from musician to artist

Make the most of your motivation, the best way to release your music in 2023 is to plan it out ahead of time, when motivation is at its peak!

Download the music release plan template https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

Once we've released the music we move on to the next thing. we no longer feel like posting about it, we feel like we've posted too much about our new release, or we don't want to bother people anymore with it. So... We end up with great plans that were never executed.I suggest in this video that you plan out your entire release during your peak of motivation, this will most likely be the weeks prior to release, when your super excited! When you're itching to for people to hear it!
If you're able to, automation the process as well, so you can get out of your own way, and make sure the promotion happens, regardless of how you feel.

I help musicians become recognised artists though a podcast and YouTube channel called from musician to artist. I can through the life cycle of the music artist
1. Artist Branding
2. Performance
3. Songwriting
4. Recording
5. Releasing
Jump on board, and let me help you make the most of your music.

I use the SE Electronics RE20 into a Presonus studio live with Cubase Pro 12. 
I film with the Lumix S5, and edit in Final Cut Pro. 

I record at the Dotted Eight Studio, where I produce music for artists like you.
Reach out, I'd love to chat about your music 
https://dottedeight.com
artist@dottedeight.com

#releasingmusic #songwriting #newmusic

We can actually improve on releasing music! It's a creative expression just like our music, but so often we see it is a black and white concept, either it works or it doesn't, I'm either good at it, or I'm not.
In this episode I chat about how we should be releasing often, because like everything else in life, we can improve, we can get better the more we practice it, the more we figure out what works well for us, and what we can improve on for next time!

FREE ARTIST RESOURCES - https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

I create weekly podcast’s just like this one, about doing music for a living as an independent artist,  you can find those on YouTube, and your favourite podcast app.

From Musician To Artist

For enquires about how we could work together on your music head to my website https://www.dottedeight.com or email me at Studio@dottedeight.com

The podcast episodes are filmed and recorded in my studio, the Dotted Eight Studio. I am passionate about helping artists achieve their goals, and I would love to help you achieve yours.

Intro/Outro music by Robbie Mortimer - https://youtu.be/uKlvYaySmog

#musicrelease #songwriting #newmusic

We want to turn likes in music fans, subscribes into ticket sales, in order to do this we need a central place to engage our music fans, a home base for your audience. 

FREE songwriting checklist at https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

We're good at throwing content out and tailoring that to specific social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube) but all of those have limitations when it comes to actual selling your music experiences, In this video I chat about the concept of using these platforms to drive people to your home base, your central hub. To create actual dedicated fans of your music.

I use cubase pro by steinberg as my digital audio workstation, but you could just as easily use the free version of garage band, audacity, pro tools, or heaps more

From Musician to Artist is a podcast designed to help musicians level up into recognised music artists, music artists that can sell tickets to shows, and build a genuine fanbase. If you're interested in learning from the experiences and research i have done you can connect with me at by subscribing on YouTube, searching 'from musician to artist' into your favourite podcast app, or heading to https://www.dottedeight.com

My name is Craig Honeysett, and I work out of the Dotted Eight Studio, recording, mixing, and producing music
I use the Panasonic Lumix S5 to shoot my video
I edit in Final Cut Pro
I capture my audio with the RE20 by SE electronics
into the presonus studiolive
and mix that in cubase pro

Intro/outro music by Robbie Mortimer 
All other audio from https://www.audiio.com

#musicartist #musicpromotion #newmusic

Why we shouldn't aimlessly promote our music, we need to give people a reason to click through and listen to our music, we need to identify the value our music brings and speak to that.
In this video I chat about effective ways to promote your music, focusing on your new track offering some sort of value to your audience. I think this episode will help you shift your mindset around promoting your new music.

FREE songwriting checklist at https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

I use cubase pro by steinberg as my digital audio workstation, but you could just as easily use the free version of garage band, audacity, pro tools, or heaps more

From Musician to Artist is a podcast designed to help musicians level up into recognised music artists, music artists that can sell tickets to shows, and build a genuine fanbase. If you're interested in learning from the experiences and research i have done you can connect with me at by subscribing on YouTube, searching 'from musician to artist' into your favourite podcast app, or heading to https://www.dottedeight.com

My name is Craig Honeysett, and I work out of the Dotted Eight Studio, recording, mixing, and producing music
I use the Panasonic Lumix S5 to shoot my video
I edit in Final Cut Pro
I capture my audio with the RE20 by SE electronics
into the presonus studiolive
and mix that in cubase pro

Chapters
00:00 From musician to artist intro
00:09 Give your promotions a purpose
01:21 Give your audience a reason to listen
02:50 Your music has value
04:04 We are interrupting!


