First and foremost, yes, you need to have your own professional website. Social media is great for fan engagement, but it will never replace having your own website.
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How to Build an Effective Digital Press Kit for Your Music
To make it easier for venue bookers, festival programmers, and media to find the information they need, the best thing you can do is create a Press Kit section on your website.
Songwriting Handbook for Beginners
Songwriters: Give Your Mind an Escape. When to Give in to Your Distractions. An excerpt from Emma McGann’s new book The Songwriting Handbook for Beginners, Volume One: Motivational Methods
Blues Boogie Pattern
This video teaches you this pattern in three chords so that you can use it with the 12-bar blues. You can use this pattern in blues songs, swing, country and even some pop songs.
Play an Instrument? What’s Stopping You from Playing Another?
Learning to play a musical instrument can help keep your mind sharp, boost your self-confidence, improve your coordination, open up new doors for social interaction, provide a creative outlet, and teach you valuable life skills like perseverance and discipline.
12 Scales One Formula: A How To Guide to the Musical Interval
If the numbers are right, the sound will be right. The piano can be thought of as a numbers machine, a calculator if you like. Think in terms of shapes, patterns and numbers. Encompassing these three aspects is the musical interval
How I learned to Develop Relative Pitch
It seems like magic. Those musicians up there are singing different notes and it sounds incredibly wonderful. Different notes, yet, they blend as one. It seems like magic. Ever wonder how they do that?
The Importantance of Adding Your Own Style on Songs
Tip number 7 in the Top 10 Tips to Better Performing is all about adding your own style to a previously existing song. It isn’t unheard of to borrow songs for your set, but it’s important you put a little personal twist on it to make it your own.
Your Guide to Understanding the Jazz Language
This guide will help you understand the fundamental building blocks of a jazz piece a bit better, as you enter the world of jazz and understanding the jazz language.
Turn Off Your Vocal Defense Mechanism
ark Bosnian demonstrates how you can bypass this vocal defense mechanism so you can sing the way you want. It will allow you to sing powerfully and emotionally without being limited by your own mind.