Since I'm not a singer, (but I sing my songs anyway,) I have found that treating my songs the same way I treat my manuscripts, (novels) is the best way to go. That means, yes, I am revising them.
The good thing about Soundcloud is that you can replace any file without interrupting the song's playlist or any of the stats each song or playlist has compiled. (For me, a "playlist" is the same thing as an album.) But it's not the same thing to Soundcloud. Albums to Soundcloud are real albums produced by a real recording label and released or "dropped" by those same producers.
I'm just a loner doing everything myself. But so what, I'm getting it done. Surely not with the same production values as a real recording studio, but hey, I'm not a real singer and as far as I'm concerned, the music is sounding great anyway.
Well, they're my songs, so they better sound great. And they do. I actually have 45 followers now. I know it's a far cry from 45,000 followers. In case you don't know, a "follower" is someone who has heard a song or two and decided he or she likes it enough to follow the artist to hear more of his or her songs later. And yes, some people are actually "liking" some of my songs.
One of the good things about Soundcloud is that it compiles the number of times each song has been played by someone other than me. Some of my songs are in the triple digits now. I don't know how anyone knows about my songs. I suppose people surf through the Soundcloud "line up" and choose songs at random in the genre of the music they prefer. And they can click on the heart icon which means they like the song. Some people are doing that too, even people who are not followers.
Sure, artists want people to like his or her works, and that goes for any kind of art. Whether it's fine art like drawings, paintings, or sculpture, or a performing art like music, it doesn't matter. But the bottom line is that I like my music, and that's good enough for me.
So if anyone who's reading this happens to listen to a song or two of mine, I can only hope you will like it too. Just click any of the "album" covers in the right margin of the blog. Just be forewarned. I won't sound like Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin. But I will sound like me.
