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		<title>Get Publicity and &#8220;Make Money&#8221;</title>
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		<title>Singing Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natural Pitch As far as possible, do not have a huge difference in your singing pitch and the pitch or voice in which you talk. In fact, ideal would be to keep both the same. You are less likely to ruin your voice this way. Both high notes or low notes would not be a [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Natural Pitch</strong><br />
As far as possible, do not have a huge difference in your singing pitch and the pitch or voice in which you talk. In fact, ideal would be to keep both the same. You are less likely to ruin your voice this way. Both high notes or low notes would not be a problem for you then. If at all you are straining your voice at high pitch, it is an indicator that you are not singing at the same pitch as your speech.</p>
<p><strong>Elementary, My Dear Watson!</strong><br />
One of the most elementary things to do when you want to enhance your singing voice is to know the pronunciations and where to put your tongue and soft palate. This is because these two create a distinct sound, which can affect your singing. For your voice to resonate, the soft palate has to be raised. Then, the tip of the tongue should be at the back of your teeth. If it is positioned too far back, it will block your throat and you would not be able to sing.</p>
<p><strong>Exercise? Yes, Your Vocal Cords</strong><br />
For improving your singing voice, what you need to do is &#8216;SING&#8217;! Sing as much as you can! Sing until you hit the exact note after striking a chord on piano. If you cannot do this at home, go for a <a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/singing-lessons/">singing lessons</a> or hire a vocal trainer. Slowly and steadily as you master the lower and middle octaves, go for higher pitch. This will give the requisite range and power to your voice. Just as you would sing, listening to the maestros continuously is also necessary.</p>
<p><strong>Food For Voice</strong><br />
Keeping tabs on what you eat and drink is very important if you want to improve singing voice. Water, is what you need to drink all the time. If it is lukewarm the better. In addition to that too spicy or oil or even sour food can affect your voice box. Thus one needs to be careful about that. Specifically if you have a performance coming up, avoid heavy foodstuffs, particularly dairy products and thick drinks a couple of days before any performance.</p>
<p><strong>Breathing Exercises</strong><br />
These form a major part of exercises to improve your singing voice. Some of the exercises you can do to improve your breathing are inhaling for a single count and exhaling for 2 and slowly increase it, taking a big breath and blowing as hard as you can, as a superhero would to blow a huge fire and even plain deep breathing will go a long way in getting the best of your voice. If you go breathless, the fact that you have an amazing voice would be nullified.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Final notes</strong><br />
If you really want to know how to improve singing voice quality, it is extremely important that you are relaxed and warm up before a performance. Never start a song directly without warming up, which includes deep breathing and relaxing your body to gear up for the performance. Proceed to light humming from there and gauging the scale once you are ready. As far as possible avoid singing on the top of your volume and straining your vocal cords.</p>
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		<title>Top 10 Tips for Playing in a Band</title>
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<p>Don&#8217;t let any of this put you off; none of this is rocket science, just common-sense. Remember, these aren&#8217;t rules, just ideas to think about. Maybe some will work for you and some won&#8217;t. Maybe some could if you tried them.</p>
<p><strong>Be on a Winning Team</strong></p>
<p>A band is about working and playing together, so being a good player is fine, but unless you&#8217;re so phenomenally brilliant that you&#8217;re in constant demand (sorry, but most of us are not), then it&#8217;s actually more important to know how to work in a team of people.</p>
<p>Some artists think its cool to be temperamental (half temper and half mental!), but you&#8217;re making your own life harder than it needs to be if you put up with these people in your band, or even worse, if you&#8217;re one yourself. Working in a good team can be fantastic (you know: the power of the team is greater than the sum of its individuals). You can get a real buzz when you pull off a successful gig together. In the band, it benefits you, as a band member, to leave space for others to grow, learn and make mistakes.</p>
<p><strong>Know the People&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Working with people outside the band is also important &#8211; know your agents, promoters, employers (the ones who pay you) and your customers (the ones you&#8217;re playing to). Find out what they want, and treat them as people. Understand that your average (non-musician) audience will notice more than your music alone.</p>
<p><strong>In this order</strong>, your average audience will notice:</p>
<ol>
<li>Firstly, your presentation &#8211; how you do what you do</li>
<li>You&#8217;re appearance &#8211; what you look like</li>
<li>Lastly, your music &#8211; what you sound like</li>
</ol>
<p>This is a very uncomfortable concept for many musos. The only way to make your music more noticeable is to be exceptionally brilliant, or exceptionally bad.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t despair; performing music live is just a package deal. Don&#8217;t kid yourself either, that when you play people somehow switch onto a principle that your music is everything, and everything else is nothing.</p>
<p>More importantly music, like all art forms, is about giving. I think the way to enhance the perception of your music is to combine the above three elements into your performance. If you really like the music you play, you&#8217;ll find it easy to get into the feel of the songs, and that affects the way you look on stage, and allows you to present your music by giving something of yourself by expressing your feelings in a musical form, and making it real and credible experience for yourself and your audience.</p>
