EP/Album Planner
About this template
Being an independent artist is hard! There are so many things to keep track of. This template focuses on the 5 big aspects of recording and releasing an album or EP: Production/Recording, Marketing/Playlists, Content, Distribution/Splits, and Art Direction. At our recording studio we often try to holistically guide artists through the process of making a musical project - often times, the music is the easiest part! There have been so many times where we get to the end of the recording process, and the artist is ready to just put it out - only to realize they haven't even made album art. This is just once example of a detail that often gets overlooked, but there are many.
Within each of the main categories, there are tasks and then sub tasks. For example, you have a table where tasks are introduced as different songs from the Recording category. Each song has sub tasks which could include things like, "Song 1 Vox Tracking" or "Song 1 Mix". from here each of those subtasks is assigned to a date, so you can plan out the writing, tracking, recording, art making, distribution, content reels etc. for each song at a granular level.
This template will make it possible to schedule every single thing that needs to get done for your project, in collaboration with your manager, producer, publicist etc.