Intro/outro music by Robbie Mortimer 
All other audio from https://www.audiio.com

#musicartist #musicpromotion #newmusic

Platforms like TikTok and YouTube are set up to easily find you new fans for your music, they're based on algorithms, which means they are working for you to find the people interested in your music. I love imagine dragons, so every time I open up one of these platforms I have imagine dragons content flooding my feed. And not just from the offical Imagine dragons, but of any any channels or profiles doing anything to do with Imagine dragons.
Moral of the story, make sure your music content is in algorithm based platforms like TokTok and YouTube.

FREE songwriting checklist at https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

I use cubase pro by steinberg as my digital audio workstation, but you could just as easily use the free version of garage band, audacity, pro tools, or heaps more

From Musician to Artist is a podcast designed to help musicians level up into recognised music artists, music artists that can sell tickets to shows, and build a genuine fanbase. If you're interested in learning from the experiences and research i have done you can connect with me at by subscribing on YouTube, searching 'from musician to artist' into your favourite podcast app, or heading to https://www.dottedeight.com

My name is Craig Honeysett, and I work out of the Dotted Eight Studio, recording, mixing, and producing music
I use the Panasonic Lumix S5 to shoot my video
I edit in Final Cut Pro
I capture my audio with the RE20 by SE electronics
into the presonus studiolive
and mix that in cubase pro

Chapters
00:00 From musician to artist intro
00:09 Get your music into an algorithm based platform
00:42 How it works
03:00 Creating a home base

Intro/outro music by Robbie Mortimer 
All other audio from https://www.audiio.com

#musicartist #musicpromotion #newmusic

Writing lyrics can be hard! I've got some tips to help make it a bit easier for you. So you can spend less time frustrated at lyrics writing, and more time in preparing the release of your new song.
This video has 3 or 4 tips that I think will really help you write song lyrics, I've made them nice and quick for you as well, I hope this improves your songwriting!

FREE songwriting checklist at https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

I use cubase pro by steinberg as my digital audio workstation, but you could just as easily use the free version of garage band, audacity, pro tools, or heaps more

From Musician to Artist is a podcast designed to help musicians level up into recognised music artists, music artists that can sell tickets to shows, and build a genuine fanbase. If you're interested in learning from the experiences and research i have done you can connect with me at by subscribing on YouTube, searching 'from musician to artist' into your favourite podcast app, or heading to https://www.dottedeight.com


My name is Craig Honeysett, and I work out of the Dotted Eight Studio
I use the Panasonic Lumix S5 to shoot my video
I edit in Final Cut Pro
I capture my audio with the RE20 by SE electronics
into the presonus studiolive
and mix that in cubase pro

Chapters
00:00 From musician to artist intro
00:08 Songwriting tip, writing melody first
01:17 Try and better your own lyrics
02:40 Songwriting checklist
03:19 From musician to artist outro

Intro/outro music by Robbie Mortimer 
All other audio from https://www.audiio.com

#songwriting #lyrics #musicartist

Songwriting structure, how do yo you write a song with good structure? In this video I lay out how I go about creating good structure in my songwriting. 

Songwriting download - https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

You'll notice that I place a huge amount of importance on song structure, I think it play such a huge role in good effective songwriting.
This quick songwriting tip about structure will point you and your songwriting in the right direction

I use cubase pro by steinberg as my digital audio workstation, but you could just as easily use the free version of garage band, audacity, pro tools, or heaps more

From Musician to Artist is a podcast designed to help musicians level up into recognised music artists, music artists that can sell tickets to shows, and build a genuine fanbase. If you're interested in learning from the experiences and research i have done you can connect with me at by subscribing on YouTube, searching 'from musician to artist' into your favourite podcast app, or heading to https://www.dottedeight.com

My name is Craig Honeysett, and I work out of the Dotted Eight Studio
I use the Panasonic Lumix S5 to shoot my video
I edit in Final Cut Pro
I capture my audio with the RE20 by SE electronics
into the presonus studiolive
and mix that in cubase pro

