We’ve spent quite a lot of time lately looking at ways to promote yourself and your music. Arjun over at The Good Musician has a great article on just this subject called 100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Ways To Promote Music. It might sound like a tired old cliche but good marketing [...]
One of my hobbies is running an internet radio station and consequently I deal with bands and musicians trying to get airplay on a regular basis. The thing that strikes me most of all is not the variance in the quality of music, but the variance in the quality of the correspondence I receive. To [...]
Over recent times we have looked at alternative ways of selling your music online. The internet has been an amazing tool for musicians and has leveled the playing field enormously. Once upon a time if you weren’t with a record company you had no hope of ever releasing an album. While the internet has done [...]
Our ongoing series on drum tuning continues today with this gem of a video by the amazing Dave Weckl. Dave is one of the world’s most respected jazz-fusion drummers and has played for such acts as: Paul Simon, Madonna, George Benson, Michel Camilo, Anthony Jackson and most famously the Chick Corea Elektric Band. In this [...]
We have recently looked at a number of online services that can help the “less famous” bands and artists release their own music to the paying public. Services like Tunecore and CD Baby allow you to distribute your music to a very widespread marketplace and to completely bypass the whole record company thing. But is [...]
Seth Godin is considered an expert in marketing, especially when it comes to high-tech items such as software. His many books include modern classics such as “Small is the new big”, “All marketers are liars” and “The Purple Cow” which is a study in “becoming remarkable”. We forget sometimes that the music business is not [...]
What better way to usher in a brand new year but with a couple of my favourite drum solo’s. First up we have Buddy rich with his “West Side Story” solo [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27B1mEr7rIw] And now we have my all time favourite drummer, Ian Paice of Deep purple fame. Here he is performing the Mule from [...]
I’d like to farewell the current year on a very stylish note and there isn’t a more stylish crew than the Dave Brubeck Quartet. May I present “Take Five” for your listening pleasure featuring a lovely solo by the amazing Joe Morello. The pants were tight and straight, the hair was slicked back, the year [...]
I’m a bit of a nut for statistics and numbers & I’ve just been checking out the list of our most popular articles of 2007. Here you go folks, a bit of holiday reading. Product Review – Bose L1 Personal Amplification System The Wall of Sound – It’s already been tried Home Recording Website Selling [...]
The band Radiohead made all the news shows and papers this year after announcing they were going to release an album and let the fans decide how much, if anything, they would pay. It seems like a pretty brave move to let the customer have the product for free with no guarantee of any return [...]