Posts belonging to Category 'Advice'

How To Become Rich and Famous

If you want to be rich and famous, you have to focus on your strong points. Don’t dwell on your weaknesses. Choose your strongest asset and build it into a formidable asset.
After finding your heart’s desire, your bliss, dare to dream big; dream the biggest, boldest dreams that you can think of. Decide now that [...]

Setting the Mood with Techno

Techno music reflects our effort to live in harmony with the technology and nature. Techno music still requires plenty of human intervention to create and perform the machines are simply the equipment that enables it. Techno music with unfriendly ET, “From deeper in your mind, there are things even more unpleasant. Techno music with carbon-based [...]

What To Do And Not Do At A Music Conference

I just returned from the second annual Hyperfest Music Conference & Festival. It was a lot of fun but makes me think of plenty of do’s and not to do’s. It’s interesting how many indie musicians have good intentions but don’t have a game plan in place when attending these conferences. I have some helpful [...]

The Digital DJ Licence

In a world which has gone completely mad, and a country which already forces it’s mortals to pay twice for the same thing, the powers that be at PPL have put their collective heads together and decided to get a piece of the action. Somebody somewhere woke up one morning and thought ‘Hey, how can [...]

Music Business Contacts: Music Business Registry connects artists, managers, publishers, producers &

With comprehensive listings of music executives, producers, publishers, attorneys and more, Ritch Esra and Stephen Trumbull of the Music Business Registry provide vital connections in a rapidly-changing business – a report by The G-Man.

5 Mistakes Many Artists Make

Whether you are a Graphic Artist for a company, a freelance illustrator on your own or a portrait artist working fulltime or on the side, you may have been (or still could be) guilty of one of these mistakes that many artists make:
1. Having no clear direction for yourself as an artist.
No matter what talents [...]

A Music Business Plan is Indeed in Need!

Are you blindly wading through your music career? Stop now and get one thing straight!

Have a Band? Learn the Music Business!

So you have a band and you think you’re ready for the next level. You’ve written a good selection of songs, rehearsed, maybe even played a few gigs and they went well. More people than just your friends responded and gave you positive feedback. You’ve even made a little bit of money and had a [...]

Shooting Your Own Music Video

Music videos can be expensive items. It hurts spending thirty, fifty or even a hundred grand of your hard-earned money on something you – basically – give away for free!
So, it can be very tempting to save some money by shooting your own music video. I mean, video cameras come on cell phones nowadays, and [...]

How To Write A Killer Dance Tune

Hell, if I really knew how to do this I wouldn’t be writing about it, I’d be churning out dance floor classics like they were going out of fashion!
I think I can give some helpful advice, having ripped up many a podium in my dancing days, and having studied music all my life, but if [...]