5 ways to succeed as a musician in 2024

[@BedroomLofiMusic]

I know you used it as an example, but I did just hit 100,000 monthly listeners because of your tips. I started watching your videos before I released my first song, and with keeping my eye on the goal, and with the motivation I’ve got from your videos, I finally did it. Thank you man

[@PrinceBara]

Thats really cool, glad youre succeeding🙏 how long did it take to achieve this?

[@BedroomLofiMusic]

@@PrinceBara thank you. About 12 months and 27 song releases

[@LDreTheGiant]

That’s amazing !!!

[@ValentineMoney]

Please I want add my song playlist Please can you help me out please

[@MikeBeatingProduction]

Congrats my bro 🔥

[@NANOTECHofficial-nm3pe]

Thank you for the advice man!

[@brancebeats]

L.Dre always coming in clutch✊

[@LDreTheGiant]

You already know 🙏🏾

[@chubok8216]

#facts

[@sebastianjautschus]

Hey man, if you need some smooth electric guitar or cozy living room piano I am all yours! 🦦 you’ve inspired me to start making lofi beats so thats maybe a way to give back 😇😘

[@rollinrosatti]

Thank you for existing L. DRE

[@LaynoProd]

needed this video, thanks L.Dre 🙏🏽👨🏽‍🎨💎 reminder for me to drop music consistently, continue promoting my music on tiktok in creative ways for more than a week, and to keep my mind focused on the goals

[@LDreTheGiant]

💯🙏🏾

[@crookedfootlofi]

Your videos have been so beneficial to me as I go through the process of creating. Always inspiring and pushing us. Appreciate you immensely

[@LDreTheGiant]

You are so welcome 🙏🏾

[@landqmusic]

a little bit late to the party, but you were a huge part of my beatmaking journey, L.Dre. Thank you so much for that!! I reached 100k monthly listeners on Spotify too because of you :) (But tbh, my most memorable achievement will always be that time when you let me make some melodies for your moonlight pack!)

[@TangentMoon]

#3 is so hard sometimes, but in todays music landscape there is so much music being released, if you're not pushing it you're just letting it go to waste

[@GRAVYBEATS]

My man dropping gems as always. Thanks for the motivation, appreciated.

[@armorsniper8194]

Ok ok I hear ya !

[@chuckmakesbeats7426]

Thanks great advice 💎s always dropped.

[@LDreTheGiant]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@gakhed]

Thanks L.Dre!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Any time!

[@drumpad_jof]

If you're really thinking abut collabing this year, I would love to see a collab with you and Sarah The Illstrumentalist

[@reallygreatloops]

🔥🔥🔥thanksss brh

[@goldensoul4371]

Nice 💎 thanks for always sharing these gems. Much appreciated 🙌‼️

[@Lyy0n]

Thanks for the good tips as always man, I'm going to make sure to stay on the grind Aswell.

[@colehughes]

Thanks Dre! Just kicked off my music career a couple weeks ago so I'm entering the journey right now.

[@LDreTheGiant]

Best of luck!

[@chubok8216]

These are Gems for sure!!! Thanks fam.

[@globalh00p3r8]

Thanks man! I’m about to fix some stuff up 🙏🏾

[@cblanchhiphop]

Love your chill vibe man

[@stumbled.across]

Truth be told you really helped me out bigtime setting up my brand and releasing my first tracks 3 months ago. I have gained 1000+ monthly listeners so far and can’t wait to see what 2023 holds for us. Here’s a big question: What is the best way to collab and approach other artists on Insta or TikTok when you don’t actually have much credibility/followers yet? People don’t seem to answer to DMs or comments that easily. Seems like doing remixes and growing is the way to go.

[@LDreTheGiant]

Yeah 100% on the last note. It’s all about building up your own skill & audience but along the way it’s best to start collaborating with people around your own level. As of right now places like discord are the best places to do that

[@stumbled.across]

Thanks for your advice! Same level probably is the way to go. Discord seems to be a big thing these days. So far I’ve only used it for Midjourney 😅

[@raihanshrk1955]

amin ya rabbal alamin. Insyaallah

[@haydenmoellermusic]

Absolutely felt number 3. Video is an absolute banger, thanks man

[@LDreTheGiant]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@d4rksoci3ty]

Awesome video and priceless advice for 2023. Can you do a video on your favorite mixing plugins ?

