So you have your own music that you want to distribute for free for others to enjoy. What is the best way to achieve this? Listeners are jumping at the chance to download your music.

GETTING YOUR MUSIC OUT THERE

Are you just going to sit in a corner and play your music until someone takes notice? Do you know people in the industry that can help promote your music?

There's a lot of places you can try out. Cafés, bars, restos and such are good places in which to start practicing your skills. This is also a great place to practice building rapport with your audience. But you have to take turns with about 20 other musicians playing in the same place.

You could try giving out demo tapes to every producer, station, music mogul until you're heard but that might take awhile - say, years and years of patiently waiting.

Or you could just get online...

MYSPACE DOT COM

The hottest thing right now is the internet. You can practically do all your business over the internet. Since your business is your music, you can maximize the internet and expose yourself to the whole world.

If you're a loyal web surfer, you will no doubt have come across MySpace. Here, MySpace music and Live Music are available for surfers for free. People can watch videos of popular and aspiring singers, songwriters; musicians. This is a great venue to showcase your stuff because practically everybody goes here.

What's more, MySpace Music and Live Music are heard by anyone who tunes in; no matter where they are in the world. They can simply watch you and enjoy your music! It's that great and that simple. You've got to remember though, that playing live music online also means that your musical powers are being tested, so you've got to watch out for bloopers and blunders.

If you've never been to MySpace, you're missing a lot, both as an audience and as a musician. Not only is this a great place to promote your type of music, it is also a great way to check out what the others are doing. It will give you a chance to "check out the competition", so to speak.

You could also check out the moves of other popular musicians who advertise themselves here. However you want to use it, MySpace is there for people like you, who are talented musicians but haven't yet been given a break.

Promoting your music online is actually a lot easier and simpler. Online, you can do it wherever you are; and maybe someday, someone will really take interest and give you a break. It's worth a shot.