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The Decade In Music: How Musicians Create

December 3, 2009 By Graham English

How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose, Technology Tagged With: bloggers, Blogging, David Rawlings, digital music, Facebook, fans, file sharing, free, Gillian Welch, imeem, John Mayer, Julie Greenwald, Kevin Barnes, major labels, mp3, music distribution, Music Industry, music technology, musicians, MySpace, Napster, NPR, Of Montreal, P2P, Steve Albini, Technology, Twitter

Meditating On The Musicians We Lost In 2008

December 30, 2008 By Graham English

The New York Times posted a beautiful sound collage featuring some of the musicians we lost in 2008. Just added to the list, Freddie Hubbard. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream Tagged With: death, Fredde Hubbard, jazz, musicians, NYTimes

From The Notebook 12-7-08

December 8, 2008 By Graham English

Chris Brogan's article, How Alltop Powers Bloggers, has a tip to get more traffic by getting added to an Alltop topic. Go here to sign up. Maybe if enough of us submit the topic, independentmusicians, it will be recognized. Here's a pair of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Alltop, Apple, Blogging, bookmarking, bookmarks, Chris Brogan, contracts, del.icio.us, dropbox, Google, independent musicians, indie music, Mac, mp3, music contracts, music licensing, Music Publishing, musicians, OSX, Rumblefish, scripting, scripts, SoundCloud, traffic, YouTube

Weekend Links For Your Pleasure

October 3, 2008 By Graham English

I've been extremely light on the blogging front lately, but I have big plans to breathe new life into this site. I'll be shifting gears as I reexamine my time, attention, and creative work. In the mean time, here's a few links I've been meaning to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream Tagged With: Apple, applications, apps, Blogging, brain, creativity, iPhone, Korg, links, MIDI controllers, mind, musicians, nanoKey, Science, theremin

A Big Day For DIY Artists

July 9, 2008 By Graham English

This announcement comes from Last.fm today: This is a big day for DIY artists as it marks the first time that musicians not affiliated with a label or royalty collection agency can collect revenue direct from a free streaming music platform. We're … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: artists, Business, DIY, iTunes, Last.fm, money, Music Business, music marketing, Music Publishing, musicians, podcasting, podcasts, royalties

R.I.P. Max Roach

August 16, 2007 By Graham English

Max Roach, one of the original bebop drummers, died early this morning. He played with all the greatest jazz musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis. I've personally spent many, many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Video Tagged With: bebop, death, jazz, musicians, videos, YouTube

Searching For Other Musicians To Play With? Try This…

December 1, 2006 By Graham English

Musiclocated is a free service that uses Google Maps to help you find musicians in your area. You can submit your URL and you can also link to a YouTube video of your performance or mp3 of your music. Check it out! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: Google, Music Promotion, musicians

Musicians With Day Jobs: Get More Energy…

September 26, 2006 By Graham English

Lori has some useful tips if "you're perpetually trying to squeeze more hours into the day to get more time to work on your music or other projects." Check her out: Useful energizer software for musicians who still have time-consuming day jobs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: blogs, energy, GTD, musicians, sleep, time-management

Hack Your Musical Mind

August 17, 2006 By Graham English

From Mind Hacks: All abilities are skills; practice something and your brain will devote more resources to it. Brain scanning of musicians has shown that they have larger cortical representations of the body parts they use to play their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: beginners, brain, MindHacks, musicians, neuroimaging, neurons, neuroplasticity, Practice, skills

The Day the Music Died

August 15, 2006 By Graham English

This is an amazing collection of photographs put into a slide show with audio explaining the meaning of music to New Orleans natives and how musicians are still trying to keep the city's cultural heart beating. It's such a shame what happened to our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: Hurricane Katrina, musicians, New Orleans

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