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The Unstarving Musician


The Unstarving Musician’s Podcast features interviews with indie music artists an industry pros who share their experience and expertise on songwriting, recording, touring, getting gigs, marketing, and much more. It’s all intended to help indie artists to more of what they love–make music.

Mar 20, 2020

Ariane Cap is a multi-instrumentalist, educator, author, blogger and composer. She has a very cool online educational website for learning bass, technique and theory. Ariane’s courses and webinars have built a loyal following and she focuses on consistent content creation to support her business.


Hailing from Austria, Ariane shares with us how self-publishing a book on bass techniques became very popular and helped launch her online business. In addition to being a musician and a business owner, Ariane is a certified NLP Practitioner with a passion for positive self-talk, developing habits that stick and leveling up when you’re ready.

Episode Highlights

We start by talking about how she grew up in idyllic Austria (3:40) and we go on to discuss:

  • What brought her to the U.S. (6:30)
  • Self-publishing her book and how it led her to build a team (15.20)
  • The importance of consistency with content and how she makes it happen (24:00)
  • Advantages and disadvantages of SoundCloud (29:15)
  • The catalyst for building her online business (36:20)
  • Tiny habits and her journey with NLP (48:55)

Key Points

  • Create consistent content and employ batch work to get ahead
  • Surround yourself with people who enhance your work
  • Avoid the overwhelm of tools. Start small. Grow. Then level up.

For full show notes go to http://unstarvingmusician.com