Band managers have a critical task that relates directly to the group’s success. They need to coordinate travel, handle the different egos and goals within the bandmates, and promote the band’s identity and talent. Read these six helpful tips that can spark interest in artists to challenge themselves to manage their own band without completely losing their mind.
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First Track Impression
Musicians must focus on making an impression with their music, especially their first track. Read some tips for making a great impression! The first song must convey what the artist stands for musically, and perhaps even socially. It needs to reflect who they are and should be the type of track that will resonate with the audience. The song should set the audience’s expectations about the artist and their work.
10 Essential Online Music Marketing Tools
BandZoogle’s 10 Essential Online Music Marketing Tools serves as a helpful guide to creating an effective marketing plan to increase exposure.
SEO for Musicians: It Starts With the Fan Journey
SEO is not particularly easy to do well, and as a musician you just don’t have time to become an SEO rockstar. You have songs to write, tours to plan, rehearsals to organize. Maybe there is something specific to your band where SEO can help with your Discovery, Retention or Advocacy strategies.
Five Guitar Strumming Tips for Beginners
This article pinpoints some essential guitar strumming tips for beginners in order to help with quick improvements as well as ways to avoid some common pitfalls and reduce the risk of injury.
How to Practice Without Picking Up Your Guitar
If you are learning a new chord, scale, or musical passage, you don’t always have to have the guitar on your lap to make that happen.
Alabama Gulf Coast Feeds a Musician’s Heart
If you are looking for a music-filled getaway that combines gourmet seafood, beautiful sand beaches, and a laid-back relaxing attitude, look no further than Alabama’s Gulf Coast.
Cool Tool Spotlight: Cloudlifter Zi
The Cloudlifter Zi has continuously variable input impedance and continuously variable high-pass filtering that works in tandem to create massive tone…
Our Voice Has Body! A New Yoga Method for Singers
“Our voice has body” is a coming together of music and yoga which has been developed through my own experiences, maximizing the potential of the art of singing mixing with the morphogenetic field and vocalization. Through this method I was able to integrate singing with yoga and, at the same time, with rhythm.
The 10 Most Common Music Production Mistakes
The list below is taken from my years of experience as a musician, songwriter, recording engineer, content creator, teacher, and audio journalist. You may be familiar with some of the tips, but even if there are just a few that hit home you’ve done yourself a favor by moving closer to your goal of becoming an expert.