<p>This becomes a controversial topic when we stray into less credible musical territory. For example, if your entire audience pleads with you to play The Chicken Dance, would you play it? If not, why not? Would you be concerned about what other band members might think of you and how it might affect your credibility or reputation? Or is it your own pride telling you not to play anything musically trite? Are you above this sort of thing? Even if you never play The Chicken Dance it might be interesting for you to honestly answer some of these questions for yourself.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s the show-band field, where presentation and appearance is intentionally the main focus of the performance. Whether its a Grease revival or your own concept, it usually requires some theatrics and dressing up. This can be a genuine additional artistic outlet for those with acting and dramatic skills, although I think it can be a minefield for musicians who do not have this flair. It again raises questions of credibility and musical integrity.</p>
<p>For what its worth, I recently played 2 shows in a row with the same lineup of musos. The first night was a birthday party, all aged around mid forties. They wanted 70&#8242;s classics; rock, soul and a dash of blues, which we played. Next night we played at a wedding with ages from teenagers through to 60 year olds. It took us about set to figure it out, but they loved the old corny sing-along hits (like &#8220;Singin&#8217; the Blues&#8221;, &#8220;Runaway&#8221;, &#8220;Personality&#8221; and so on).</p>
<p>Now in my view, what we played the first night had a fair amount of musical credibility, while the second night did not. Nevertheless, our audiences loved the band on both nights, and we will get repeat work out of both shows. I choose to have a great night every night, and enjoy whatever I play, and these 2 nights were no exception.</p>
<p><strong>Practice, practice, practice!</strong></p>
<p>Tedious, yes. Rewarding, yes. When I was a boy (get the violins ready!) learning my music was a challenge. My music teachers taught Beethoven and Mozart, because they believed this was the only real music. Even the cheapo guitars I practiced with were almost unplayable.</p>
<p>Today, every music magazine is packed with playing tips and ideas for every music style you could want. There are instructional videos, YouTube and a wealth of web resources and cheap guitars are excellent value and very playable.</p>
<p>So practice, look, learn, listen, read, question, experiment. If you haven&#8217;t made ten mistakes today, you&#8217;re not trying hard enough!</p>
<p><strong>Know the Songs</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s more to learning a song than working out the chords, solos and lyrics. Know what the songs you play are about, and play something to enhance or create the right mood and tell the story.</p>
<p>You already have the tools at your disposal to create the mood, and make each song unique. Use your effects and techniques to advantage. Obvious effects are good for short periods; subtle effects are good for long periods.</p>
<p>Some examples of obvious effects and techniques are: using a loud echo repeat, a wah pedal, playing with lots of dive-bomb harmonics, or playing a continuous stream of notes without a pause. These can be very effective when used occasionally and briefly, otherwise they can become tiring to listen to. If you set your effects so you can only just tell they&#8217;re on, you can use them for a long time to add subtle textures to your music.</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Blame</strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t blame &#8230;<br />
&#8230; your audience if they don&#8217;t dance<br />
&#8230; your audience if they don&#8217;t applaud<br />
&#8230; your employer if you don&#8217;t get booked again<br />
&#8230; your agent if he can&#8217;t find the work you want<br />
&#8230; other band members when things go wrong<br />
&#8230; your engineer when you can&#8217;t hear yourself<br />
&#8230; your equipment when it fails<br />
&#8230; your partner when you&#8217;ve had a rough gig<br />
&#8230; life in general</p>
<p>All of these and more will happen over and over again in your career, and guess what? Blaming makes every one of them worse for you. Every one of these situations is solvable with a positive and philosophical attitude. So use every disappointment as an opportunity to learn to relax (relax I said!, now!), and think calmly about how you can do things differently next song or show.</p>
<p><strong>Choose the Right Songs</strong></p>
<p>If your thing is originals, you can skip this one. If you&#8217;re playing listening music (piano bars, restaurants, etc) then some of this might apply. If you&#8217;re a dance band playing covers then <strong>every</strong> song you play should be:</p>
<ul>
<li>well known by your intended audience</li>
<li>danceable (without too many tempo changes, avoid fast songs with slow passages)</li>
<li>playable (with your current instrument line up and individual abilities)</li>
</ul>
<p>As much as you might like that track 3 instrumental on the latest Gordon and the Groovers CD, if it doesn&#8217;t meet all three criteria, then you could learn and play it for your own enjoyment in the privacy of your own rehearsal room. Perform it publicly, and it will just seem irrelevant and self-indulgent, and maybe you&#8217;ll start to resent that others don&#8217;t share your own excellent taste in music.</p>
<p>When deciding what material to do, and what key to play it in, the front person has the final say &#8211; they are the ones who have the main role of selling the song, and if they&#8217;re uncomfortable, it will show.</p>
<p>If any player has a rational strong objection to a song, then find another song. If any player has an irrational strong objection to a song, then find another player.</p>
<p><strong>Have Fun</strong></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t enjoy playing, then don&#8217;t. Chances are that you do, and you can benefit from one of the best kept secrets in the industry &#8211; it&#8217;s OK to smile! Start practicing this with the corners of your mouth, and when you finally get the nerve, flash a bit of tooth! If you have fun, so will the people you&#8217;re playing to, then you feed off their energy, they feed off yours, &#8230; and a good time was had by all.</p>
