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Music Production Tips For Recording Thick Vocals

Learn music production tips for recording thick vocals. Play around with some of the ideas in the video and leave some of your own music production tips in the comment section.…

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Added by Indy on February 8, 2013 at 8:41pm — No Comments

Hitmaker T-Pain Gives Songwriting Tips On Creativity

Hitmaker T-Pain let's songwriters know what it really takes to be successful in the music industry. He says the key to making great music is confidence and creativity.…

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Added by Indy on September 17, 2012 at 11:14am — No Comments

3 Business Etiquette Tips For Licensing Your Music

Here are a few important tips for helping you license your music. You have to be patient and persistent in order to succeed in the music publishing business. If you don't hear back from your point of contact after 3 to 4 weeks, follow up with them through email or by…

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Added by Indy on January 26, 2012 at 2:43pm — No Comments

Music Producer Ce Ce G's Top 5 Beat Making Tips

Music producer Ce Ce G aka BeautyOnDaBeat gives you five beat making tips. You can check out some of her available beats out at BeautyOnDaBeat.net. Also, peep her Youtube page for more beat making videos…

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Added by Indy on December 21, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Songwriting Tips For Pitching Your Music To Artists

Learn how to pitch your music to artists as a songwriter in the ever consolidating music business. Many artists write for themselves now, learn how to network your way into the songwriter role on their project.…

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Added by Indy on December 12, 2011 at 10:25am — No Comments

Awesome Tips For Mixing Your Next Hit Record

Justin from Winksound Studios breaks down some tips for mixing your next hit record. Please leave any mixing tips you use in the comments section…

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Added by Indy on November 28, 2011 at 7:30am — No Comments

Mixing Tips For Enhancing Loops And Instruments

Grammy award winning mixing engineer Dave Pensado reveals studio secrets for getting the best sound out of loops and instruments. He has worked with Mariah Carey, Usher, and Beyonce just to name a few. Some of the techniques you will see are known as paralleling.…

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Added by Indy on October 21, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Learn The Keys To A Great Vocal: The Three P’s

In the studio, the three P’s, pitch, pocket and passion, are what a producer lives by. You’ve got to have all three to have a dynamite vocal. And while Pitch and Pocket problems can be fixed by studio trickery, if you don’t have Passion, you don’t have a vocal. On stage, the three P’s apply maybe even more so, since you don’t have any of the cut and paste and autotune advantages of the… Continue

Added by Indy on July 15, 2011 at 1:30am — No Comments

Songwriting Tips To Make Your Songs More Special

Songwriting can be an excellent way to express feelings and emotion, but let's not forget about one of the most important parts of the process. When you write there should be something special about the song. Good songs need that undefinable magic.…

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Added by Indy on July 1, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

5 Tips For Preparing For Your Next Studio Session

These 5 tips for preparing for a studio session come from MusicThinkTank. Make sure you check out their full article here and…

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Added by Indy on June 24, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

How to Get Your Beats Placed With Major Labels

Breaking into the production game is as tough as breaking into the artist game. New producers often have trouble attracting the attention of A&Rs and established artists who, many times, prefer to work with producers that have a track record of previous hits or that they already have a personal or working relationship… Continue

Added by Indy on April 14, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

Learn The Best Way To Get The Best Publishing Deal

As a Music Attorney, the question that I am most frequently asked by Songwriters and Music Producers who have been presented with a Publishing Deal is, "How do I know if this is the right deal for me?" As with everything in the music industry, publishing deals can be complex. The following questions and answers are meant to help Songwriters analyze the…
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Added by Indy on April 5, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

Touring Tips: Learning How To Book Your First Tour

Getting your band off the ground is full of “chicken or the egg?” situations. One of the things I commonly hear bands say that if they just had a booking agent, they could really get things moving. But booking agents only want to work with bands that already have things… Continue

Added by Indy on March 11, 2011 at 3:52pm — No Comments

Songwriting 101: What It Means To Keep A Song Fresh

When we talk about freshness, we’re really talking about ways to keep the energy of the song in a generally upward-moving direction. When energy levels off, that’s when staleness becomes a problem. Use one of the suggestions from below to create something unique and fresh for your song.…



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Added by Indy on March 5, 2011 at 7:42am — No Comments

The Top 10 Ways To Make Your Gig Unforgettable

So you’ve booked a gig. Now you have one mission: To make it so unforgettable that the people who attend can’t stop talking about it. You want them to come to your next show, and bring their friends. So what can you do to make your gig the best it can be?…





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Added by Indy on February 14, 2011 at 1:46am — No Comments

Production Tips: Real Talk With Rad on Paper Work

With nearly a decade of experience under his belt working in the A&R department for Bad Boy Records, Conrad Dimanche is no stranger to the inner workings of the professional music recording process and the financial structure built around the process. In our first installment of Real Talk we chop it up with Rad… Continue

Added by Indy on February 9, 2011 at 5:00pm — No Comments

How’s Your New Melody? Run it Past This Checklist

Since every melody is different, you’d think that there’s basically no way to know if your new melody is going to click or bomb. Not true! There are ways to make pretty sure that your melody has the best chance possible for success. Run it past this checklist. I know my melody is good because:…



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Added by Indy on January 31, 2011 at 9:15am — No Comments

4 Ways You Can Make Your Music More Original

Authenticity

An artist has to be real for anyone to care. People smell a phony a mile away. Now more than ever since 'everything has been done'. And since it is so easy to access virtually anything at anytime anywhere, people are not easily smitten with, “Wow, I’ve never…

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Added by Indy on January 21, 2011 at 1:00am — No Comments

Learn How To Get Ahead In Your Town’s Music Scene

Here’s a question I get all the time as an advisor for the online school and as a working musician: How do I get my own gig? There is a fine art to becoming a successful working musician. Here’s the good news: you don’t have to be Picasso to do it. Half the battle is as simple as believing in your product. That’s… Continue

Added by Indy on January 1, 2011 at 9:04pm — No Comments

TrackHustle.com Presents Tips On The Music Biz 4

Here's some great articles on the music business. As oppose to making separate posts, I figured that they'd be easier to read if I combined them on one page. Tell me what topics you'd like to see covered.…



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Added by Indy on December 24, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

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