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The Basics of Marketing Your Music
Posted on September 30, 2010 | No CommentsAuthor: Billy T Joe A career in music provides a lot of exciting twists and turns. Aside from the travel opportunities that a music career offers, it also offers the chance of being famous. Although making it in the music industry is quite difficult, most especially in marketing music, there are some helpful steps that can be followed in order to become successful. Music marketing is one of the hardest challenges that musicians have to face in their music careers. Aside from the... -
The History of Musical Instruments
Posted on September 27, 2010 | No CommentsAuthor: Henry Jeon Music and musical instruments are used to create sounds that are pleasing to hear and anything that produces sounds serves as musical instruments. Music has always been part of our cultural heritage and different types of instruments have evolved during the ages. The origin of the first musical instruments dates back from ancient times and historians have found artifacts to be early flutes which are about 37000 years old. Various musical instruments developed in... -
Drum Building 101 – How to Wrap a Drum Shell – Part 1
Posted on September 23, 2010 | No CommentsAuthor: Philip Ellis Using a wrap to finish your drum is a great way to get an outstanding finish in very little time. If you are wrapping multiple drums you should find out if your wrap supplier has specific configurations already cut to size for your drums, if not you’ll need to calculate how much wrap you will actually need to buy to be able to cover all your drums. If you are unsure of how to do this, just ask your supplier to help you figure it out. First you will need to cut your... -
What is Music Production, and What Do Producers Do?
Posted on September 20, 2010 | No CommentsAuthor: Ryan C Murphy Maybe you are just curious, maybe you want to get into the music business, but you are wanting to know what music production is, and just what is it music producers do. Well, I am here with some answers for you. Music production is the act of making music in a format that can be listened to later. A band can perform a song, but it takes a producer to get it into a format ready for distribution. Although many singers, band members, and song writers are professional producers... -
The Importance of Using Our Ears
Posted on September 16, 2010 | 1 CommentMusic is a hEARing art. Author: Rosablanca Suen Unfortunately, our education tells us that we need to read well, so the stress is on learning to read first even when learning to play the piano. As a result, typical piano lessons rely heavily on reading music. When the pianist plays note-by-note from a score, he is actually sight reading the music that is written on the sheet. The attention is put on the visual aspect rather than on training the ears to listen to sounds. For a long... -
Make Money Writing Music at Home
Posted on September 13, 2010 | No CommentsAuthor: Patrick Mullen With the new digital age of music upon us, there are several options available for musicians and producers to make money writing songs from home. With thousands of music publishing companies available at your disposal, your home based recording business can be very lucrative. Most musicians nowadays have some sort of Audio Editing/multitrack software on their PC’s. Little do they know that this is a powerful tool that can be used to make money in music publishing.... -
How Choir Music is Performed and How the Choir is Arranged
Posted on September 6, 2010 | 1 CommentAuthor: Richard A Dale Choir is the most popular term for a group of singers although the terms chorale and chorus are often used swell. The term ‘Choral music’ is the name given to the type of music that is written specifically for such a group of singers. The term ‘choir’ is often associated with a church. More often that not, if a group is performing outside of the church setting they are referred to as a chorus. This isn’t always the case though – parts of...
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