Starting Your Career As A Musician

Mix with non-destructive, real-time effects Tap into a library of over 10,000 sounds Access your mixes from anywhere with an in ...

Custom Commemorative plaque Worldwide CD and download sales via CD Baby and iTunes Gracenote CDDB and Allmusic.com registration ...

Most of us weren’t so blessed. Plus, unless you happen to be musically obsessive compul- sive, that library was more of a mishma ...

Cloud-based Services Ah ... the might cloud. Until recently, when you downloaded a song, it was stuck inside your iPod, iPad, sm ...

mands. Record labels and collecting societies should not overplay their hands when it comes to royalty issues. If consumers do n ...

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Tupac, and Manfredd Mann have all partnered with Ditto to get their music into as many digital stores as possible.” Ditto fees a ...

an absolute game changer, a revolutionary product, and the fact that it has the support of the recording industry means it will ...

for my band to have received the same 76-cent payout as a single purchase on iTunes. This does not add up in any meaningful way ...

in any setting, and could easily transfer it between devices; They could convert it to any format, they could add it to a video, ...

Until Spotify’s business model is improved, it should be seen as just another free mu- sic service, like Napster and Grooveshark ...

watch out, it can cost as much as $99 to buy a bar code. Pandora recommends Nation Wide Barcode which charges only $10 for a bar ...

more personalized radio experience–stations that play music you'll love–and nothing else. Do you get paid by Pandora? In a word, ...

Chapter 7: Media Relations You’re not going to get too far if nobody knows about you. This is where media relations comes in. Ag ...

You could dig deep into your pockets and subscribe to a list. They’re available from companies such as Bacon’s, Cision, MediaLis ...

I could write a rather lengthy dissertation, listing numerous places where you can gather media contacts online. But, as luck wo ...

Demonstrate your musical expertise and style when you can, but keep it brief. Never interrupt. Ask what you can provide them to ...

self. You know ... because much of this book is all about low and no cost marketing and promotion stuff. Developing your very ow ...

them. It may contain gig venues, musical styles(s), key performances with audience num- bers, if possible, etc. It all that quan ...

Press Releases Toss in your most recent press releases to fill things out and bring the recipient up to speed with current news. ...