Do Online Music Resources Dilute Or Help Musicians?

Musicians have a whole arsenal of resources available to them on the web. Many specialize in music theory, production techniques, marketing and promoting resources and advice, music business news, online music platforms, even sites where fans can donate money to musicians, in exchange for a limited edition album.

Do these resources dilute or add to a musicians success?  

One of the problems with promotion and marketing tips is that there easily imitable, so if one musician does it than there's bound to be someone else that follows. This might be a Youtube Video that's easy to make. Production knowledge is also easy to be copied, and subsequently you go on any music platform like someone and you hear loads of musicians doing exactly the same kind of music. It is also a bad influence on other musicians.

On the flipside, there are many benefits from using a combination of these resources. If you learn a good level of music theory and develop sound production skills, both from online resources, then you will create a more unique and distinctive sound in your own music. Distinctiveness is absolute gold dust. It also pays off not to get carried away with overloading your platforms of online music access – instead of having your music on Bandcamp, Myspace, Soundcloud and Reverbnation why not just have it on one of them? You can then give that platform your undivided attention.

Restraint and control with online music resources is the effective way, instead of getting carried away with too much.