These 5 tips for preparing for a studio session come from MusicThinkTank. Make sure you check out their full article here and leave a comment. They have a few more tips that you have definitely got to see.
Make Sure That Your Band Is Rehearsing Like Crazy
It’s simple. The more time you spend on your songs the more you will know your parts and the tighter they will be. As a producer, if I have a band that knows their parts and can play their instruments I can move on to helping them make the song better instead of being bogged down by sorting through a jumbled mess.
How many times have you heard this question and how many times have you answered: “It’s hard to describe,” “It’s a mix of different things,” or “It’s unique/experimental/different/eclectic.” Musicians aren’t always good at describing their own music. Some feel their music speaks for itself. But the trick is, nobody’s going listen to your music, if all you can say is “it’s different.”
Tip: Practice describing your music. Ask your friends and fans to help. Gather all the best adjectives and descriptions and make them a part of your descriptive arsenal, so next time someone asks “what do you sound like?” you can say . . .
“We’re a swampy southern rock band with syrupy synthesized twists.”
For all you music artist or just for your personal Facebook Page if you didnt know you can get a custom URL on facebook. Whether its your personal profile or a facebook page you can get a personal URL just go to www.facebook.com/username
and change it NOW so you dont have to get those long weird URLs for all your promos or just easier to remember.
“INTRODUCE YOUR SELF TO EVERYONE AND WHAT YOU DO IN YOUR GROUP?”
Our band name is “Dear Luna”
Frankie Emme (18) – Acoustic Guitar/Vocals
Joey Fasolino (18) – Lead Guitar
Kyle Hulett (17) – Bass Guitar
Justin Fryer (17) – Drums/Precussion
“WHAT GENRE OF MUSIC DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR WORK TO BE? WHO ARE YOUR MAJOR INFLUENCES?”
The Band is an Indie Folk-Rock/ Pop band where we share major influences from artist all the way deep into the 50’s as well as in today’s contemporary music scene
Many of us use the term ‘independent artist’ or ‘recording artist’ to describe ourselves, but are we really artists, or are we just people who play music?
To answer that question we need to decide what it means to be an artist. Many of us grew up in an environment where we were only taught what art means at a superficial level. Maybe our first definition of an artist was someone who was really good at making realistic paintings or drawings or maybe someone who made weird abstract creations that were supposedly only understood by special people. Perhaps we made a vague translation of those ideas and applied them to music in some way and that’s as far as we got.
Let’s get one thing straight here right away – good photography can make or break whether or not people will hire you, feature your music in their magazine, or even just stay on your website for more than 10 seconds.
Is the image you are projecting about your music accurate and compelling? Does it communicate your sound?
The following are tips and ideas about how to translate your music into photography that captures the imagination of your potential fans.
“Social media scientist” Dan Zarrella knows a lot about social media marketing. Recently he created a 60 minute webinar, “The Science of Timing”, that draws on his last couple of years of research to explain the best times to send emails, post on blogs, update your Facebook status and post new tweets on Twitter. For this post I’ll focus on his tips for Twitter and Facebook and save the data on email and blog posts for a later encounter.
Dan’s employers at HubSpot have provided The Science of Timing for free as they do with quite a bit of marketing information. Such materials help market HubSpot’s service and I really appreciate that approach because I love getting free research that is usable. The following insights are taken from the transcript. All times are EST for overall activity across time zones.
When is comes to decision-making, a one vote per band member democracy in theory makes sense and seems fair. In the studio it’s often a recipe for disaster.
These 5 tips for preparing for a studio session come from MusicThinkTank. Make sure you check out their full article here and leave a comment. They have a few more tips that you have definitely got to see.
For all you music artist or just for your personal Facebook Page if you didnt know you can get a custom URL on facebook. Whether its your personal profile or a facebook page you can get a personal URL just go to www.facebook.com/username
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