How do you get your own written music available to the public?

Question

I write my own music, and want to go a step further to allow others to listen and/or download my music. What is the best (and safest) way to do this?

Answer 1

I use a website called Soundclick.com to share my music. They allow you to assign any rights you wish to reserve, and even allow you to sell your songs online if you wish. So far, I only offer my compositions for free, but I may post a couple on there for a suggested donation to see if I can raise money for my classroom, sometime in the future.

There are many others like my space and you tube and even Apple's site itunes or isongs or something like that, but I like the community feeling I get from this site and I have a lot invested in it (Time and effort, not money) so I mention it when I can. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Setup a Myspace music account. The great thing about Myspace is that a musician like yourself has the same resources as a musician signed to a major label. Everyone gets to upload four songs to share.

Answer 3

Well first and foremost you should copyright your material. Go to the library of congress website and get all the info... it costs 30 or 35 bucks, BUT you can put a bunch of songs on one CD and copyright them all as a compilation album for the same price. Then you are safe to post your music on myspace, or youtube, or www.mybigbreak.com. Good luck!