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<p>You might also like to think about why you like to play. It is because:<br />
(a) You just like having fun with the band and enjoy the social occasion<br />
(b) For artistic expression<br />
(c) For your self-esteem (pride in your own ability to learn and play)</p>
<p>And the correct answer is &#8230; all of the above and more.</p>
<p>I think that if you play for many reasons, it means you are giving more, and in return you&#8217;ll get more enjoyment back from your music. If you are playing primarily for only one reason, or for the wrong reasons (maybe money) there&#8217;s a chance you could benefit by considering some of these ideas.</p>
<p><strong>Mix While You Play</strong></p>
<p>When you sing &amp; play, listen to how what you&#8217;re doing fits into the total band sound. If you have the idea that you just play your own way, and it&#8217;s the sound engineer&#8217;s job to mix it into the overall song and make you sound good, then you&#8217;re short-changing yourself. For example, no sound engineer can mix over-played keyboards with over-played guitar.</p>
<p>Think about these things &#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>Am I leaving enough space in my playing for the others? That notes-per-second meter on Nigel Tufnel&#8217;s (Spinal Tap) guitar is a joke &#8211; trust me on this!</li>
<li>Is my stage volume making it hard for other players to hear themselves?</li>
<li>Are my stage tones clashing with anyone else?</li>
<li>Does what I&#8217;m playing contribute to the mood and meaning of the song?</li>
</ul>
<p>Certainly, thinking about these things at first is distracting, and likely to make it harder for you to get into your own part. Just like practicing scales, though, it gets easier, until you can do it without even consciously thinking about it. That&#8217;s when you really start playing as a band! You will start to bounce off each other&#8217;s cues. Individuals can lead the band into places you&#8217;ve never been before, communicating with music alone!</p>
<p><strong>Take Care of Your Body</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve heard &#8216;em all:<br />
&#8230; &#8220;I play best when I&#8217;m wasted&#8221;<br />
&#8230; &#8220;I&#8217;m always in the right mood after 3 scotches&#8221;<br />
&#8230; &#8220;I need to smoke to get the high notes&#8221;</p>
<p>Yeah, maybe, &#8230; and maybe not.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a wowser (Australian term for one who expresses disapproval of others&#8217; actions); I reckon just about anything in moderation is a good thing. My point here is that (recent science experiments aside) we have only one body in our lifetime, so its worth looking after.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re serious about a music career, then you&#8217;ll need to be physically fit and have your head together. This is the only way I know to give an energetic and focused performance, and (I&#8217;ve said it before) the more you give &#8230;</p>
<p><strong> Love and Trust Yourself</strong></p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to prove this to anyone except yourself. Just like being physically fit, this is about being mentally and emotionally fit. Know what you want to do now and in the future, and work towards your goals. Trust your own intuition and your own judgement.</p>
<p>Some people tell me I&#8217;m lucky because I get lots of opportunities. I tell them I make my own opportunities and I make my own luck. Think and talk about good things, and good things happen.</p>
<p>You can easily spot a pessimist; when things go wrong, they say &#8220;That&#8217;s typical for me!&#8221;, but when things go well they say it was just a fluke. This is just plain unhealthy. Be optimistic; treat every setback as temporary. Treat every success as typical.</p>
<p>You may have heard of the story of two guys at a bar with half a glass of beer: one sees a glass half full, the other sees a glass half empty. Remind yourself often of your skills and achievements &#8211; that&#8217;s your half a glass. The rest of the glass is for the new skills you&#8217;re going to learn, and the new things you&#8217;ll do. It looks different already, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>Tips and Warning on Writing a Song</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips: Try the mainstream songwriting formula of&#8230; Verse &#8211; Chorus &#8211; Verse2 &#8211; Chorus2 &#8211; Bridge &#8211; Chorus3. It&#8217;s simple and quite effective. Just like any writer, you might get writer&#8217;s block. Follow the suggestions in How to Get Over Writer&#8217;s Block to break out of that creative rut. Currently most popular songs have some variation on [...]]]></description>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px;">Tips:</span></p>
<ul>
<li>Try the mainstream songwriting formula of&#8230; Verse &#8211; Chorus &#8211; Verse2 &#8211; Chorus2 &#8211; Bridge &#8211; Chorus3. It&#8217;s simple and quite effective.</li>
<li>Just like any writer, you might get writer&#8217;s block. Follow the suggestions in How to <a title="Get Over Writer's Block" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Over-Writer%27s-Block">Get Over Writer&#8217;s </a>Block to break out of that creative rut.</li>
<li>Currently most popular songs have some variation on the following sequence: intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge/instrumental solos, chorus, and sometimes an outro. Sometimes the order of these components is different, and sometimes one or more of them is absent.</li>
<li>Dynamics are a good tool to utilize to separate out the different sections of the song. Quieter for verses, louder in the choruses. Dynamics can also help to create that chorus <strong>hook</strong> that everyone will remember when listening to your song.</li>
<li>It helps to know how to play an instrument. Knowing how to play a guitar or piano, for instance, will make songwriting immeasurably easier. Plus, you&#8217;ll be able to accompany yourself when you sing for others. If you don&#8217;t have an instrument, try using Google to find some song makers. Free ones are hard to find, but you can always get a free trial.</li>
<li>If you do play an instrument, try putting it down once in a while. Spend more time singing to come up with melodies and sounds. This way you eliminate the possibility of just playing the &#8220;same old licks&#8221;.</li>
