do you know that saying "Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."? There's a lot of truth to that.

Exactly what I needed to clarify my own view of the industry atm. Subbed.

man thats where im at and ready to move in that direction.thanks looking forward to more infi

Stumbled acrossed your videos and one of the first that’s very clear and can actually teach something valuable to producers who make music and enjoy that as their work/ way of life and making money

Thanks for this 🙏

The good thing about leasing beats is setting and forgetting. I still make money off beats I dropped 4 years ago, so each beat is like a small investment. 10 years from now I'll still have hundreds of beats being sold passively online. Not dissing your thought process, both methods are effective.

I'm in that beat leasing burnout mode myself. This video spoke to me. Thank you.

This actually makes a lot of sense, because I’ve posted beats online before, and had artist ask me if I had a beat that sounded “similar“ to something that I posted. They explained that they liked the chords, but wanted the bassline a little different, and use a different drum pattern. So I tried to go through my library, because I wasn’t in the mindset of actually working with artists to develop a song. 😂 I potentially lost a lot of clients when I first started out.

Thank You...this really helps me💯

Mind Blown! You changed my whole trajectory of life....

this is exactly what i've been thinking about doing since the beginning of the year. something about the beat selling system has always felt off to me. i've always been hands on. from showing people how to record, to pitching them alternative lines or melodies to sing. Currently, i'm at my peak. i can offer an incredible amount of value. i know how to produce, record, mix, master and i own a highly praised cinema camera, so i can shoot music videos. i understand cinematography well, i know how to edit, color grade and i have basic understanding of marketing. you've only solidified the belief that i should be rich with everything i'm currently able to do. i thought i was crazy think i wanted to charge $1500 for something like this. i know now, i'm probably worth more. imagine, one person. a one stop shop for everything. i don't even mind going of out my genres (classical hip hop and modern melodic pop trap). i like the challenge. thank you YOUTUBE algorithm, THANK YOU SIR.

I struggle making beats and getting back into music all together but this is great info bc I haven’t hear anything from this kinda perspective

Makes a lot of sense!

Wow for some reason I needed to see this!

New to beat selling...nice ..its gon be crazy when im up 🔥🔥