Stop Burning Bridges…Or Your Career Might Go Up In Flames!
Hey, nobody said the music business was going to be easy. It truly is a jungle out there filled with: snakes, rats, rabid carnivores, sharks?well, you get the picture. In the course of your musical journey, there will be confrontations, arguments, misunderstandings, and miscommunications. You?ll get jerked around, screwed over, ripped off and disrespected. So, you want to be a rock star? Welcome to your nightmare.But this is also a business of good people, who?ll give you opportunities and ...
Every Song Tells A Story…But Does It Need To Be An Abstract Novel?
For a musician, your songs are your art. They are the physical embodiment of your creative gifts. Every bit of anger, happiness, angst, joy, pain, elation, knowledge or humor goes into the story known as your song. You write and re-write it, scouring over each note and word?perfecting it for recording and live performance.But when you play it for others, you?re not getting the reaction you expected. Your friends, fans and family seem less than enthusiastic as they dully respond, ?Yeah. That ...
Training With Tunes: Music As A Learning Tool
Solders march to the beat, athletes exercise with music, and people united in a cause sing. Music, an integral part of human life, is often overlooked as a tool for improving human performance. In this era of ?better, faster, cheaper,? trainers, educators and presenters are looking for new, innovative approaches that help learning interventions succeed. Music is one such approach.The connection between music and individuals is primitive and deep, providing a level of communication that tran...
The Vulnerable Songwriter: Risks & Rewards
If you're a songwriter then you have probably experienced the wonderful satisfaction that comes when you've finally completed a song. You might feel as though you've accomplished something very worthwhile, something meaningful. Along with this, there often follows a desire, almost a need, to share the song you've written with others. That is, until you realize there is a certain degree of risk involved if you do. What if they don't like it? Are you willing to be vulnerable and take the risk?When...
Establishing Your Mix
Now that you?ve spent hours and days and weeks and months recording your musical masterpieces (and you?ve also read my article ?Tips for a Great Recording Session?), you have arrived at my favorite time in the studio; The Mixdown.But don?t think your job is done yet! The mixdown is just as important as recording. As an artist, you have to approach the mixdown from an artist?s point of view and stay on the ?creative? side of the fence where it?s still possible to shape and mold your songs through...
How To Get Your Music Professionally Recorded For Free
Generally, the first thing that springs to mind when you need to record a song, is to make enquiries with local recording studios. However, studio charges are generally based on an hourly rate that is often more than your day job pays you.Once you've saved enough money for this excursion, there are then further worries. Unless you are a regular visitor to recording studios, you may not quite know what to expect. You may not be able to communicate your ideas for your sound clearly to the engin...
A Classical Christmas: The Classical Origins Of Our Most Cherished Carols
The Ave Maria Polka is blaring on the radio, Jingle Cats are meowing Greensleeves, and the doorbell is chiming a shrill Silent Night. To the untrained ear this musical goulash may seem tacky and not, by any means, traditional. However, this festive household has been influenced by many sophisticated classical composers!Its easy to forget the classical origins of our most cherished carols when the 9-year-old next door is hollering Batman Smells! to the tune of Jingle Bells. To most childrens (and...
"My Mother’s Almost Love Story: ‘Til The Time Is Right" A Song
Songwriter's notes: I wrote this song a few years ago. My Mother and I sat at her kitchen table as she told me this real life story. I listened to her as another woman, not as a daughter. We both wept as she shared her sad end of her dream of finding love later in life. If it tells us anything at all, it tells us to take a chance; dive into possibility; recognize opportunity and NOT WAIT.... 'Til The Time Is Right. Till Time Is Righta song:1) We sat at the kitchen table as her tears most ...
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