Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Music hacks are slick solutions to common musical problems. This Music Hacks podcast is designed to help you learn to hack your music intentionally, so you never get stuck and experience more joy out of playing.
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Current show features Dez Dickerson. Dez is probably best known as the lead guitarist and musical director for Prince and the Revolution, but has worked with a number of artists including Narada Michael Walden, Aretha Franklin, and Vanity 6.
You will learn a lot about [...]
According to John Geraci, Millennials (Americans born 1977-1994) mistrust advertising. But they recognize the power of long-term messages–like repeated TV ads–as opposed to the internet’s instant advertising methods.
“New technologies rarely actually replace existing technologies. They tend to reposition them.”
A fundamental difference between the digital and analog ages is content in the analog world is tied [...]
From Ask A Ninja: Question 17 “Ninja Omnibus”:
Somebody asks a Ninja, “What Is Integral Theory?”
His answer, “Complicated.”
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I just got the email I had been waiting for:
Daily Source Code has played your song On My Feet Again. Find out more about this PodShow at http://music.podshow.com/
That right. One of my songs was just played on Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code! I don’t know exactly how many subscribers he has, but it’s a lot.
For [...]
In the news right now: The Science of Hit Songs:
People pick favorites largely on what others have deemed popular, a new study finds.
The study itself may be new but the principle isn’t. Robert Cialdini, Ph.D., in an academic setting, created the 6 principles of ethical influence many years ago. One of them is the principle [...]
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to syndicate or subscribe to the feed of a website, blog or almost any media content online (not just articles, it can be music, video or almost any digital media). So instead of having to go visit each and every website to read the latest content, you can use [...]
About this time last week (yeah, I know. Not much of a friday night. I had a cold) I uploaded my music to the Podshow Podcast Network. It took about me 10 minutes.
By Monday, I was published on Grok Radio (Episode 9). Thanks Doug and Susan.
Yesterday I was published in the Netherlands on [...]
Check out podesafeaudio.com
This site aims to provide a location where musicians can upload music under the Creative Commons License for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shoutcasts, Webcasts and every other kind of ‘casting’ that exists on the ‘net.
I just subscribed to their podcast in iTunes and they’ve got some really good music on there. Plus, they’ll [...]
Friday Morning Miscellany:
Indie musicians looking for a good deal on digital distribution should look at Tunecore. Its no-frills pledge: “You get 100% of what iTunes and Rhapsody pay! We take NOTHING. Not a penny. It all goes to you. There are NO hidden costs or fees.
You pay a one-time delivery charge of $0.99 per song. [...]
In the war against music file swapping, there have been countless casualties. Napster and Grokster are a few that come to mind. But, even with the industries clamp down on file sharing, new technologies have emerged to make this fight, against such financial loss, impossible to win. One such free technology, BitTorrent, created by Bram [...]
Just got a copy of GarageBand 3. Get ready for the podcast.
For a long time now I’ve recorded everything I play on my iPod. Then I flesh out the ideas I like in GarageBand. From there I choose my best ideas and finish them in Logic Pro. It’s a really smooth songwriting workflow.
But [...]
I'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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