Recording Music: Planning Album Length

Video Transcript

"Now you want to have a good idea of what your goals are going into a recording project. You want to say- is this going to be an EP project? Is it going to be a demo? An EP, usually three to five songs. Will it be a demo, between one and three songs? Maybe something you use to promote yourself so you can get gigs, you can get live performances. Or perhaps to send into recording industry people so that they might be interested in your project and want to fund your project. Or will this be an LP, a long play, or an album essentially of maybe six to fifteen songs? Now the length of the album has a lot to do with the money that you're going to spend. Because obviously if you're going to make an EP of say three songs, the budget needs to be much smaller than if you're going to record fifteen tunes. You also want to figure out what you're going to, or what your desired goals would be once this album is released. Are you looking for a national album where you're going to hit hundreds of thousands of people, or is this something you're going to be handing out for free to friends or perhaps selling at your shows on the local level?"