[@LDreTheGiant]

Good idea thank you 🙏🏾

[@d4rksoci3ty]

@@LDreTheGiant no, thank you 🔥

[@lofipal1558]

thank you bro you are the my biggest inspiration.

[@LDreTheGiant]

Much love bro !!

[@gcai]

Powerful tips! Seems like we had a meeting last year to discuss these. Lol... I'm Already putting these to action. Thanks for the tips...

[@milesjordan]

I'm realizing the "never stop learning" mindset recently too. I started making pop beats after making melodic trap beats for a while, and it's been a fun learning experience.

[@prodbysy]

THANK YOU 🤜🏼🤛🏼🦋

[@darkus_prod]

The goat dropping gems 💎💎💎🔥🔥🔥 🙏🏿

[@tannergilliland3257]

I've only watched a couple of your videos but have already learned so much! Thank you!

[@ntrospec1323]

These are great tips, L. Dre! I've been producing for about a year now and I started making more lo-fi after being inspired by your music, so I just wanted to thank you!! It's a dream of mine to collab with you. I'm still at the bottom but maybe one day! Keep inspiring and working toward those goals 🙌

[@rastarbeats]

Thank you a lot & too much luv bruv ❤ Your videos always inspiring! God bless your hustle))

[@alexzehnmusik]

Thank you man

[@LDreTheGiant]

Any time

[@wozartmusic]

L.Dre man, your channel is a big help for producers starting out. Thanks for your content! :)

[@ReuniteWithDivinity]

THANK YOU!

[@DaveEagleMusic]

good videos bro, keep doing what ya doing, you're on the right track!

[@janedelmanne6781]

My fav prod yter

[@SabatierBeats]

Much love L.Dre. Dope beats and solid info videos as always.

[@foodjmadrigal]

L.dre thx u, i see u from France 🙏

[@Sir_Henrik]

Thanks for the advice, I can actually apply this advice to my music and socials. I've recently dipped to bout 700 monthly listeners but my goal is to get back up to 3,000 monthly listeners or maybe a bit more.

[@mic_liv_0911]

Thanks for another fresh video. This is really gonna help. 😊

[@LDreTheGiant]

Happy to help 🙏🏾

[@metacara_]

What a great title 🤝

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you haha

[@Musicallystoned]

Def appreciate your vids! If you ever need some sax let me know✊🏾✊🏾! Keep striving!

[@Brxvs]

I love all these tips, L Dre! :) I've been really fortunate to achieve over 300k monthly listeners and just recently 1 million plays on Apple. A lot of these tips I have used last year to get here and this year I am planning and jotting down notes to make videos/content more often and just try it out because who knows what can happen ❤

[@313028dakota]

Can you make a video on how to go about pitching a collab and walk through the whole collaboration process?

[@LDreTheGiant]

Gotcha

[@chubok8216]

That is hi-key a 🔥 idea!

[@JLMIXEDIT]

Thanks in advance

[@mikejc918]

Knowledge 💯💪🏾

[@Stephanosdespoti]

Bro I love your content and really helps !!!! Keep grinding ❤ also do u have a video to help guitarists like me to get connected with producers and work as a session guitarist?

[@angelbeats1]

Yo man I reached 50k monthly listeners today. Thank you for the motivation and I pray everyone make it... hopefully we can collab one day😉

[@SoundJourneysUA]

Thank you alot man!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Happy to help 🙏🏾

[@andydomeh7417]

L.Dre quick question i just recently started posting my Work on KZbin and a few social media platforms but one of the end goals is to get onto these big platforms like spotify and Apple Music is it advisible to start uploading there now since i just started or wait a bit till i have gathered enough following or got a little community together

[@w140]

I once saw a short by L.Dre where he slams the doors in faces of those who propose collabs to him in manner of clingy flies. Glad you’ve changed your mind on that one.

[@LDreTheGiant]

Hahaha no I haven’t changed my mind on that. I’m still not a fan of random collab requests with no context

[@w140]

@@LDreTheGiant I thought you were against any collab requests, but I see your point now. If you don’t own known name in music industry, you pretty much deserve being slammed with door to your face if you didn’t provide any context in form of samples of your work to asses it’s quality

[@LDreTheGiant]

@@w140 I think you’re taking that post to literal man I was joking. I collab all the time but what’s wrong with choosing who I want to collab with?

