Brian Culbertson – HuffPost 11.1.13

Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new artists?

Brian Culbertson: The advice is these days you sort of have to do as much as you can yourself when you’re first starting out because relying on other people is really tough right now. You’ve got to learn how to run Pro Tools and Logic and get in there and write your own songs and be a songwriter. Otherwise, the money’s going to somebody else. So write your own song, do your own tracks, and find your own sound. When you’re doing your own tracks, it’s easier to find your own sound, I think, versus finding a producer. When you’re starting out, what kind of producer are you going to hire when you don’t have much money? The more you can do yourself, the better. And you’ve got to self-market in the beginning as well, otherwise no one’s going to know who you are. You’ve got to get on the social media, you’ve got to post some YouTube clips of you doing your thing in your studio to get some awareness. Once you have a ground swell, maybe play out live, get a band together, become the biggest thing in your town, wherever that is, and put that on YouTube. You’ve got to use all of these tools that you have.