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Writing Tips: Writing Outright. Part One

Writing Tips : Writing Outright. Part One
By Tom Colohue |
Giving with permission by a favorite music site: www.dottedmusic.com

Photo credit: mikiiglesias on Flickr

Hey all, this is Tom Colohue. This is a revision of something I wrote a year ago, when I was far from talented as a writer. I’m quite looking forward to doing this purely on the basis of hopefully seeing just how far I might have advanced since this was first written. So, for your own perusal, this is Writing Tips.

In this installment, we’re going to be looking at the most basic aspects of writing. I’m not going to be putting too much focus into writing poetry or lyrics, but there will be some extra attention paid to those because of the flow that verse provides. Becoming comfortable with your own preferred areas and talents is important, but you have to write in order to become aware of just what you’re capable of offering yourself and others.

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Your Music Video

Animoto enables you to use your own photos and video clips to produce TV & film-quality music videos in just minutes. These video clips and photos are perfect for your bands EPK package. They can also be used to keep your fans entertained between album releases while you document your local shows and tours.

Video Submissions: Animoto supplies a cost effective editing application for video submissions for the college market (www.naca.org) NACA requires a 3min video submission to be accepted to showcase at their regional events. Make sure you’ve got the most compelling booth at your next convention by showcasing your product or service as show-stopping video. DVD-quality Animoto videos look stunning on any screen!

Enhance Your Website: Make your website more compelling with video that showcases new product launches, special events, holiday or seasonal specials, or simply create videos that feature your staff or your customers. Help your e-newsletter go viral: Add video to your e-newsletter and create a marketing tool that your audience will want to read and share.

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Cyber PR Music Campaigns

Cyber PR Music Campaigns
By Ariel Publicity

Are you ready to reach the next level of success with your music, but you’re just not sure what it’s going to take to give your career the boost it needs?

You may be wondering how to get your music in front of people who can generate enough buzz to attract a huge audience of loyal fans, increase your bottom line and give you more time to do what you love… making music.

Well… I have a suggestion that may very well be the boost you’re looking for.

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The 5 Best iPhone Apps for Musicians

The 5 Best iPhone Apps for Musicians
By Jonathan Ostrow
Co-Founder, MicControl.com

Let me first begin with this disclaimer:

I don’t personally own an iPhone. A friend of mine was letting me play around on his the other day when I found Beatmaker. From there I was hooked. I thought it was the coolest thing and knew there had to be more great iPhone apps for musicians out there. This list has been compiled based on a variety of sites and searches for music apps. These appear to be the best of the best for what each has to offer based on popular conensus. If anyone has any feedback on these choices please don’t hesitate to leave a comment! Lets begin.

1. Fourtrack – $9.99

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Health Insurance for Musicians

Health Insurance & Head Above Music

Get Information, Education and Access to Healthcare.

HealthcareOne Insurance is there to provide any Head Above Music Artist, Fan, of Family member a dedicated toll free number to answer any and all questions on healthcare. There is no obligation of any kind.

Get more information
Please call the toll free HealthcareOne/Head Above Music number (877)-241-0188.

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The Tunecore Philosophy

The Tunecore Philosophy Online Distribution

TuneCore is all about getting your music heard and available to buy. We want you to earn money from your music and make a living doing what you love. We believe that all artists and bands should have equal access to the channels of music distribution, the physical and virtual stores alike.

Why should you have to give up money from each and every sale of your music? Why should you have to enter into exclusive deals and sign strangling contracts? Why should you have to give up your rights and the ownership of your own music to some other company just to gain access to music stores? TuneCore changes all that.

TuneCore believes that all artists should have affordable access to all channels of music distribution, get all of the money generated from the sale of their music, and all without giving up any of their master recording ownership, copyrights, merchandise rights, live performance income, public performance royalties or any other rights or money.

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Attention Music Critics

Attention Music Critics (and all purveyors of the art of horse shit…)
By Ernie Hendrickson

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I caution you to take heed against placing any significant emphasis on your petty sentiments, misguided judgments, and otherwise meaningless generalizations.  Please, please, for god’s sake PLEASE, remember one thing – that music springs forth from the well of the human spirit, and is indomitable.  It has thrived since time immemorial, and will well outlive your current reign of influence, however trite and banal it may be.

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STAYING UPRIGHT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

STAYING UPRIGHT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
By Ehren Ebbage

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It’s early. I woke up thinking about last night’s show and couldn’t fall back to sleep. What do you do when the venue stiffs you? Raise hell with the bartender? Make snide comments from the stage while the audience watches uncomfortably? No, of course not. Not if you want to be a professional.

My friend and mentor John Shipe once told me that success in the music industry is about being the last one standing. I’m not talking about ‘fame and riches’ success; you have better odds winning the lottery than becoming the next John Mayer. I’m talking about the ‘pay your rent’ success. The ‘I don’t have a day job’ success. After years of working towards this goal I have finally achieved it. I am a professional songwriter and musician. Recently, a friend asked me how I was able to transition from being a part time musician to making my living at it. There are a number of specific things that made a huge difference, but the ‘last one standing’ idea is the one I’d like to focus on. It is key.

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Song Cast Music – Online Distribution

Sell all the music you want on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster, Emusic & MediaNet for a low monthly fee (plus onetime setup fee of $19.99 per album or $9.99 per single) Includes a FREE UPC Barcode for every release. While Song Cast lets you keep 100% of your Royalties, you will be able to track your sales throughout the world. Song Cast Music makes this process easy while your songs appear on the most popular distributions sites in no time.

Additional benefits:

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Are You a Composer or a Businessman

Are You a Composer or a Businessman: A decision that can make or break your career
By  Aron Schoenfeld

Composers compose and businessmen do business. At least this is what you think when you come out of school with a degree in music and decide to go on the musician career path. The thought of doing business scares most composers away as it is very often foreign to them. Music is a gift of beauty, emotion, and artistry, while the business side can sometimes end up in a whirlwind of paperwork, legal issues and cutthroat negotiation. These are two seemingly contradictory worlds but yet, for every composer or musician, they are intertwined.

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