Beats By Ced

We are here to announce that beats by ced productions has partner up with Collective Sounds Studio. A recording studio located 905 Blackwell rd Marietta, Ga. We will now handle all our recordings and production projects at Collective Sounds. If you are an artist, producer, engineer that needs place to complete or work their music contact us collectivesoundsstudios@gmail.com. We have great quality, safe place for you to enjoy and express the way you want too. Contact Collective Sounds today and book a session

Ced Wynez | Sounds of Sodom instrumental album is finally here. Click on the links below to Stream. To show you're up most support purchase the album on the website or bandcamp. It will be available on the streaming platforms later this month. ENJOY!!1

Website | https://beatsbyced.com/album/953957/sounds-of-sodom

Bandcamp | http://iamcedwynez.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-sodom

Soundcloud | https://soundcloud.com/iamcedwynez/sets/sounds-of-sodom

AudioMack | https://audiomack.com/album/ced-wynez/sounds-of-sodom-instrumental-album 

Finally, we are getting ready to release our first album project  called Sounds of Sodom (Instrumental album) by Ced Wynez. June 4th is the release date. It will be available on the website. Also it will be ready for all of the streaming platforms as well. This is the official cover art. Designed by @DGFXMIAMI. Make sure you follow us on social media @BeatsByCed. 

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No I'm not going to talk about the Avengers End Game lol. No spoilers over here. But I will say that the movie was awesome so if you haven't seen it yet then I suggest you do. With that said,the picture has nothing to do with this post lol. But the poster picture is dope. Anyway, I want to thank each and every one of you downloaded this app. 100 of you took the time and went to your stores on your devices and got this app. I really appreciate you, all of you.

Also if you haven't done it already please leave a comment on the store comment sections. Let's keep spreading the word about Beats By Ced. Because we are always working on new material, beats, content and songs for you to engage and enjoy. We created this app so you can keep up with the content presented by Beats By Ced on the go. Even our main website is mobile friendly and responsive, we still wanted to make more convenient for you to access the content more efficiently. Once again, we thank you. Also big salute to Bandzoogle for sponsoring Beats By Ced.

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Miami hip hop artist Gas Mask (@iamgasmask) dropped his brand new video to his buzzing single "DOWN AND OUT" Prod By Ced Wynez.  Check it out. Make sure you follow him on social media. The single is on all streaming platforms. Real music for real people.

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This is a sad time in the Hip hop community. Rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in LA in front of his store in Crenshaw.  Our deepest condolences goes out to his children, his family and his girl Lauren London. We heard the news while attending an event in Atlanta, Ga. He was doing some much for his community, Grammy nominated for his dope album Victory Lap. I hope justice will be serviced because Nipsey didn't desrved this. Rest up KING!!.

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Anything that's created is subjective. It has a lot to do with someone's taste. But I believed the only way to judge ART is through feelings and/or emotions. To me there is no bad nor ugly art. Just because you didn't feel the artist expression doesn't mean it was bad. It just means at that moment it wasn't your taste. Any form of art rather it's through music, a painting, a written piece, spoken word, sung, rap, poetry, dance, photograph, or filmed, should be judge by feelings. When you look at a painting for example, how did it make you feel at the moment?. Did it make you feel happy, sad, joyful?. And that's how you judge art. Even when you listen to a song how did that song make you feel?. When poet recite his/her poetry piece did the words move you? Did the poet make you feel a certain way when they're pouring those words out. The most beautiful thing about art  it's all beautiful. One thing I love about making music is that there are no right or wrong ways to do this. You don't have to rap a 16 bar verse in hip hop. You don't have to have a bridge in a R&B song. You don't have to start with the C major scale to start playing keys on a piano. Art has no rules. I repeat ART HAS NO RULES!. The only job you have as an artist is making people feel you. Don't try so hard to have people understand your message but to feel your message. When people look at your painting, they should feel some type of way. When you rap or sing a song people should feel like doing something. It should be some kind thought going through the people's minds once they experienced you as an artist throught artistic expressions or piece.  Art shouldn't be judge by opinions it should be judge by the heart.

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Hey Producers, This was great article I found on medium.com

I love beats and electronic/sample-based/instrumental music. That's why I started Micro-Chop. 

