Music Marketing Secret – Don’t Ever Book a Gig
That’s right, unless a friend or club owner, or if you are at a higher level, agent, concert hall, or festival promoter, contacts you about a gig, the best music marketing secret is – Don’t Book Them. Do not waste your time chasing and trying to convince anyone to book your act. How will this help you get ten-times more promotion? [continue reading…]
How to Write a MONSTER MUSIC HOOK for Every Song
I remember when I first began writing songs and discovered the concept of a music hook. I would grab an acoustic guitar, strum chords, sing melodies, makeup lyrics, and jot ideas down in a notebook. Sometimes I would just work on lyrics, and other times just the melodies or guitar parts.
This is the way that many of us begin writing; it is the GETTING STARTED Phase, and it is still a great way to Brainstorm ideas.
But the feedback from my songs was usually the same from everybody:
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Creative Songwriting Video Course Review
Songwriting is usually thought of as a skill that a person is either naturally gifted at or spends time developing in an intuitive manner. It not usually thought of as a subject that can be studied, and it is very rarely taught anywhere. As a result, the methods of the great songwriters have remained a mystery to many aspiring musicians. [continue reading…]
How to Write Colorful Lyrics
Did you ever have to read a textbook in school? Remember how hard it was at times to keep your mind from wandering every five or ten minutes? On the other hand, do you remember reading novels or stories as a kid that you just couldn’t put down? Maybe you’d even stay up late at night turning pages under a blanket with a flashlight so your parents didn’t find out that you were still awake. And how does this relate to lyrics? [continue reading…]
How to Create Awesome Chord Progressions for Songwriting
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Guess How You Can Write Chord Progressions the will ALWAYS SOUND GREAT with your Melody, and make listeners feel TOTALLY CONNECTED to the song.
How? It’s Simple: DON’T GUESS! [continue reading…]
Music College, Creativity, and Meditation
Why has Meditation always been so popular amongst musicians? Perhaps it has to do with the nature of the creative process itself. To be truly creative one must go beyond the surface level of life, look for deeper meanings, and bring out with unique artistic vision those often overlooked magical connections between the inner realm of ideas and outer world of physical objects. This necessitates not only looking for camouflaged meaning in the world around us, but, more importantly, tapping into both the shadowy and celestial resources of the human mind. [continue reading…]
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