This is a big week for the Musician’s Guide.
For one thing, we’ve hired three proofreaders to take a look at the first draft of our first eBook and provide feedback. Here’s the early review squad:
Please wish these brave adventurers luck as they wade into the early draft of the book.
Team Progress Update
Our team is hard at work.
- @kryptik is doing a bunch of research on important topics relating to the guide
- @fivefiveeleven designed our new and amazing logo (seen above)
- @thgalavantgirl will begin editing the first eBook by the end of this week
And meanwhile I have been running all around NYC doing important work for the project. Most importantly, I believe that I have secured a crucial promotional opportunity for the final Musician’s Guide book launch this summer.
I also met with Michael and Kirk from @sndbox. We identied some key opportunities for later in the year that might lead to major impact for the Musician’s Guide and its future incarnations.
It turns out that after you make a few books, there are a lot of opportunities that naturally stem from that. For example we have 10 freelancers working on the book. All of those people will still be around - and hungry for work - after the Musician’s Guide is done. It will be great if we can continue to provide jobs within the Steem platform past that point.
There may be opportunities to publish other books, perhaps written by other people. Or there will be other avenues by which to support the Steem music scene - from curation to live events to collaborative projects, the possibilities are endless.
I therefore see the Musician’s Guide as a gigantic experiment where we’ll hopefully make a big impact, and also learn a lot about how to approach new projects in the future.
As time rolls on I will share more information about the future plans of the project. But for now we must attend to the necessary business of raising funds.
Can You Chip in an Upvote?
So far we have raised nearly half of the funds that we will need to complete all of our operations through the end of June. We’re right on schedule and I am enthusiastic about our ability to raise the remaining funds.
The lion’s share of the funding so far comes from the @sndbox account, but it is bolstered by a few whales and a very encouraging swell of grassroots support from all kinds of Steemians.
Regardless of what kind of music you play or listen to, the fact that you upvote our fundraising posts means that we are more likely to accomplish everything we aim to do. If we can make the kind of impact on Steem that we envision, there will be many more musicians earning a living via Steem by 2019.
For now, we fundraise. If you can upvote, resteem, or send this post to some of your friends, we are in your debt. Thank you to everybody who is supporting us, and I promise more updates very soon.
Good luck Matt and proofreaders!!!
Keep fighting the good fight.
May the Steem be with you!
Thanks a lot Ben 🙏
Really nice, as a music lover I love to see things like these...
I make music myself (Techno, DnB if you call it music). I really hope things like Steem can offer a valuable source of revenue for artistst, on their own terms without the need for some probably corrupt industry behind it...
Peace and love
Fownten
Great, thanks for stopping by @fownten
This is super cool! I am a musician (songwriter/composer/producer/keyboardist) and been on Steemit since June 2017.
I would love to contribute in whatever little way I can.
How do I get involved?
The best thing to do for now is to keep an eye on the posts and share them with any friends who might be interested. Thank you!
Will do!
Awesome post. Maybe because I'm a lover of music. Thanks for sharing @heymattsokol ✌
you are welcome emmy, glad you enjoyed this one
You have my upvote, totally appreciate what you are doing here!
I appreciate you armageddon, thank you mate
Marvelous post. Possibly in light of the fact that I'm an admirer of music. Congratulations....great work!
Awesome Aqeel - lots more steem musicians are on the way 🗣
Full Steem Ahead Matt. 100% vote from me :)
Yeaaa Jeff! Thanks man 🤝🤝
Music is life, music is message, music is an informative/ entertaining media to curb boredsome.music is healing it is can fix anything!.
Thanks for sharing an entertaining music.
Need more of it from you
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Good post sir
Congratulations....great work sir
Good publication I wish you good luck here you have a new friend or follower hehe how you want to call it from a distant country called Venezuela
I would really love this, I too am a musician
@steemmusicng is pleased to partner with you.
What we do is online and offline promotion of STEEMIT through music. We want to take STEEMIT to the music sector.
We are working with some bloggers. You can send your audio to [email protected]
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