Archive for March, 2008
My Maria – Brooks & Dunn
March 28th, 2008 | Author: admin
singles of their own in the late 1980s. The duo made its debut in 1991 with their first four singles all reaching the top of the US Billboard country music charts. Their debut album, Brand New Man, was released the same year and was certified 6x platinum by the RIAA. Brooks & Dunn have had more than forty singles on the country music charts, twenty of which have reached number one. They have recorded ten studio albums, two greatest-hits compilations, and a Christmas album. Brooks & …
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Funding Your Next Album
March 25th, 2008 | Author: admin
If you don’t have your own recording studio, making a hit recording requires a lot of time and money to purchase studio time, hire studio quality musicians and find people with the expertise necessary to produce a top quality CD. In the end, the quality of the CD is greatly affected by how much time and money you sink into the project. Unfortunately, most fledgling recording artists don’t have the required funds and don’t know where to turn to obtain them. The purpose of this article is to give you a few tips for funding your next album or your first album, whichever the case may be.
1. Go directly to your fans. Last year, singer-songwriter Jill Sobule shocked the music world by asking her fans to fund her next album. Using a weblog, she set up donation levels from $10 to $10,000 for her fans to donate and each person who donated received a prize. For example, the $10 donation received a free digital download of her album; the $10,000 donation won the opportunity to sing on her album! Jill raised the needed $75,000 to create her new album that will be released in April, 2009.
This worked for Jill because she already had a huge fan base from her six previous recordings. Maybe you won’t use such a novel approach for funding your next album; however, whatever method you use, you will need money unless you’ve landed a contract from one of the major labels or you intend to use the do-it-yourself (DIY) method. Even if you use the DIY method you will need funds, although the amount needed will be much less.
2. There are websites that foster personal and financial relations with indie artists and music fans worldwide. Sites like Sellaband, MICROFUNDO and indie FINANCIAL network are great resource sites that allow you to build a fan base and raise funding for your projects.
3. Private investments from friends and business people in your own hometown. Sometimes this is the best place to start. If you have built up your fan base in your own hometown you will have many acquaintances in the business community who might jump at the chance to help you out.
4. Private grants or grants from private foundations. There are still a few places available to obtain private grants. For example, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is one such organization. They provide information to obtain private grants for students, artists and academic researchers. Since you are an artist this is worth investigating.
5. Government Grants. Although it is difficult these days to get a government grant, you may find help at cfda.gov and grants.gov. These sites provide information on federal government grants available and details of how to apply for a grant.
In order to obtain funding using the above methods you will need to have an estimate of actual costs of creating the CD. Following are expenditure possibilities that you will incur:
Setting up the legalities of your business Musicians Production fees Engineering Mixing Time/Additional Studio costs Mastering Manufacturing Artwork New Gear Piano Tunings CD Release Party Radio Promotion Advertising
You will need to estimate the prices for all of these possible expenses by talking with professionals in your area. You may cut corners by doing some of the work yourself. However, you must always be aware that homemade CDs seldom become top hits. If you want to compete with the big boys you will need to bite the bullet and pay a professional to produce your music CD. While the expenses can be enormous, funding your next album may be as close as a phone call to a friend, or as easy as starting a blog aimed at getting the support of your fan base. All it takes is perseverance, patience and a good plan.
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1. Go directly to your fans. Last year, singer-songwriter Jill Sobule shocked the music world by asking her fans to fund her next album. Using a weblog, she set up donation levels from $10 to $10,000 for her fans to donate and each person who donated received a prize. For example, the $10 donation received a free digital download of her album; the $10,000 donation won the opportunity to sing on her album! Jill raised the needed $75,000 to create her new album that will be released in April, 2009.
This worked for Jill because she already had a huge fan base from her six previous recordings. Maybe you won’t use such a novel approach for funding your next album; however, whatever method you use, you will need money unless you’ve landed a contract from one of the major labels or you intend to use the do-it-yourself (DIY) method. Even if you use the DIY method you will need funds, although the amount needed will be much less.
2. There are websites that foster personal and financial relations with indie artists and music fans worldwide. Sites like Sellaband, MICROFUNDO and indie FINANCIAL network are great resource sites that allow you to build a fan base and raise funding for your projects.
3. Private investments from friends and business people in your own hometown. Sometimes this is the best place to start. If you have built up your fan base in your own hometown you will have many acquaintances in the business community who might jump at the chance to help you out.
4. Private grants or grants from private foundations. There are still a few places available to obtain private grants. For example, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is one such organization. They provide information to obtain private grants for students, artists and academic researchers. Since you are an artist this is worth investigating.
5. Government Grants. Although it is difficult these days to get a government grant, you may find help at cfda.gov and grants.gov. These sites provide information on federal government grants available and details of how to apply for a grant.
