2013-03-16, 03:04 AM
For me, what happened was that I put something I wrote into a maple video I made years and years ago, which somehow got over 100,000 views, and since then, whenever I DID make maple videos (which hasn't been forever), I stuck things that I wrote and played myself in them. Some people enjoyed it, and went to my blog to listen to other things that I've written, and that was that. I never really did any advertising other than posting the video on some maple forums to get feedback and other than that, I haven't done anything.
It really depends what you consider to be "a lot of views". Something I just stuck up on youtube now has 2.6k views after 3 years without ever telling anyone about it. They just came from people who watched my maple videos 7-8 years ago (somehow) I think...I really have no idea. I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I actually did something with it, instead of just making those 6 videos (most of the views came from 3 videos) and stopping there. Oh well.
My opinion though? Good music speaks for itself. In a society where people want to share everything, when you make something that people love, they'll share it naturally. "Hey, I stumbled across this awesome song. Lemme show you" "Woah, its so cool! Im gonna show my friends too, because I think they'd like it!" Naturally, you have to find the start, and there is an element of luck to it, but I've always believed that instead of worrying about an audience, worry about the quality of your work (not to say that what you have is bad. I don't listen to electronic music much, so I wouldnt be able to judge). A very idealistic view of it, I know. However, that's just my thoughts on the matter. Good luck!
It really depends what you consider to be "a lot of views". Something I just stuck up on youtube now has 2.6k views after 3 years without ever telling anyone about it. They just came from people who watched my maple videos 7-8 years ago (somehow) I think...I really have no idea. I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I actually did something with it, instead of just making those 6 videos (most of the views came from 3 videos) and stopping there. Oh well.
My opinion though? Good music speaks for itself. In a society where people want to share everything, when you make something that people love, they'll share it naturally. "Hey, I stumbled across this awesome song. Lemme show you" "Woah, its so cool! Im gonna show my friends too, because I think they'd like it!" Naturally, you have to find the start, and there is an element of luck to it, but I've always believed that instead of worrying about an audience, worry about the quality of your work (not to say that what you have is bad. I don't listen to electronic music much, so I wouldnt be able to judge). A very idealistic view of it, I know. However, that's just my thoughts on the matter. Good luck!