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Sep 10

Music Grant and Scholarship Programs – Free Money

There is billions of dollars in free college grants, and music grants are just one of the many programs that can help students get the money they need to pay for college. These funds are available to millions of American students through private foundations and some government grant programs, but most art students are not aware that they exist. Once obtained, though, this is money that may be used to purchase art supplies, course fees and other educational expenses.

The benefit of obtaining an art grant over a scholarship or student loan is that this is money that never has to be paid back. With a scholarship, you always lose the risk of losing your scholarship by not meeting the qualifications, and student loans have to be repaid when you graduate or are no longer a full-time student. Art grants, on the other hand, never have to be repaid, and once approved they can often be obtained over and over again. Continue reading →


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Nov 08

Owning Your Own Music Business – As Easy As a Few Pen Strokes

Don’t laugh. Many businesses began from nothing more an idea, and those melodies you have rolling around in your head just might be as good as any other ideas. When you write down or record your new song, you are essentially starting to own your own music business. Your idea has become a piece of intellectual property, as real and potentially as valuable as any physical property you own. Most businesses have at their heart some piece of intellectual property.

This used to be a known fact in the popular consciousness — check out a few Perry Mason reruns and you’ll see that “trade secrets” and “patents” were important enough to be motives for murder. With the coarsening of the public perception — all crimes and all plots on daily television seem to revolve around merely passion or pathology — we have lost the sense of the power of ideas. Continue reading →