I am amazed how a large number of musicians waste so much time online, when they should really be focusing one thing that is more important. What is it? That’s right! Music! Have you been noticing a lot lately that I’ve been spending less and less time on the internet? It’s because I spend most of my day playing guitar more often.

I am amazed on how a large number of musicians are so obsessed with promoting themselves online through facebook, myspace, twitter, youtube, etc. Sure, some out there may call me a hypocrite ’cause I promote myself on those sites too, but in case you haven’t noticed, I don’t use those sites as much anymore.

Musicians claim they are committed to their dreams and serious about music, but I’m not seeing it, since I’m seeing almost all of them spending way too much time online. I understand you need to market and promote yourself, but you don’t need to be so obsessed with it. Most bands and musicians are pretty addicted to promoting themselves and they won’t admit, that they enjoy that attention for themselves.

I don’t care to promote myself that much ’cause the only promoting and marketing I need, is right here on my blog. I’m pretty committed to improving my guitar playing & singing, songwriting, etc. So I spend most of my time working on that stuff mostly.

Musicians take themselves too seriously with all that obsessive promotion they do. You can become a popular musician or a band without doing all that promotion. All it takes is making the best music ever and it’ll spread out on it’s own. Doing all that promoting is just a waste of time, just my opinion. I understand doing a little bit of it just to get your name and music out there, but you don’t need to post that stuff everywhere as much as possible. Your music will get out there on it’s own before you know it, like I said.

Just shut up and play the music. That’s all that matters.

Kev