In order to obtain funding using the above methods you will need to have an estimate of actual costs of creating the CD. Following are expenditure possibilities that you will incur:
Setting up the legalities of your business Musicians Production fees Engineering Mixing Time/Additional Studio costs Mastering Manufacturing Artwork New Gear Piano Tunings CD Release Party Radio Promotion Advertising
You will need to estimate the prices for all of these possible expenses by talking with professionals in your area. You may cut corners by doing some of the work yourself. However, you must always be aware that homemade CDs seldom become top hits. If you want to compete with the big boys you will need to bite the bullet and pay a professional to produce your music CD. While the expenses can be enormous, funding your next album may be as close as a phone call to a friend, or as easy as starting a blog aimed at getting the support of your fan base. All it takes is perseverance, patience and a good plan.
By: Jimmy CL Newson
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Jimmy “CL” Newson
Music Independence Summit Connection
http://musicindependenceonline.com
Music Independence Summit Connection
http://musicindependenceonline.com
I have over 17 years experience dealing in all aspects of the music industry from audio and video production to marketing and promotions. I am currently working on projects involving internet television, internet radio and live music performances across the United States. My primary focus in on the independent music community. For more information, please visit our websites. If you are involved in the independent community or are an independent artists, check us out.
How to Create a Series of Audio Interviews With Experts in Your Field
March 19th, 2008 | Author: admin
Let say you have five interviews with the top experts in your chosen field and you interview them about how they were able to build their businesses to six figures under eighteen months.
Then you create 15 questions to ask each one of your experts. You’ll use the same 15 questions for each interview.
You then recorded each one of your interviews and have them transcribed and put to a CD format. You also will save the interview as an mp3 file do it can be downloaded from a web site.
After you do the interview with each one of your experts something happens that is magical.
You have build trust and report with each one of your experts. Because of this each one of your experts will probably find this collection of interviews very valuable.
If you have picked the right kind of experts for your interview series, each one will have a list of subscribers and buyers.
Now you have a good chance to get your expert to promote the interview series to the list of subscribers.
This is called a joint venture. All you do is make each one of your experts an offer.
You can say something like this… “Mr. Expert, we have published a wonderful interview together and I’m sure you want to share this interview with your subscribers and buyers.
Remind him that you have four other interviews with experts in his same field that his subscribers may be willing to buy.
Tell him you want to make a deal. Say that you have published four additional interviews with other experts in your field on how each was able to build a six figure business in 18 months.
Would you like to offer this series of expert interviews to your list and we can share in the profits for each set that we sell?
You can pay fifty percent of the gross sales to the expert and you keep fifty percent for your self.
In this example, you did not have to own a website, you’ve done interview with the experts, they each have a list of subscribers, you own and control the information product and now you’ve got a product that you can sell doing joint ventures.
This is the most powerful method for making money with interviews for the beginner.
By: Michael Senoff
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Then you create 15 questions to ask each one of your experts. You’ll use the same 15 questions for each interview.
You then recorded each one of your interviews and have them transcribed and put to a CD format. You also will save the interview as an mp3 file do it can be downloaded from a web site.
After you do the interview with each one of your experts something happens that is magical.
You have build trust and report with each one of your experts. Because of this each one of your experts will probably find this collection of interviews very valuable.
If you have picked the right kind of experts for your interview series, each one will have a list of subscribers and buyers.
Now you have a good chance to get your expert to promote the interview series to the list of subscribers.
This is called a joint venture. All you do is make each one of your experts an offer.
You can say something like this… “Mr. Expert, we have published a wonderful interview together and I’m sure you want to share this interview with your subscribers and buyers.
Remind him that you have four other interviews with experts in his same field that his subscribers may be willing to buy.
Tell him you want to make a deal. Say that you have published four additional interviews with other experts in your field on how each was able to build a six figure business in 18 months.
Would you like to offer this series of expert interviews to your list and we can share in the profits for each set that we sell?
You can pay fifty percent of the gross sales to the expert and you keep fifty percent for your self.
In this example, you did not have to own a website, you’ve done interview with the experts, they each have a list of subscribers, you own and control the information product and now you’ve got a product that you can sell doing joint ventures.
This is the most powerful method for making money with interviews for the beginner.
By: Michael Senoff
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Michael Senoff is a sought-after Internet marketer, interviewer and business coach with more than 50,000 students on four continents. For a limited time he is giving away free over 120 hours of in-depth audio interviews with some of the richest and most successful marketers, copywriters and business experts in the world at his famous website http://hardtofindseminars.com
Video Games Live – Classic game themes Orchestrated
March 16th, 2008 | Author: admin
A musical compilation of some of the classic 8 bit game tunes. Performed by the Video Games Live orchestra. Also check out the Metal Gear Solid music: www.youtube.com … Video Games Live bit music Nintendo Atari
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JAMmin’ wit Da New Musicians (my VocALs SuCK in dis one)
March 16th, 2008 | Author: admin
SatuRdAY PraCtice at World Resort with da New Shipment of Musicians (100% REFaLuWaScH)..please excuse the ..”Roimata” When i go out of Tune..hahahah..still too early in the Day to Be hitting High Notes..HAHAha…enjoy Da StriNG WorK, by Mr. SlaCk-MicK-KEY! on da Tahitian UKE!..
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