Publicity is the main and most important factor for a band or a musician to get success in the world of music. Like any other aspect of life, there is tough competition in the field of music also. So, to get success in this field you must take various steps to promote your music. Just because of lack of promotion of music, many talented singers and musicians have failed. The main idea is to make your music reach the common people; and once they like your music you do not have to look back anymore. There are two main ways for promoting of music that you can undertake, the offline method and the online method. Online method of promoting a band or music is easier and more effective than the offline method.

While going through the online method of music promotion, the first step that you should take is joining a social networking website like Facebook, My Space or Twitter. In this websites, you can get to know hundreds and thousands of people from different countries. You can tell these people about your music and even upload your home made videos in here which may consist of the cool guitar riffs played by you.

Another effective way that you can utilize to promote your music is creating and publishing the personal website of the band or the musician. Since websites are the best tool for worldwide communication, people from all over the world can log on to your website and search for your music reviews, latest albums, coming albums etc. You can even post some of your cool guitar riffs, keyboard riffs etc. which your fans can listen and also photos of your band, list of your songs and biography of the artists.

You can also join the music forums on different websites where you can post information about your band or your self composed music. Hundreds of people access these music forums, and if you post your band’s information in here, they will certainly find it. This is a very effective way that you can adopt to promote your band.

One of the best ways to promote your band is uploading videos in Youtube. This website has got millions of users from all over the world. And getting noticed by other people is very easy from this site. Many people have used this method of band promotion and succeeded. This is however the easiest way to promote your band.

However, the recent discovery of the iphone app, Riffraters has proved to be easiest and most effective way of a band’s promotion. In this iphone application, you can record your songs and music and share them with other iphone users all over the world. People listen to the available songs and music and rate them. The most rated songs get superior rank in Riff raters. If you do not have this music app in your iphone, contact your nearest iphone dealer as soon as possible. Many talented singers and musicians have gained popularity by using Riffraters.