[@w140]

@@LDreTheGiant that was not a sarcasm man! I’m totally with you on that one. You can’t waste your time on people, who didn’t bother to present themselves and the level of their craft to the person they’re trying to collab with. I just thought you’re get annoyed with collab proposals in general and I know now that not the case. I’ll explain my point for it to be clear. As an entrepreneur, I was struggling to get contracts in the beginning of my path, though my company offered the best terms in the market. I was flashbacked to that time when we were treated like punks sometimes, just because we did not have a name on the market yet. Needless to say, 10 years from then on we give best discounts to partners that were good to us and we never make any discounts for those who treated us like punks. That being said we always were sure that out presentation is immaculate in every possible sense before making any proposals. That’s why I say, if you don’t bother to present yourself in the right way, you’re pretty much deserve the door to be slammed to your face. That’s just disrespectful for the person/company you want to collaborate with.

[@LDreTheGiant]

@@w140 ahhhh I see okay yes we are on the same page then haha sometimes people Dm me with literally just “let’s collab” without even having music on their profile. I’ve even gotten dms from complete strangers saying “what’s your number” it really gets too much sometimes

[@UndisputedL.]

If I ever had to make a song with you bro it'd be a great opportunity

[@gabrielmelendez1000]

This some good advice , thanks for all the good information 🙏🏼 , how would you go about copyrighting your beats ? And , Is it worth to do so??

[@iamdavehawkins]

love your vids man, I've found your channel really helpful in the last few months. Practical advice I really appreciate. "what even is success" soooooo important.🙏🙏🙏 I've found branding really difficult for some reason (I mean just look at my profile pic idk wtf I am doing), if that's something you'd ever wanna dive into more I'd love to pick up about on what you've learned.

[@LDreTheGiant]

That’s a great ideas actually thank you 🙏🏾

[@MikeBeatingProduction]

Awesome! Useful tips as always! I can collaborate with you bro! I’m good at playing guitar 🙈

[@RealDLMusic]

You were right dude, I stopped watching after the first one cuz I need to figure out what success with my music means to me. I have a lot of work to do to set my systems in place for goals in regards to my music.

[@TossedOnion]

No.3 is so easy in text but so hard to do 🤣 I'm trying to do that but I can't help but be self conscious 😅 Collabs too, I can't help but think I can't offer enough.

[@lvdrizzle1]

Much love..great info...#lvdrizzle

[@smrreevesify]

Hey L.Dre, i love your content. I have a question though; i noticed you use samples in a decent amount of lofi beats. Out of curiosity do you ever have to deal with legal issues like Copyright claims/strikes or composition royalties if you use a sample that is uncleared? especially on streaming sites that pay out?

[@abdur1914]

@L.Dre Need a Sax on some lofi? Right here bro. I have a lofi single coming out in September featuring me on Sax as well.

[@MiliBlaq]

Hope to Collab with you someday bro 🙌

[@hendrixsakala]

This man is a heavenly Saint, I've been watching your videos for 3 months now and you've helped me a lot.❤❤ 6:30

[@cobieallen]

Love your videos, huge fan, and I definitely always feel like I’m learning something from your videos… But why didn’t anybody tell Simon BOTH of his shoes were untied😭

[@nols6793]

💎

[@Sam_Peprah]

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@paulgillaspie4376]

Where is a good place to find others to collaborate with?

[@AlessioAntonino]

Bro than you so much again for this value. And if you need some nice melodys ´, I am playing piano soooo would appreciate :)

[@ValentineMoney]

#how will I want add my songs on playlist please can someone please tell me please

[@GorgonDrageil]

I remember commenting on your "I Fell Off" video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYSsn6ODbMqZhaM)... and I've been doing a lot of "behind-the-scenes" work since then... happy to see you still working too. Keep the dream alive bro! 💪🏽🔥🔥🔥

[@Beatsbyreza]

😘❤

[@ValentineMoney]

#want add my song playlist

[@lofipal1558]

i lke to colab with vybe village

[@TonyRosenberg]

Hey L Dre! How can I get in touch about collabing with you on saxophone? I am a pro saxophonist and producer. I have a bunch of songs released myself. I sent your manager an email. Thanks and speak soon

[@cesar_m.p.]

First !

[@mic_liv_0911]

So… lol

[@cesar_m.p.]

@@mic_liv_0911 Sorry, this is the first time in my life that this happened lol

[@thadima1996]

I gotta get over the "cringe" part of promoting your music.