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  • Songstuff Writer and Artist Development Challenges

    By john

    Independent writers and artists face several large disadvantages when they are compared to signed, mainstream writers and artists.  Disadvantages that add up to making it a competition that indies can’t win. Hell they can’t even compete.   Lack of budget and poor contacts are fairly obvious disadvantages. Lack of experience and a lack of knowledge restricts songwriters and artists alike. Lack of an overall strategy, and a limited set of incomplete tactics, makes for a critical problem
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Dynamics In A Band

Dynamics In A Band   There are three primary traits in choosing musicians Skill, Talent, and Imagination.  It is rare to find all three in one person and it not necessary to have all three in one person for success although it certainly can’t hurt.   I only score Medium in Skill, but High in Talent and Imagination.  I am technically not stellar but I can hit the target on emotion.  This means I can sometimes make a piece sound better than a more skilled musician who has less

Spotify Canvas: Increase Your Track Shares by 145%

You know when you play a song on Spotify and you see a short looping video? Yeah, that’s a Spotify Canvas.   Have you tried adding a Spotify Canvas to you songs on Spotify?  If so, have you tracked your results and do you see a difference in your shares?  If you haven't, try it out on your new releases and your old ones, too.        For the full article, with great information https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/03/07/spotify-canvas/        

I need to slow down..

With the new release activities in full motion, I realized how much I've worn myself out right at the beginning of the year. With classes through the day taking a significant amount of physical and mental energy, my OCD mind has been overwhelmed lately with so much to do - website, social media, recording, demos, mailing list, Songstuff, music production.    I'm not exactly complaining since I do this full time and pretty much signed up for all that being a musician entails. But I need

Mahesh in art & music

Our Songstuff Community on YouTube

Playlists are a great way to enjoy and promote our member's music.  We have added more of your songs to the Songstuff Community YouTube playlist.   Have a listen and help support the member artists and our community.  Subscribe  to  their channels and to Songstuff channel.  Like, comment and share!                                                   Songstuff  Community Song list: Mahesh - Realize Live at Her Village @Mahesh Bill Kamen - My Isolation @Bill Kamen Mora Amaro

Bandcamp Acquired By Epic Games

Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, has acquired Bandcamp. Bandcamp will remain a standalone platform, under the leadership of Epic Games co-founder and CEO Ethan Diamond.   In a statement today (2nd March, 2022), by Ethan Diamond on the Bandcamp website, the news was announced by the digital music retail and media platform.   “Bandcamp will keep operating as a standalone marketplace and music community, and I will continue to lead our team”   “The p

"Realize - Live at Her Village" - my new release has been in planning for a while.. So glad it's out!

The new journey and EP cycle has finally begun with this new release.   Change EP has been in plans for a while now. The pandemic had its ways of slowing things down but there's also been a lot of developments over that period such as getting an artist grant by a few music foundations, some potentially consequential production crew/cast coming in to work on the record along with all the plans we've been looking at from our record label RC7 Records' point of view with @john & @Peggy

Mahesh in art & music

System Updates

Windows 11 Upgrading   I lose a lot of time updating my recording system. Good that it is up to date, but updates take a while to do.   The most annoying bit is that every time I go through the update cycle, I restart my system. It’s a Windows 10 system. That means, every restart brings the “Upgrade to Windows 11!” Messages and software download… even when you don’t want to update! Arrggghh!   I would upgrade to Windows 11 if it wasn’t for concerns about compatibili

john in Studio

What Year is It? Nearly a Third of the iTunes Top 100 Taken By Oldies, New Releases Not Catching On

This is so interesting. So what’s going on here? Do you have any ideas or reasons that you think might be causing this??     Is it an iTunes promotion clogging the chart? Or a lack of interest in current music? Or both? Nature, you know, abhors a vacuum.   https://www.showbiz411.com/2022/01/16/what-year-is-it-nearly-a-third-of-the-itunes-top-100-taken-by-oldies-new-releases-not-catching-on

Peggy in News

Another Side to My Experience

The following entry was prompted due to a conversation I had yesterday, with readers and friends of mine who are not members of Songstuff. Some of these people are not musicians, so keep that in mind.   As many of you already know, I consider myself as being a loyal member of this place. And while Songstuff DOES have its ups and downs, there is no other place id rather be. But there are also downsides to this choice. I am known for being relatively candid, so I thought it could be inte

VoiceEx in Rant

NFTs next hit may be music industry

@Mahesh brought up NFT's in the music industry just the other day in a meeting we were in. Thought I'd do some follow-up and start looking a little deeper into it.     In the music world, an NFT could be defined as a rare collectible that is stored on a digital ledger.    https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/how-are-nfts-changing-the-music-industry-also-what-the-hell-is-an-nft-12012567   Former music manager, Merck Mercuriadis, who once counted Beyonce and Guns N’ R

Peggy in News

"Alright" (midnights at home)

After the first week of staying at my new home, it still kinda feels like I'm staying at a friend's. (Though I seem to be doing way too many chores for the seemingly friend's place 😄)   It's customary now to sing to these walls at nights and I hadn't played this in ages! Here's a song of mine called "Alright" which is about learning to love without imposing yourself on another. Hope you'll are doing well.       .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom

Mahesh in art & music

Do You Sing In The Shower?

"Singing in the shower makes you happier, study shows"   This is a fun article about the benefits of singing in the shower.  It even has a spot by vocal coaches about how to improve your shower singing.  Who knew?    I'm working on a new playlist.  It's going to be songs to sing while showering.    Do you sing in the shower?  If you do, what songs do you sing?  Do you have any shower singing tips or techniques that you want to pass along? What songs do you think wou

Peggy in Tips of the Trade

Album 4 - "Not All It Seems - REDUX" (2021)

So, lastly, we come to Album 4 “Not All It Seems – Redux” (2021).   ‘Flat White’ had taken 2-3 years to gestate and create.  Each song was something I was proud of, was quite unique, and had been taken as far as my non-professional abilities would allow.    It was therefore quite chilling to realise, especially after my near-fatal motorbike accident before the full recording began, that all the time, effort and creativity actually counts for nothing if you never get to press

GregB in An album cycle

Album 3 - "The Flat White Album" (2020)

After releasing Album 2 (Prescient) at the end of 2015, followed by an intense music video production phase, I felt creatively exhausted and mentally spun out.    However, there were two events that helped kickstart the thought of doing a solo album: I scored a short film for a Film Festival competition, and I recorded, arranged and produced a song written and performed by my nephew who visited us from the UK These two projects seemed to get my mojo back, and soon I f

GregB in An album cycle

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