How to build a music portfolio online?

December 6, 2021

If you’re reading this chances are you’re ready to go out there in the world and put across your creations or to show off your skills and get work and gigs. But if you do need to get work and gigs you would really need to show your work or examples of your work to establish your credibility. There could be a variety of ways you can build an online portfolio, it can take a form of a showreel, or a short video to show a selection of clips of the best work you’ve done till now. It could also be a website where you can show a more comprehensive portfolio by including your audio tracks.

What should your music portfolio have?

Essentially your website or your Social media accounts should have ideally the following 

  • A  video showreel 
  • vIdeos of previous projects you have worked on with your accompanying score 
  • Audio Clips of recordings of your Compositions 
  • PDF notations of your compositions 
  • A short brief about each of the pieces 
  • Your contact details 

The only element at hand would be to show the versatility that yes you can work on any number of genres and can compose, mix, design across different moods while carrying your signature style, which is why people will hire you. 

Essential tips you should keep in mind 

  1. If you’re uploading a showreel make sure it is around 2-3 minutes long 
  2. There should be a versatility around the range of dynamics and sounds 
  3. Always and we mean always render your audio or video in the highest possible quality 
  4. Always portray your additional skills, for e.g you mix and edit your own tracks. 

There are tons of places beyond social media where you can host your portfolio and showreels

  1. Vimeo: You might have heard about Vimeo, a video hosting site and a video player, it offers the basic package as free. 
  2. Youtube: Youtube is a far more widely used video sharing platform, with a few smart tweaks you can make your videos trend globally 

For portfolio building, you can choose the following  free platforms 

  1. PortfolioBox: Free websites for creatives allowing 30 images and 10 pages with 0% commission 
  2. WordPress: the free version allows up to 3Gb of Storage.


Now the question would come around how would you share your portfolio? you can include the link in your business cards or in the bio of any of your social media account, you can also include your professional social media link in your portfolios as well.