Archive for July, 2008
Posted on July 29, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, Promotion, Songwriting, songwriting information | Tags: A&R, artist, finale, FTP, lightscribe, lyric sheet, music critic, publisher, record company, song demo, web site |
I’m not convinced there is ‘the right way’ it depends a lot on the circumstances. For example, do you know them? Will they listen anyway?
So the first thing is whether it is an artist, a record company, a publisher, a critic, an A&R person, try to talk to them. If you can get their phone [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, Promotion, Songwriting, Twitter, songwriting information | Tags: bio photo, press release, photo, press photo, exclusive photo, Muriwai Beach, iron sands, pr |
Often you are more likely to get your story published if you include a photo. When you talk to the editor or journalist, ask them if you include an exclusive photo that they will publish it, because otherwise you will keep it so you can offer it to another media. You do talk to the [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, Promotion, Songwriting, songwriting information | Tags: artist bio, auckland, bio, bio photo, desktop publishing, florida, jamaica, media kit, Microsoft Office, music career, new zealand, press release, song demo, songwriter, star performer, template |
Your Bio is obviously the number one component. I’ve talked about what sould be in your bio. The next thing to think about is how professional does it look. How do you want people to perceive you. Have a look at your bio now. Does it shout out, this person is a pro? Is this [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, Promotion, Songwriting, songwriting information | Tags: A&R, advertising, AICDA, AIDA, artist, bio, biography, headline, Music, music page, new story, performer, publisher, record company, song demo, songwriter, songwriter bio |
Why do you have a Bio? Is it to make you feel important? Is it written for a purpose? There may be many places where you can use a Bio, for example on a blog, on your music page or to get someone to do something.
I would hope it would be to get someone to [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Hit Songs, Music, Song Hook, Songwriting, Twitter, songwriting information | Tags: A&R, American Idol, catchy melody, good song, great song, hit song, hook, Ralph Murphy, Randy Jackson, record company, Simon Fuller, song demo, song submission, songs, Songwriting |
So you want to send your song to an A&R person and see if you can get it picked up by a record company or one of their artists.
Take a step back from the song you wrote and love and think about what their email and snail mail boxes look like. How many submissions do [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2008. Filed under: Christmas, Christmas Songs, Entertainment, Music, MySpace, Songwriting, Twitter, songwriting information | Tags: another stretch in iraq, auckland, australia, bring dad home for Christmsa, Christmas, christmas at the beach, christmas song ideas, Christmas Songs, eventful, iraq, Jingle Bells, luigi cappel, MySpace, new zealand, red baron, snoopy, song ideas, songs, Songwriting |
It’s not unusual around November to get opportunities to do something with your Christmas song, but if you haven’t written and recorded at least your demo it’s going to be too late. I don’t know about you but listening to Snoopy chasing the Red Baron anything more than once a year is more than I [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Music, MySpace, Songwriting, songwriting information | Tags: bio, biography, music genre, music style, MySpace, wiifm |
In many cases your Bio should be brief and to the point, a couple of paragraph’s is plenty in many cases. Most people who go onto pages like your MySpace page won’t read much more than that. If they want more they can read your blog.
Most people don’t really care where you were born, went [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Music, MySpace, Songwriting, songwriting information | Tags: Artspace, auckland, bright yellow beatle records, demand it, Devonport, epk, Funktion, gigs, Kurb, Kurb promotions, lauren clough, Maiden Entertainment, matt turner, Music, Music seminar, MySpace, new zealand, performer, press kits, Rebecca Caughey, tabitha frazer, tour promotion |
Today I went to an awesome seminar at Artspace. For the ridiculous sum of $5 I came away with pages of useful notes, many of which I will share on this blog, which was the first new activity I committed myself to at the seminar today.
The speakers were Rebecca Caughey of Funktion Music Media who [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008. Filed under: Music, MySpace, Songwriting, Twitter, songwriting information | Tags: auckland, BluesBro, daddy, luigi, luigi cappel, MySpace, new zealand, songwriter, Songwriting, songwriting tips, Twitter, watch me daddy, youtube |
Hey, welcome to The Songwriter. I am a songwriter and I am writing this blog to share my music, my thoughts on music marketing and to develop a relationship with song writers and other people in the music industry as well as music lovers. There will be lots of topics and information, some of it [...]
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