You can promote your music all you want to. You can have over a million fans in facebook or twitter or where ever. You can put your show advertisements everywhere as much as possible. No matter how much or how hard you promote your music, people are still not going to listen to it and will not support your music if it’s not good. Believe me. If they don’t like it, they won’t support it, even if you would like them to. Sad, but that’s the way music is. People are pretty honest with music.

If you’re not getting enough support with your music that you would like to, don’t worry about it. Just keep doing your thing, and sometime in the future, you will write something really good that everyone will like. Once in a while, I do get really good feedback on a few of my originals, but it would be appreciated if people gave me positive feedback on all of my music but music doesn’t work that way, I guess. You have to let the people be your critic. There are too many musicians out there that get offended by negative feedback. Thing is, if you’re getting too much negative feedback, keep working on the music. Listen to what they have to say and try to improve the song, then the feedback could possibly turn into a more positive direction.

I actually enjoy the negative feedback, it don’t bother me. The negative critics actually help me wanting to become a better songwriter and musician. If you take your time to improve your talent, more people will give you more respect and the negative critics will go away that way. The negative critics are not gonna go away if you lash out at them and defend yourself. They’ll stop hating on you, if you become a better musician and songwriter. That’s how you get people to like you more.

Which is what I’ve been doing with my own talent. I’m trying to improve my musicianship to a higher level. Trying to learn music theory, scales & modes, improvisation, timing & rhythm, etc. I’m trying to learn all the things a musician is supposed to know. I’m also trying to improve the singing too. I’ve been practicing music everyday for a couple of hours and it’s really making a huge difference in my playing, and I am getting better.

I’ll get back into songwriting again soon, I just wanted a little break from it to focus on learning music. Even if you did improve your singing and instrument playing, people are still going to give you honest feedback. It’s all about the song. The melody. If the song is good enough, people will support it and respect it. How do you write a really good song? I’ve said it before, the song needs emotion, you need to feel it. Ever feel amazed or blown away by your favorite music? Well your music needs to feel the same way. It needs to be played with heart.

Good music is the only way that you’re going to get somewhere in your career. You can’t beg people to like you. Just let the good feedback come on it’s own and things will be fine. Never think of yourself as a great musician, you need to let others tell you that. Sometimes it takes years to be a good musician and good songwriter, just give it time and everyone will like you soon enough.

Kev