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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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Musician?

Musician? Songstuff is end to end targetted at helping at every stage from begining to play an instrument through writing a song to selling the final product. Get a great start, come visit our Instruments and Performance boards. Looking to improve your writing? Try our Creativity boards. If you are interested in recording, making a video or discussing album artwork take a look at our Recording and Media boards If you are into your music gear then drop into Gear boards F

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The Writer's Blog

"the Dead Sweethearts Polka"...

I was asked by the fellow buying more of my CDs why I hadn’t been discovered yet. My stuff, he said, is better’n what’s on the radio or in the record stores. (Thanks.) There are two answers, a curmudgeonly one and a non-curmudgeonly one, and I’m not sure which is right. The non-curmudgeonly answer is that success in the music business as it’s configured today depends entirely on whom you know (or rather, who knows you) rather than what you can do, and not enough people know me. I keep p

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Vocals On Songstuff

If you are a singer and you are interested in improving your singing technique then our vocals area and vocals board are an ideal place to pick up tips and exchange ideas with other singers. Vocals Area Vocals Board Vocals editor Cheryl Hodge has been teacher to many students; including pop icons Grammy winner Paula Cole, Juno winner Frazee Ford, and Canadian Idol finalist, Alyssa Klazek. She graduated from and taught at Berklee College of Music (voice faculty for 8 years), and fo

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The Writer's Blog

So We're Busy...

Despite its being a busy week, I have managed to get done all the stuff I planned to get done. It feels weird to actually have a night (well, part of a night) off. Bay City Arts Center business cards are designed for the Gang of Four; they lack only the e-mail addresses, which executive director Loni will work out with Bruce Deloria, whom I put her in touch with (another instance of “I can’t do this myself, but I know people”—a frequent mantra of mine in the city-manager business). Survey

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Three Finger Technique On The Bass Guitar

The development of a 3 finger style playing technique on the bass guitar is one way for a finger style bassist to achieve speed. By clear demonstration on video and accompanying text including some exercises this tutorial by Graeme Carswell will bring your skills up to speed. Three Finger Technique On The Bass Guitar In addition to the music segments of the article a complete video of the lesson is also available on the Songstuff Channel

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The Writer's Blog

A Volunteer Gig...

I may have got myself—finally—a volunteer gig, and it will be fun and exciting. And it’s doing stuff I think I’m good at. The difference a month makes… When I went to the Bay City Arts Center’s board meeting in February, everybody was energetically and enthusiastically getting everything done—and then some—after the departure of their executive director. By last Monday night, they had all managed to get seriously burned out. But four people were there—three besides me—to tell them, “You

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Songstuff Stuff

Role Of Rolls - New Article

Ever wondered about the role of rolls? This article explores the basics of drum rolls and how they are used by trap-set drummers, giving clear demonstration by video accompanied by an clear written explanation. Role of Rolls

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Industry News

Amplitube 3 Now Shipping!

AmpliTube 3 Now Shipping! The New King of Tone More Gear, More Feel, More Power, More Tone March 2010, Modena, Italy – IK Multimedia is proud to announce that AmpliTube 3, a massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear-modeling software, is now shipping! AmpliTube 3 raises the industry standard of sound variety, realism and creative power - with over 160 precisely modeled pieces of vintage and modern gear available in one package - it is the ultimate gear tone collecti

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The Writer's Blog

A Couple Of Nice Things (But No Voice)...

Every now and then, you get a nice little “upper” that makes you feel like you’re doing something worthwhile I’d mentioned before that “When They Die, I Put Them in the Cookies” was a hit with kids. I heard from one mom who said her 8-year-old is going to be in a talent show, and wants to perform “the cookie song.” Can he? Of course. I’m honored. I’ll record a non-vocal track so he can sing to it. Wish I could be there, but all this is going to take place somewhere in Texas. (His mom sa

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The Writer's Blog

April 24 Benefit Concert...

The benefit concert for Val Folkema is set for SATURDAY, 24 APRIL, 7 P.M. at The Landing in Bay City. Two bands, roughly 1-1/2 to 2 hours apiece; we’ll be first. I’d like to tap both “Doc” Wagner and Mike Simpson to play lead again (and may not know for a while if we can get them). I presume since this is in a tavern, we’ll be wanting to do a lot of dance music. I don’t want to introduce a lot of new material (the more new material, the more practices we need—and everybody except me is

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Site Development

Two New Boards

We have created two new boards: Musical Arrangement Critique Melody, Harmony and Musical Arrangement These boards have been needed for some time... please make the most of them. Click now to come along and take part!

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The Writer's Blog

The New Business Model?