<li>Experiment with lots of ways of making sound. Try to play an instrument you are less familiar with. The &#8220;mistakes&#8221; you make may prove inspiring.</li>
<li>While a lot of musicians and songwriters don&#8217;t know much about music theory—and some can&#8217;t even read music—a good knowledge of the essentials of music can help you harness your creativity and develop your own style. Even if you can play and sing by ear amazingly, knowing at least how to read and write music will help you play with others and communicate your music to your band members (if you plan to start a band).</li>
<li>Stop, collaborate and listen to another songwriter. Some people can pen great lyrics, but can&#8217;t write a melody to save their lives; for others, the reverse is true. Find a like-minded songwriter who can put your words to music or your music to words. Many hit songs have been written by collaboration.</li>
<li>Make sure your song is catchy, but not in that annoying way.</li>
<li>Take your time. Most songs don&#8217;t pop out of nowhere and scream, &#8220;Hi! Here I am! Write me!&#8221; As the old saying goes, &#8220;good things take time, but really great things happen in the blink of an eye&#8221;. So just wait for it. One day you&#8217;ll get it.</li>
<li>If you&#8217;ve got total writer&#8217;s block, start by scribbling out your feelings/what you want to talk about. The lyrics will come to you when you see the lyrics on paper. Well, it might take some work, but at least get those beginnings of a song down.</li>
<li>Another great way of writing a song is to write a free verse poem with a little rhyming. I find it easiest to write songs when I don&#8217;t think of them as songs but as poems. I write my poem then edit it by finding the right stanzas for the verses and the perfect stanza for a catchy chorus that pulls it all together.</li>
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<li>Avoid plagiarism. Naturally, you don&#8217;t want to just copy the melody or the exact words of a hit song. Another, more subtle problem is <em>subconscious plagiarism,</em> where a songwriter does not realize that he or she is largely copying another song. This has happened before in songs such as &#8220;Spirit in the Sky&#8221;, which is often mistaken for ZZ Top&#8217;s later hit song, &#8220;La Grange&#8221;. If you worry that your song sounds like another song, you might be right. Play it for as many listeners as you can, and see if they think so, too. You need to avoid people mistaking your song for another song, or they may not credit you for writing it.</li>
<li>Be careful with rhyming. Don&#8217;t choose a word just because it rhymes with another—make sure the words make sense in the song. Be aware of rhyming dictionaries: they can be helpful, but if you overuse them, you&#8217;re liable to start sounding ridiculous. A thesaurus is a better tool: it will give you the most ways to express your thoughts, and help you find the best lyrics.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t let yourself become constrained by the &#8220;verse-chorus&#8221; structure. A lot of excellent songs are written as a single string of ideas instead of one idea repeated multiple times. Maybe that &#8220;hook&#8221; you came up with would work better as a one-time-only &#8220;climax&#8221; that the rest of the song builds up to. Don&#8217;t be afraid to get creative. Adding some variety to your song structures makes for richer variation in your songs.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid to try something new. Many highly influential and well regarded musicians have become successful through avoiding many conventions all together. Don&#8217;t feel like you are bound to what is considered contemporary or safe. Music is an art, and as such some of the most rewarding work you can do can be the most different. Many genres of music ignore conventional song writing structure (for example, progressive rock is structured in a way that there is often no discernible verse or chorus.) With experience, you will learn where you want to take songs, and you should follow your intuition.</li>
<li>Try something new! Be original and experiment with different things. Who says that you always have to rhyme every stanza or have a chorus?</li>
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<h4><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><a title="Network Marketing or MLM Tools" href="http://publicityforwomen.com/membership-home/membership-module-x-3/businessarticles/membership-content-3/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #008000;">M</span></a>ake New Friends, Promote your Music and Your Band, Enjoy and &#8220;Make Money&#8221;</strong></span></h4>
<h3><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: 800;">Check this OUt&#8230;.<span style="color: #008080;"><strong><a href="http://www.empowernetwork.com/go/make-money-with-your-music-bands-publicity-for-bands/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #008080;"> &#8220;Make Money with your Music Bands &#8220;Publicity for Bands&#8221;</span></a></strong></span></span></h3>
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		<title>How to Write a Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Want to write a hit song? Join the club! The problem with hits is that they require a fair amount of talent and a huge serving of luck. Almost anybody, however, can write a really good song, and the feeling you get when you do is even better than the feel of cold, hard [...]]]></description>
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<p>Want to write a hit song? Join the club! The problem with hits is that they require a fair amount of talent and a huge serving of luck. Almost anybody, however, can write a really good song, and the feeling you get when you do is even better than the feel of cold, hard cash. Whether you&#8217;re a beginner or an experienced songwriter, here&#8217;s how to tap your potential and bring out the music inside you.</p>
<p><strong><strong>Stop thinking about writing songs, and start writing songs</strong>.</strong> You really want to be a famous star, don&#8217;t you? You daydream about being on stage and hearing the roar of the crowd. Only trouble is, gee whiz, you&#8217;re dreaming your life away. If you want to write a really good song, you&#8217;re going to have to work for it. Start today. Commit to writing a certain number of songs per week, the way successful authors commit to writing a thousand words a day.</p>