Chapters
00:00 From musician to artist intro
00:08 Songwriting tip, using structure
01:36 How I lay out structure
01:55 The benefits of good structure
02:55 Takes away the overwhelm
03:29 Songwriting checklist
04:08 From musician to artist outro

Intro/outro music by Robbie Mortimer 
All other audio from https://www.audiio.com

#musician #songwriting #musicartist

Creating the vibe during your songwriting stage will help you point you in the right direction. I believe it will help you to finish writing your songs, not just start writing your songs. I've been songwriting like this for a while now, and the clear direction it provides makes it a really valuable songwriting technique, and should certainly be one of your favourite tools to write a song. From here you can write a melody, you can write chords, you can write rhythms, and you can write harmonies

FREE songwriting checklist at https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

I use cubase pro by steinberg as my digital audio workstation, but you could just as easily use the free version of garage band, audacity, pro tools, or heaps more

From Musician to Artist is a podcast designed to help musicians level up into recognised music artists, music artists that can sell tickets to shows, and build a genuine fanbase. If you're interested in learning from the experiences and research i have done you can connect with me at by subscribing on YouTube, searching 'from musician to artist' into your favourite podcast app, or heading to https://www.dottedeight.com


My name is Craig Honeysett, and I work out of the Dotted Eight Studio
I use the Panasonic Lumix S5 to shoot my video
I edit in Final Cut Pro
I capture my audio with the RE20 by SE electronics
into the presonus studiolive
and mix that in cubase pro

Chapters
00:00 From musician to artist intro
00:08 Songwriting tip, Starting with a vibe
01:01 Write as if you're pitching your song
02:07 The rest of the song writes itself
02:42 Songwriting checklist
03:43 From musician to artist outro

Intro/outro music by Robbie Mortimer 
All other audio from https://www.audiio.com

Sam Holland has taught me a lot about video over that last couple months, because I have done some heavy binge watching of his YouTube content. During this time I learn't he has a big background in music, So I reached out to him to ask if he could help teach us some of the knowledge he has learnt about both being a music artist, and growing an audience (currently with 13k subs!)

Check out Sams channel here! - https://www.youtube.com/c/SamHolland
Sams LUTs - https://youtu.be/d8dBA_NbBns

We chatted for over an hour, so I'm splitting the value over a couple of videos, a little Sam Holland series. This one covers his background in music, which pivots into a chat around bringing personality to your music.

FREE resources to help your music creation

From Musician To Artist is a podcast for musicians wanting to up skill and become recognised music artists. 
It covers the 5 stages of being a music artist 
1. Branding (the vision and direction for you and your music, as well as how your audience sees you)
2. Playing Your Music (from rehearsals, to live shows)
3. Songwriting (developing songs that form deep connections with your audience)
4. Recording (capturing your songs in the best possible way)
5. Promotion (getting your music out and in front of people, and growing an audience)

It’s a weekly podcast series, both here on YouTube, and on your favourite podcast app.
I record all my episodes (audio and video) from the Dotted Eight Studio, reach out of I can help you with some of your music.

Intro and Outro music by Robbie Mortimer (Mountains & The Sea) 
#musicartist #samholland #musicinterview

I recently worked through the entire music making process with local artist Robbie Mortimer. From the initial concept all the way through to the released album. In this video I share the crucial 5 stages that an artist has to go through in order to find success as a music artist.

Those stages are Vision/Branding, Playing Live, Songwriting, Recording, and Promotion.

I had the pleasure of getting alongside Robbie Mortimer for this entire process for his latest album, and I share what I learn't with you here.

The stunning Retro vibe I have in this video comes from Sam Holland, and his latest LUT collection, this one is the polaroid, grab them for your vids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8dBA_NbBns

Interested in some coaching? Email me at Studio@dottedeight.com

You can find some of my resources here: https://www.dottedeight.com/artist

Stream Robbies new album here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3oa0tGFnDuTzsk7dP2qoDj?si=4dNiXlEbShWQKfLkPN2cPA

Hit up his Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQGv0vwk98BWDB8oiATyRuA

From Musician to Artist is for musicians wanting to level up and become recognised music artists. Weekly episodes with free resources to help you chase after your passion

Intro/Outro Music by Robbie Mortimer.