If I count both “Last Song of the Highwayman” and “Up in Heaven, the Angels Play Music” as “keepers”—and I think I will—I am still on schedule writing an average of one good song a month. The former song is not precisely a medieval ballad, nor is the latter precisely a polka; “not precisely” seems to apply to a lot of my songs. Not having anything else in the mental pipeline right now, I’ll devote my attention to musicating a couple of lyrics penned by other folks that have been hanging fire, “

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Chokai's Blog

The Infinity Circuit - The Daze Of Mother Earth - Out Now

The Infinity Circuit The Daze of Mother Earth ABRS022 Out Monday Feb 8th 2010 The Infinity Circuits' debut release is a dark combination of abrasive breaks and sinister bass lines with a wickedly fresh and complex vibe. New to the scene, but very hard to categorise, the Infinity circuit originally began as a purely drum n bass project, but grew into something quite different from the commercial scene with its darker tinges and political undertones. If you are into something truly cutt

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Industry News

The Infinity Circuit - The Daze Of Mother Earth - Out Now On Artificial Bliss Recordings

The Infinity Circuit The Daze of Mother Earth ABRS022 Out Monday Feb 8th 2010 The Infinity Circuits' debut release is a dark combination of abrasive breaks and sinister bass lines with a wickedly fresh and complex vibe. New to the scene, but very hard to categorise, the Infinity circuit originally began as a purely drum n bass project, but grew into something quite different from the commercial scene with its darker tinges and political undertones. If you are into something truly cutt

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The Writer's Blog

Ash Wednesday...

HAPPY ASH WEDNESDAY… The new song, tentatively hight “Up in Heaven the Angels Play Music,” is in final form, I think, and recorded. Not really a religious song (except in the sense that “Can I Have Your Car When the Rapture Comes?” is a religious song). I will plan on performing it at the library next Saturday, and see what folks there call it—that’ll be its real title. (That’s if folks bother to request it again, of course; if they don’t, it won’t matter). Link is http://www.soundclick.com

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Industry News

Mastering With T-Racks 3

Mastering with T-RackS 3 IK Multimedia's new T-RackS 3 mastering software provides all of the essential tools required to create superb quality, transparent and compelling masters. Here is your chance to book your place on our special T-RackS 3 Masterclass featuring guest engineer/producer Ben Fenner, whose credits include Radiohead, The Feeling, Brian Eno and many more. Ben will be using T-RackS 3 Deluxe to illustrate how its key features can be used in production and mastering scena

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John Moxey's Blog

I Have So Many Lyrics To Finish!

Wow, I have lots and lots of songs to complete lyrics for! At a rough count I would say 40... that's just sad... ok writing head on, time to get some serious writing time in. At least 5 are only short of a line or two so that isn't to bad, and I have about 6 others with no lyrics at all, just gentle mumbles as I go through playing them and singing the melody.

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The Writer's Blog

And On Friday, The Astoria Band Breaks Up...

First Wednesday afternoon at the Garibaldi Pub was good. Ultimately, there were six of us—four guitars, one vocalist, and one fiddle. Appreciative audience, too (someone even left a tip). We’ll do it again next Wednesday. It could become a regular thing. We did the Circle Thing—each person leads a song, and everybody else follows. I was trying to limit what I did to covers, assuming everybody knew those—the one Leon Payne song I can sing, the one Hank Williams song I can sing, one of a cou

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Songstuff Stuff

Writer's Block: How To Reignite The Creative Process

Struggling to turn ideas into finished songs is an annoying problem for many writers. Author, Joe Hanley has written a great article for Songstuff all about dealing with writer's block. Read Writer's Block: How to Reignite the Creative Process If you have any comments please raise them in this topic. Enjoy!

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Joe Hanley Joins Songstuff As An Author

Please welcome joe hanley to the Songstuff fold. Joe will be writing for Songstuff on a number of subjects concerning musicians and writers. Joe Hanley is a composer and songwriter in NYC and has spent 29 long, A.D.D.-ridden years on this big, beautiful Earth, jumping frenetically from one part of the music world to the next. He's toured with Universal-Motown recording artist Tina Parol, released a CMJ chart-ranking jazz album, and written and composed music for advertising, webs

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The Writer's Blog

Thirsty Lion Post-Mortem...

The Thirsty Lion gig wasn’t a disappointment, because I didn’t intend it to be. No, no money, no CD sales, and no additions to the “joelist,” but the audience was pretty appreciative (if pretty small), and I got to play what I wanted, and it was fun. Host Eric John Kaiser did remember me (I thought he might). They got six songs: Take-Out Food (Stan Good) When I Jump Off the Cliff I’ll Think of You Hey, Little Chicken The Abomination Two-Step Armadillo on the interstate Crosses

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