<p><strong>Listen <em>actively</em> to a lot of different types of music</strong>. Good writers read several genres of books. Good songwriters listen to genres of songs. As you listen, think about what you like about a song. Are the lyrics unique, do the song&#8217;s chord changes perfectly capture a mood, do you like the transition from one part of the song to another?</p>
<p><strong><strong>Get technical</strong>.</strong> You don&#8217;t have to have a degree in music theory to write a good song, but you should have an understanding of how songs are built. This includes a basic understanding of harmony, melody, and rhythm. Harmony, Having to do with chord arrangements having harmonic qualities that blend with both the rhythmic feel and the melody of the song. A beginner would want to look into basic major and minor keys and chords which pertain to the given key they are working in. The I IV and V chords of any key can be thought of as a meat and potatoes way of writing a song as these three chords will accompany any melody that stays within the given key. There are infinite ways to structure a song, but there&#8217;s a common sequence found in most of them (see Tips). As you listen to songs, try to identify the different parts. Check yourself by looking at lyrics online or in a music book; the parts of songs are often labeled in these media.</p>
<p><strong>Be ready when inspiration comes calling</strong>. Unfortunately, inspiration usually doesn&#8217;t strike at the most convenient times, so it&#8217;s important that you be able to remember each new song that pops into your head, no matter where you are. Carry a pen and paper with you wherever you go, or better yet, carry a tape recorder or digital audio recorder&#8211;melodies can be extremely difficult to capture on paper unless you have a strong music background.</p>
<p><strong><strong>Start with writing lyrics</strong>.</strong> Think about something that really touched you or changed your life. That special someone? A bully? A bad breakup? Think about it and describe it. How did that feel? Did it hurt? Does (s)he make you think about him/her all the time? Just start by thinking about personal experiences!</p>
<p><strong>You can usually <strong>record yourself a memo</strong> on a cell phone, and if not, you can call yourself and leave a message of your singing or humming on your voice mail</strong>. Make sure you sing loud enough for the song to be clear when you listen to the message later; make people think you&#8217;re crazy!</p>
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<li>It would be helpful if you have a musical instrument (e.g. Piano, keyboard, guitar, etc.) so that you can explore the music. An added advantage is that you can easily write down the notes (or tabs) when you have a tune. Try recording it for feedback. Guitars plug directly into computer microphone jacks with an adapter. You can always go back to your recording. It helps. If you revise it, then record it again.</li>
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<p><strong>Figure out what you&#8217;ve got</strong>. Once in a while, inspiration will hit you like a full force gale, and suddenly you have a full song out of nowhere. Most of the time, however, just a small piece of a potential song will come to you, leaving you to do the hard, but fun work of fleshing it out. You should have a feel for what part of the song you&#8217;ve come up with.</p>
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<li>If it&#8217;s super catchy (either a lyrical phrase or a snippet of music), and you can envision it being a repeated theme in the song, you&#8217;ve got the refrain—the climax or summary of your musical story—and you need to write verses to explain how you know in detail.
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<p><strong><strong>Set the mood</strong>.</strong> Make sure your music fits the story. If it is sad, then you may want your melody to evoke sadness (by slowing it down or adding some minor chords, for example) or you might want to add a twist and combine sad lyrics to upbeat music in order to create a sense of tension and ambiguity.</p>
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<div><strong><strong>Say something</strong>.</strong> A song can get by with poor lyrics, and you have a better chance of writing a really good song if your lyrics are great. This does not mean they have to be serious, but they should not be cliché or ho-hum. Write your lyrics as though you are talking to somebody who you want to impress or to someone toward whom you feel some sort of deep emotion.</div>
<p><strong><strong>Make your words sing</strong>.</strong> Lyrics can appeal to emotions, and they should also appeal to the ear. There are a few different ways to do this. Words should fit with a rhythm you are creating in the song, and the way these words sound play an important part as well. Some words sound smoother than others (for example, &#8220;cool breeze&#8221; sounds smoother than &#8220;frigid wind.&#8221;) Use the texture and character of words to add to the feeling of a song. Another useful tool for the song writer is rhyme. There are a variety of ways you can rhyme lines in a song to help tie the lyrics together. Learn about these and other tools of poetry, and try putting them to work for you.</p>
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<li>You can rhyme at the end of every line or every other line, or your rhymes can come more sporadically. You can also rhyme within lines for a more subtle effect. There are also other poetic devices you can use, such as alliteration (&#8220;They paved paradise, put up a parking lot&#8221;). The &#8220;p&#8221; sound is repeated. And, assonance (&#8220;&#8230;honesty, promise me I&#8217;m never gonna find you faking&#8221;). The repeated &#8220;ah&#8221; sound in &#8220;honesty&#8221;, &#8220;promise&#8221; and &#8220;gonna&#8221;). However, <em>do not burden yourself with rhyme!</em>You can get away with making a phrase stand out by avoiding conventional means of fitting it into a song, and many successful songs do not rhyme at all.</li>
