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Free promotional resource for musicians

Andrew Dubber writes an excellent New Music Strategies blog devoted to helping small-medium music businesses and independent artists use new online technologies and strategies in order to make money and thrive in the new environment. The site also provides a Newswire service that delivers daily links to articles about the latest developments in the music industry. He describes himself as a lecturer, author, speaker, broadcaster and new music enthusiast, and also teaches and does research at Birmingham City University in the U.K.

Best of all, Dubber has made available a free e-book for download, “The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online“. Based on a collection of his postings, the e-book helps musicians understand how the industry is changing and how to adapt and thrive online. This is an invaluable resource for any musician or independent music business wanting to have a successful web presence.

All-purpose love song

Does it seem like the same love song keeps getting recycled? If I were a singer, I’d be nervous about accidentally singing a line from a different song since the words are so interchangeable. But then it probably wouldn’t matter.

Listening to these songs, it appears there is nothing new to say, so I thought I would save writers the trouble and create an all-purpose love song. The lyrics below are assembled from existing songs over the past 40 years, each line from a different song. [Read more →]

Is a recession coming?

If you ask this question of a musician, the answer you’ll likely get is, “It’s already here.” In my band, Gemini Soul, we’ve noticed a dramatic slowdown in performance opportunities. [Read more →]

The genius of Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock has been recording albums for more than three decades, exploring a variety of different directions in jazz while maintaining an interest in the interface between jazz and popular music styles. For me, his first great album was Inventions and Dimensions (1963). With its stripped-down arrangements of bass, piano and percussion, the responsibility is solely Herbie’s to keep the music dynamic and interesting, and he manages to do so by drawing on both 20th century classical music and jazz. In “Succotash,” for instance, he moves easily from percussive rhythmic figures in the manner of Bartok to virtuosic melodic riffs to impressionistic chord progressions in the manner of Debussy. [Read more →]


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