I want to do anything I can to help musicians/producers make a meaningful income from their creativity and hard work. I think many of the producers I know and admire could reach a new plateau of success with just a few tweaks to their current approach. With that in mind, I want to share some of the things I've learned in my writing to help more people find success with digital music platforms. 

Before we get started/in the interest of full transparency with my readers: It's hard to find a universal approach that leads to great success for every artist. Having said that, I think following the steps outlined below will at the very least increase your listener base by a significant amount within one year. 

I've made the same suggestions that I make below to several artists who have followed them. They have since earned tens/hundreds of thousands of Spotify plays every month and experienced a huge spike in visibility. 

I of course would love to hear negative and positive feedback if you try some of these ideas. 

Step 1: This is the most important one and I can't stress it enough?-?get your music on every streaming platform. The easiest way is probably using DistroKid. They get your music up on Amazon, Deezer, iHeartRadio, iTunes, Apple Music, Pandora, Google Play, Spotify, Tidal, and over 150 other online services. For $20/year you can upload unlimited songs and albums. Competitors tend to be much more expensive. 

Before using DistroKid, do some research. Most producers I know have had good success with them, but one producer had some of his music removed when one of their algorithms discovered uncleared samples in a few of his beats. If you have a beat tape/album with really, really obvious and unaltered samples, you might want to ask around before using them. 

Step 2: Spotify has 159 million active users and 71 million premium subscribers. They also have a thriving sponsored playlist culture that can lead to massive spikes in your monthly streams. Other streaming platforms also have a growing audience for playlists. To make it easy easy as possible for their curators to discover your work and add you to a playlist, experiment. 

Micro-Chopping STLNDRMS?-?an exclusive, 22-track playlist. 

Use DistroKid to release individual songs as singles. These singles will then appear on all of the platforms listed above. Or, release a series of singles at regular intervals and then release all of them together as one album. You can even experiment with putting up singles from your older releases. Every release, both single and full length, acts as a funnel for potential listeners that will drive them to your page and your music. 

STLNDRMS is a really good example of an artist who benefits from releasing singles?-?he's always putting up new songs and it has earned him quite a bit of success on streaming. (Editor's note: STLNDRMS explained to me that sometimes Apple Music erroneously lists singles as albums. This seems to be a bug they haven't fixed yet.) 

If you've produced an entire album for an MC or vocalist, you should definitely release an instrumental version of that album. The more music you upload, the greater the chance people will discover it. The more people that discover it, the greater the chance it ends up on an official Spotify playlist. 

Don't be afraid to reach out to Spotify and other streaming platforms?-?and their respective playlist curators?-?to see if they'll feature one of your songs on a playlist. The worst they can do is say no. 

Step 3: Volume matters. Don't sacrifice quality for quantity and don't make yourself miserable, but in the current music market, it's difficult to put out one instrumental album every two years and stay relevant. Try to release with some degree of frequency and consistency, even if you're just dropping singles and EPs. I see many talented producers posting beats on SoundCloud regularly but not uploading them on paid streaming platforms. Upload them on both. 

Can you commit to making one new beat every few weeks or every month? If the answer is yes, do it with some kind of consistency and get those songs up on Spotify/other streaming platforms. It will take time, but this will eventually lead to more listeners and listens. 

Many producers with one or two projects on Spotify and no singles or other releases to speak of complain that they don't get any traction on the platform. It is highly unlikely that you'll get results with just one or two full length releases and nothing else. If you only have one album, trying posting some of the songs as singles. 

Step 4: Utilize SoundCloud. For all of the issues they've had recently, they can still be a huge driving force for traffic and a great way to get your music heard and widely shared. There's still a very dedicated crew of producers who use SoundCloud and repost songs that catch their ear. Plays on SoundCloud can lead to people heading over to your Bandcamp page or listening to you on a paid streaming service. 

The Bandcamp version of Oddisee's 'The Beauty In All'. 

Step 5: Also utilize Bandcamp. It's a great, artist-friendly service with a very passionate user base. Their compensation model is one of the best around for artists, they have great articles and content, and they bust their ass trying to help musicians. 

They also let you sell physical releases rather seamlessly next your digital releases. Vinyl CDs, cassettes, etc continue to do well in 2018. There's no telling how long this resurgence will last, but you certainly don't want to neglect physical releases if they're already a part of your model. 