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<div><strong><strong>Strike a balance between repetition and variety</strong>.</strong> Repetition is what makes a song catchy; repeated choruses, for example, stick in our heads even when the rest of a song does not. It is easy to ask people to join you in a refrain, which is why it is usually called a chorus. That’s why so many people know just a few lines of so many songs. While there<em>are</em> good songs that are so simple that they have no chorus and have the same line length, the same rhyme schemes, and the same chord progressions repeated throughout them, most people get bored with that. The most common way to add variety is to insert a bridge into your song.</div>
<div><strong><strong>Look for the hook</strong>.</strong> The hook is that elusive part of a great song that captures your very soul and makes you want to listen to that song over and over. Hooks are frequently found in the chorus and often become the title of the song. Sadly, there is no recipe for hooks, but you&#8217;ll know when you have one. Better yet, your friends will tell you, because it is the part of a song they can not seem to get out of their head.</div>
<p><strong>Smooth the rough edges</strong>. If the pieces do not fit together, try building a transition. Put all the sections of your song in the same key. If your song suddenly changes in tempo (speed) between the two parts, try gradually changing the speed as you enter and exit the section that does not fit with the rest of the song. Try adding a short instrumental interlude that will carry you from one part to the next. While it is possible that two parts should not be in the same song, it could be that you started one part with the wrong meter or wrong kind of beat.</p>
<p><strong>Get feedback</strong>. Play or sing your song for people and get their opinions. You’ll probably get a better idea of what they really think after you’ve written a few songs: friends and family may tell you that your first song is great even if it’s awful, but as they hear more of your songs, they’ll probably give you hints like, &#8220;It’s good, but I liked that first one you wrote better&#8221; or &#8220;Wow, that’s the best song you’ve written. That’s a really good song.&#8221; Be prepared for a critic in the family that will accept nothing less than to hear it post-produced with all the bells and whistles that a band in a studio can offer.</p>
<p><strong>Once you&#8217;ve finished your first song, don&#8217;t stop</strong>. Keep writing and practicing, and you&#8217;ll <a title="Find Yourself" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Find-Yourself">find </a>yourself getting better and better. You may need to write a lot of songs before you hit on one you really like, and even after that, you may need to write a lot more before you get another good one. Work hard and have fun doing it!</p>
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<p><strong>Next:  <span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://www.empowernetwork.com/go/tips-and-warning-on-writing-a-song/" target="_blank">&#8220;Tips and Warning in Writing a Song&#8221;</a></span></strong></p>
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		<title>Choose Songs for Demos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Good music is the crucial ingredient in a good music demo, naturally, but there&#8217;s more to putting a demo together than just loading it up with your favorite songs. You&#8217;ve got a limited (read: VERY limited) amount of time to make an impact with your demo, so picking the right songs is key. Follow these [...]]]></description>
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<p>Good music is the crucial ingredient in a good music demo, naturally, but there&#8217;s more to putting a demo together than just loading it up with your favorite songs. You&#8217;ve got a limited (read: VERY limited) amount of time to make an impact with your demo, so picking the right songs is key. Follow these steps to choose songs for demos that will make your listener want to hear more. Although these steps are designed to specifically address picking out your demo songs, check the end of the article for more info about demos in general.</p>
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</strong><strong>Make a List</strong>:Right off the bat, you probably have a some ideas about which songs have demo potential and which songs you don&#8217;t want to lead with. Make a list of the songs you&#8217;d like to consider for your demo, and stick to it. This list may be pretty short if you don&#8217;t have many songs in your arsenal yet, but remember your demo is only going to contain a few songs &#8211; narrowing your catalog down to a list of &#8220;maybe&#8221; tracks will keep you focused and help stop you from going in circles and second guessing yourself. The songs on the list are in play for a place on your demo and the others are out. It will make life easier.<strong>Get Critical</strong>:I know, I know, they&#8217;re all masterpieces. But your demo needs to be short, so you&#8217;re going to have to make some cuts. Try to think like a listener &#8211; keeping in mind that the person listening to your demo listens to LOTS of demos and that you probably only have 20 seconds or so to stop them moving to the next track (or the next demo). First, make a pass through your list to see if there is anything else you can cross off right away. If not, read on to find out what to look for in the perfect demo track.<strong>Choose the Tracks</strong>:<strong>Here&#8217;s what to look for:</strong></p>
<p>Strong beginnings: does the music not really kick in until 1:20? Skip it.</p>
<p>Catchy beat/refrain/etc: you may not be as in love with your catchier, lighter fare are as you with your deeper, more complex work, but the song that your listener won&#8217;t be able to get out of their head will work best for you here. (Yes, they may initially curse you for having your song on repeat in their skull, but eventually, they will just HAVE to hear it again.)</p>
<p>Signature songs: No, don&#8217;t write a theme song. But if you have a song that is a bit different that everyone associates with you, go for it.</p>
<p><strong>Lose The Tracks</strong>:</p>
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<div>The growers: Sure, song X might be everyone&#8217;s favorite of yours, but if it took everyone 128 listens before they fell in love with it, it doesn&#8217;t belong on your demo.</div>
<div><strong>Solicit Opinions</strong>:</div>
