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Artist academy
Learn the parts of a music career nobody hands you.
The AirTrax academy contains 50 reading-based lessons across 7 modules. It covers music business foundations, production, distribution, audience growth, community building, protecting your work, and sustaining an independent career.
How to use this library
Start with the question you are facing right now. Working on a recording? Explore production. Preparing a release? Look at distribution and audience growth. Learning the business? Start with career foundations. Lessons sit inside AirTrax, so you can keep your next action in notes or a campaign while you learn.
Create an account and open Academy to browse modules and read the lessons. The module outline below reflects the curriculum currently included in the platform.
Start with one useful next step
Free tools for independent artists.
Open them now. No account needed.
01 / Write the pitch
Music outreach templates
Write to music blogs, venues or labels. Edit an example message and prepare a follow-up.
Write your message →02 / Plan the release
Release-date planner
Pick the day your song comes out. Set dates for the tasks and download a plan for your spreadsheet.
Build your timeline →03 / Find the right fit
Choose who to contact
Compare three made-up contacts and decide who could help with your song and what to ask.
Try the example →What is included?
Build Your Sound
Production, mixing, and the craft of making records that hit.
Get Your Music Out There
Distribution, streaming, metadata, and the systems that turn releases into income.
Build Your Audience
Turn strangers into listeners, listeners into fans, and fans into people who tell everyone.
Build Your Community
Discord, Web3, and how to turn passive followers into an active tribe.
Protect Your Work
Copyrights, contracts, sync deals, and the legal moves that keep your music yours.
Stay in the Game
Vinyl, live shows, grants, and the long-term habits that keep a career alive.
Learn something you can use on your next song.
Choose one thing you need help with: finishing a song, planning a release or finding someone to work with. Read a lesson or check out a useful resource, then write down your next step and when you want to do it. These pages show the artist learning materials. If you are starting a label, the Label plan has its own 12-lesson Academy and resources.
Part of the full AirTrax platform
Learning and resources sit alongside the music industry contact directory, campaign boards, calendar, asset library, notes, and outreach templates. Browse an idea, find a relevant resource or contact, and keep your next step in the same platform.
Explore it inside AirTrax.
See the current early-access offer, then create your account to use the lessons, contacts and planning tools.