Go out and play your music. To anyone and any place who’d let you. Find a venue.
Find a corner and play. Perform in front of people. It’s called busking, and It works.
Just ask Dana Paulene. Advice for the aspiring creative dreaming of making it in the music scene. Go out and play your music.
To anyone and any place who’d let you. Find a venue. Find a corner and play.
Perform in front of people. It’s called busking, and It works. Just ask Dana Paulene.
I first saw Dana playing at Uptown Mall in BGC. Playing solo, an acoustic guitar strapped to her shoulder plugged into an amp, and her mic, singing E-heads. And I thought, “She’s good.
” I noticed the degree of panache in which she sang other people’s songs. So I came up to her after she finished her set. It’s the record label man in me, you see? If you work in a music label, you do these things (and it's not weird that I just walk up to people and chat them up).
Anyway, it was a quick one in which I said: “hey, you do those songs nice. Do you have a demo or YT channel that I can check you performing?” And sure enough, Dana – a nice, polite young lady in her freshman year at Ateneo – had her YT channel and was good with her socials stocked with gig videos from all over. Dana was pretty much a busking pro at this point.
This leads me to another pro tip: have your YT channel and socials running for anyone who wants to see you. You’ll be glad you have one if you come across these label types. Besides, wh.