<div>Get a few trusted friends &#8211; the friends who are willing to offer you constructive criticism &#8211; and let them listen to your demo. Get their honest feedback and make changes as needed. This works best if you can rustle up a few friends who haven&#8217;t heard the songs. That way, you can tell them to listen to the tracks until they&#8217;ve heard enough, and then move on to the next one. This will allow you to to get an idea of how first time listeners at labels may respond. Even if your friends all know all of your songs, it&#8217;s still important to run the whole thing by some fresh ears.</div>
<div><strong>Leave It Alone</strong>:</div>
<div>Once you&#8217;ve chosen the tracks and taken the feedback into account, draw a line under your finished demo. You can second guess yourself, and then triple and quadruple guess when it comes to making a demo, but in reality, it&#8217;s kind of like a test. Your first guess (or try) is usually the right one.</div>
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<h4><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><a title="Network Marketing or MLM Tools" href="http://publicityforwomen.com/membership-home/membership-module-x-3/businessarticles/membership-content-3/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #008000;">M</span></a>ake New Friends, Promote your Music and Your Band, Enjoy and &#8220;Make Money&#8221;</strong></span></h4>
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<pre><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">Online music promotion - you know you need to do it, but the number of options available to get the job done can be down right overwhelming. This how-to guide for promoting music online will walk you through the steps you need to follow to set up an internet music promotion strategy that works for you. There's no single blueprint that works for everyone, but these steps will make sure you set off down the right path.</span></pre>
<p><strong>Get Serious</strong></p>
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<div id="articlebody">The kiss of death for online music promotion is to think that all there is to it is to throw up some online profiles and wait for the fans to start pouring in. There are way, way (way) too many internet music promotion tools available for you to strike out half heartedly into this process. Nor can you allow managing your internet presence become the only thing you are really doing with your music career. Decide up front that you&#8217;re going to put some time into developing a strategy and that you&#8217;re going to resist the urge to lallygag around on Facebook all day and pretend it&#8217;s work. Ahem.</div>
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<div><strong>Find Your Fans</strong></div>
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<div>With <em>so</em> many promotional tools out there, you can be sure that your fans are not on ALL of them. Because you need your online music promotion work to be manageable, you need to be selective about the sites you use, and at the top of the list should be the sites where people like your fans congregate. Indie rockers needn&#8217;t post their vids all over World Star Hip Hop while mainstream country artists don&#8217;t need to be trying to blow up on Pitchfork. Not sure where your fans are? Well, where are you? Chances are, your own net habits are a good guide.</div>
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<div><strong>Develop Two Strategies</strong></div>
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<div>When we talk about internet music promotion, we&#8217;re really talking about two things &#8211; getting reviews and other coverage on blogs and internet magazines, much like the promotion you would get in print media, and your own promotion work that involves interacting with your fans, usually using social media. You need a different plan for each. But more on that below&#8230;</div>
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<div><strong>Strategy One &#8211; Online Media</strong></div>
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<div>Contrary to popular belief, getting actual coverage &#8211; reviews and interviews &#8211; for your music online isn&#8217;t much different than it is in the print world. In fact, it may be easier. You need some music, a press release and a database of contacts. That last one is the trickiest part if you&#8217;ve never done any promo before, but there&#8217;s no mystery. Set aside an afternoon, make a list of sites/blogs you like and create a spreadsheet that contains the contact info for them. It&#8217;s not glamorous, but it&#8217;s a good time investment. Now, contact them, make a pitch and start the dialogue. More info below.</div>
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<div><strong>Strategy Two: Fan Interaction</strong></div>
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<div>This is the part where you start to use social networking sites. Remember when you found your fans online, way back in step two? This step is also where you&#8217;ll use that info. Give your fans something of value while social networking. Let them in on the recording process, tell them when you&#8217;re writing new songs and so on. They will enjoy hearing about your day to day life to a certain extent, but remember to deliver the goods as well. More info below.</div>
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<div><strong>Make Online Promo Part of Your Daily Routine</strong></div>
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<div>Set aside some time each day to manage your online presence &#8211; just don&#8217;t make it your WHOLE day.</div>
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<div>Don&#8217;t forget to have your own website! There&#8217;s no substitute for having your own website to control your message and create your image. Learn more about setting up a website.</div>
<div>One way to further engage your fans &#8211; and to gather more info about them to you can target your promotion strategy &#8211; is to give up some goods in exchange for the 411. For instance, offer a free download in exchange for signing up for your newsletter. Depending on how you structure your newsletter sign-up, you can get email address, fav websites, geographic locations &#8211; a veritable marketing info jackpot. Plus, your newsletter is one more tool to keep your fans in the loop.</div>
