# How to Use Discord as a Musician > Discord is where scenes actually talk. How to find the right servers, the two-week rule, and why running your own is usually premature. [All guides](/blog) # How to Use Discord as a Musician Published 31 August 2026, 00:00 UTC · updated 12 August 2026, 21:30 UTC · by Loopin Discord is where genre scenes actually talk to each other, and it is the highest-converting free channel most artists never try. It also punishes arriving with a link. ## Find three servers, not thirty Search your genre plus "Discord" and look for servers with active feedback channels rather than large member counts. A server with 400 people talking daily is worth more than one with 40,000 lurkers. Three is the number you can actually be present in. Joining twenty means being a stranger in all of them, which is the same as joining none. ## The two-week rule Do not post your own music for two weeks. Give feedback, answer questions, react to other people's work, be a name people recognise. Every server has a stream of drive-by promoters and they are all ignored. This is slow and it is the entire mechanism. A track posted by a recognised member gets listened to; the same track from a two-day-old account gets scrolled past or removed. ## Give feedback that is worth having Specific and about the work: what happens at which timestamp, what you would try, what already works. Three sentences. Do this ten times and you will be one of the more visible people in the server. It is also the best songwriting practice available for free. Listening critically to fifty strangers' tracks teaches you more about arrangement than any amount of reading. ## When you do post, post to the right channel Feedback channels want works in progress and a specific question. Promotion channels want a finished link. Posting a finished release in a feedback channel reads as advertising; posting a rough demo in promotion reads as noise. Ask for something specific — "does the second verse drag?" — rather than "thoughts?". Specific questions get answered. ## Do not start your own server yet A server with eleven people in it is a dead room, and a dead room is worse than no room — it is visible evidence of a small audience, and nobody wants to be the first person talking. The threshold is roughly a few hundred genuinely engaged listeners. Below that, a close friends list or a group chat does the same job without the emptiness. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is Discord good for promoting music? It is one of the highest-converting free channels, but only after you have been present for a fortnight. A track from a recognised member gets listened to; the same track from a new account gets scrolled past. ### How many Discord servers should I join? Three. That is the number you can be genuinely present in. Prefer servers with active feedback channels over large member counts — 400 people talking daily beats 40,000 lurkers. ### Should I start my own Discord server? Not until you have a few hundred genuinely engaged listeners. A server with eleven people is visible evidence of a small audience, and nobody wants to be first to talk. ## Related reads - [Build the relationship before you need it](/blog/how-to-build-a-relationship-before-you-need-one) - [How to give feedback on songs](/blog/how-to-give-feedback-on-songs) - [How to market a song with no budget](/blog/how-to-market-a-song-with-no-budget) --- Source: https://onloopin.com/blog/how-to-use-discord-as-a-musician