Nothing beats the experience of playing with other musicians. No matter if it’s performing with a band, jamming with a friend or writing a song with someone. The act of sharing is a big part of music for a lot of people. However today’s busy lifestyles make it hard to spend as much time as [...]
So far in my series on Selling Your Music Online we’ve looked at moving physical CD’s with CD Baby and selling digital downloads using Tunecore to get you into iTunes & others. In both of these cases we have been looking at selling our music to fans. Those people who listen to our music for [...]
Those songs we hear on the mainstream airwaves - simple, aren’t they? They also follow a very similar formula. This formula is seen by many as the basis of “western music”, and popular music especially makes use of organic “rules”, just as the physical universe has its own mysterious laws.
If you’ve been playing guitar for [...]
Here are a couple of links to some great articles I’ve found recently.
First up, here is an article on songwriting from CJ Alvarado:
Songwriting 101
There are a lot of resources out there that talk about song structure, rhyme and other theories about constructing songs but I will not touch on those in this article. This article [...]
In Part 1 of Selling your music online we looked at moving CD’s through CD Baby. In this installment we are going to start to look at some of the services to distribute your music digitally ie downloading it over the internet rather than shipping a physical CD. While Cd’s still outsell digital downloads, that [...]
OK, you’ve spent your hard earned money putting together a recording of your band, you’ve had some copies pressed and now you are wondering how you are going to get rid of them to get your money back or even make a profit! Sure you can sell a few at gigs and a few to [...]
I just recently stepped back into my recording studio the other day to continue work on my forthcoming CD, “Tears in the rain”.
You can hear some demo samples at www.myspace.com/markjohnsonsolo
I had taken a break from the project as I was running dry on creative juice. Doing these things all on your own is really hard [...]