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		<title>How to Make a Band and Get Discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putting together a band with the hopes of becoming famous can sometimes be a discouraging thing. There is a lot of work involved, and everyone in the band will need to put in an equal amount of work and dedication and be on the same page. However, by following this guide, you may just walk [...]]]></description>
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<pre>Putting together a band with the hopes of becoming famous can sometimes be a discouraging thing. There is a lot of work involved, and everyone in the band will need to put in an equal amount of work and dedication and be on the same page. However, by following this guide, you may just walk down the avenue of success a lot sooner.</pre>
<p><strong>Find a band to join or start a new one</strong>. There are several avenues to accomplish this goal. First, put out fliers saying you&#8217;re looking to make a band. If you know the genre of music you want to play, decide what kinds of instruments you will need and make sure to mention who/what you&#8217;re looking for in your fliers (e.g. Looking for a jazz trumpet player). Also, post the fliers in places where you&#8217;ll get the best results. Posting fliers for rock musicians in a jazzy coffee shop won&#8217;t get you many replies.</p>
<p><strong>Have auditions until you find the perfect match for you</strong>. You may want to interview the musician on their musical interests and work ethic as well to ensure that you will be compatible.</p>
<p><strong>Find a place to practice</strong>. Make sure the practice place is accessible to everyone, and easy to use. If the practice area is a 30 minute drive for your drummer, he/she will probably get fed up with having to load/unload the drum set over and over.</p>
<p><strong>Practice on your own so you&#8217;ll be good and so you&#8217;ll know your skills</strong>.If you practice for a jazz band, go somewhere quiet enough to practice.</p>
<p><strong>When you get your band together, practice a lot</strong>. Be sure to make these practices productive. If you spend the whole time sitting around talking about the latest sports event, your band will not succeed (unless you&#8217;re REALLY lucky).</p>
<p><strong>Start finding your sound</strong>. This will often come about once the band starts to work together and gel. Every individual&#8217;s style will come together to form a unique sound.</p>
<p><strong>Make an image for the group</strong>. This includes an interesting band name and wearing certain clothes to live shows. If someone hears a hardcore band on stage they sound really great and then they look up and see a bunch of middle aged men with beer bellies wearing wife beaters and mesh shorts they are going to be turned off by them. They want they see to match what they&#8217;re hearing.</p>
<p><strong>Figure out how best to write your music</strong>. Many bands have 1 or 2 members who write the basics for every song and then let the band take it from there. Other bands may write while jamming with the entire group, although this may take longer.</p>
<p><strong>Once you have a decent set of songs, consider recording a demo</strong>. If you are serious about your band, and have the funds, you can look into booking some time at a studio. This will be expensive compared to a tape recorder, but the quality will be greatly improved and may result in your band being hired more often. Plus, it&#8217;ll give you a good quality recording to play for your family and friends until you can get a real album recorded.</p>
<p><strong>Start with small gigs</strong>. Call the local clubs and ask if you can play. Find parties to play at. If you&#8217;re in school, sign up for the talent show, or ask to play at lunch for your peers. By starting small, you can get a taste of how audiences react, what to do when you get better gigs, and make a little bit of spending cash =)</p>
<p><strong>Look on craigslist</strong>.com. There is a section where club managers and event planners post gig information. These will often be paying gigs and are great ways to expose your band to the public.</p>
<p><strong>Get an agent</strong>. They know how the business works and who to talk to.</p>
<p><strong>Once you have more spending money, invest in studio time</strong>. A few hours in a studio with an experienced engineer can produce wonders. If your band has been performing and practicing together regularly, you should be able to go from one song to the next, just as if it were a gig. House Of The Rising Sun by the Animals was recorded in one take because they had toured with the song for so long, it was second nature. Once you have a quality recording of your band, send it to record companies and radio stations. You can also produce CDs and sell them at your gigs.</p>
<p><strong>Create webpages for your band</strong>. MySpace.com is a great way to expose your band to the public and there are many other sites with similar programs that are free and work very well, and as much as you may not want to give your music away for free because trust me it really really does help! But remember not many famous bands started off with a myspace page</p>
<p><strong>Tell everyone you know about your band</strong>. Family, friends, people you meet at McDonald&#8217;s. Get as much exposure as you possibly can.</p>
<p><strong>Once you book a good sized gig, create a poster with a picture of your band and info about the gig</strong>. You can create 20 or so copies for a good price and spread them around town. They&#8217;ll catch peoples eyes and bring more people to your gigs.</p>
<p><strong>Sell cheap tickets for small gigs hold them in small clubs or parks</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Forget about being nervous, just have fun</strong>. If you have stage fright, just find a dark place in the back of the location to look whenever you get nervous. That way you won&#8217;t be unnerved by your cheering fans =)</p>
<p><strong>Above all &#8211; continue to practice</strong>!!! You may want to rewrite or redirect songs as your band/sound evolves. This is perfectly ok. It gives you something new and exciting to play, and it gives your fans something to look forward to. Also, try not to get too confident and cocky and don&#8217;t practice. If you want to have a good band, remember; practice a lot.</p>
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