Having sung the praises of Bandcamp, I don't recommend using them exclusively. I often see people on Facebook groups talking about how using Spotify/other streaming platforms will hurt their Bandcamp numbers. I don't think this is the case. 

Don't ignore Spotify and expect Bandcamp will magically give you enough listeners to have a sustainable career. Use Bandcamp to build synergy with your streaming presence and vice versa. Oddisee is a great example of how this can work. His song "After Thoughts" has over 13 million plays on Spotify, but it isn't hurting his Bandcamp sales of The Beauty In All or any of his other albums. To the contrary, it seems like it's giving his Bandcamp numbers an incredible boost. 

Obviously, given his crazy Spotify spins he is a major outlier. But, your goal should be to build your audience across the internet/multiple platforms, not just one or two places. Through years of consistent, good work and a utilization of all platforms, Oddisee built a crazy following in multiple places. If you stay the course and keep building listeners in multiple places, it seems likely that you will see or continue to see positive results on Bandcamp?-?and elsewhere. 

Step 6: Upload official audio of your music on YouTube. (This quick tutorialshows you how.) Sadly, once you get big enough, someone will probably do this with your music anyway?-?with or without your permission. Why not beat them to it and build a following on YouTube that benefits you? 

I've written several articles about YouTube's vast audience of listeners and how they've helped somewhat obscure/very obscure rap records from the 90s get over 1 million views. Use them to your advantage. 

Official Seneca B audio for her ADMB and Joon Jukx collabo "Ghost". 

Producer Seneca B?-?whose song "Angels" recently broke 1 million plays on Spotify?-?is using this tactic. Though her YouTube numbers are still relatively modest, you can see songs like "Ghost" really starting to take off with over 12,000 plays. Again, these aren't crazy numbers right now, but they could be with time. Every little bit helps. A discovery on YouTube can lead to a discovery on a different platform and vice versa. 

Step 7: Think big picture, beyond mere sales and streams. The industry has changed a lot, even in the last 3-4 years, and it's important to recognize and try to understand those changes. The value of a vast reach goes beyond sales and streams?-?it also puts your music in front of countless people who might want to use your beats for additional creative opportunities. 

Again, going back to Oddisee, his gains across multiple music platforms have led to other lucrative licensing opportunities. 

"I just got two messages for two separate licensing opportunities. One from ESPN and one from a premiere league in Ireland," he explained in a 2016 interview with DJBooth. "I'll license a song to them and nobody will ever hear it, but the money I make from that is someone's salary. Everyone thinks I'm underrated, but I just made someone's salary from one song." 

The same thing could happen to your music if you get it in front of enough people. 

Step 8: Do something novel, unique, and surprising. It's a crowded market out there and sometimes being good isn't good enough. You can stand out from the crow

Brand new beat for the dope rappers who can spit. If you're an artist and want to license this beat click the link Basquiat Beat.

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Recently, we was at an networking music event in Charlotte, NC. This event was put together by one of the locals during the CIAA weekend. Chris Gotti co-founder of Murder Inc. and new founder of his latest business ADD Ventures was the guest. Overall, it was a dope event. Now this event featured mostly hip hop-rap artists and the audience were a hip hop crowd. It was a couple of singers that were among the evening performances. After the event we couldn't help but wonder why R&B artists continue to preform in front of a mostly hip hop audience. Now it could be a few reasons. But I can think of one, because there aren't a lot of outlets or platforms that are for R&B singers. Still, I honestly think R&B artists should stay away from hip hop events and their audience. Reason being is, it doesn't benefit the R&B artists. At the event in Charlotte the singers that did sing were pretty good. But nobody was paying attention do them. They didn't really grab the audience attention like the rap artists. They had the right songs, but no one really cared. And this is why R&B singers gets no love at hip hop events. Now we suggested that R&B artists would benefit more if they are featured on a song with a hip hop artist. Hip hop and R&B can merge but it has to be done right. It's the same way if an hip hop artist goes and preform in front of a R&B audience. All I'm saying to the R&B artists is in order to maximize your presents, stay away from these hip hop events and pure hip hop audience. Unless you are featured on a song with a hip hop artist. Trust me, at these hip hop events it's very hard to grab the attention of a hip hop crowd especially when you're not a rapper.

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