5 Steps To Organize Your Song Files
It happens to every songwriter. The business of music. Your focus is on writing songs, not organizing your song files! Why bother? But,...
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Song Target Your Way To A Cut
Targeting can be on of your best tools in not only building your song chops but adding to your sales skills. It’s a way of making...
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Music Business Made Easy!
If you’re trying to make it in the new world order of independent music, this is the music business book for you. I’ve used...
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2016 Texas Music Chart #1 Recap
Fifty weeks of #1 songs on the 2016 Texas Music Chart can quickly fly by, so we thought it would be pretty cool to recap the year of #1s....
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When Should You Copyright A Song?
Your biggest first question when you’re considering a copyright is: “Do you need to spend the money?” Remember, as soon...
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Pro Tip: Having A Songwriting Life
I was recently in Nashville recording a demo at The 515 Studio, and got to know Chip Hardy, a long-time music industry producer and...
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Demo Song Recording Tips: The Music
The tips below should help you direct and get the best music tracks possible from any studio. If you record in Nashville, odds are...
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6 Tips To Make Your Songs More Commercial
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Songwriting Toolkit
Wondering what to get that special songwriter in your life? Or maybe you’re just starting out and are wondering what the minimum...
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Original Songwriter Demos
Hit songs come from the original songwriter demos being pitched to different publishers in Nashville. Ever wonder what your favorite...
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Song Demo Process
The song demo process is different depending on where your song is done or if you use an online service. I personally don’t like...
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Song Demo: Should You Do One?
I finished up a new song and went ahead and did a demo at Beaird Music Group. What a great experience! But before I get into the process,...
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Songwriting Contracts
Having agreements and contracts in place is important, but often overwhelming, especially if all you want to do it write songs. But...
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10 Key Parts Of A Songwriter Contract
The Songwriter’s Guild of America is a great resource for understanding exactly what impacts songwriters from a business...
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Courteous Songwriter Forums?
Updated 11/1/14 Songwriter Forums Can Help There are some great places on the web to find people who also write. Sometimes the hardest...
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Songwriting Apps For iPad®
While songwriting apps for the iPhone® are fine, it’s a small screen, and you may be like me – you have an Android® phone and...
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Critical Prep Work Before Recording A Demo
One of the most important things to do before recording a demo of your song with a company is pre-production. I’ve provided a small...
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Organizing & Storing Your Songs
Organizing your songs, keeping them catalogued and making sure you have your electronic files stored and backed up properly are important,...
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Song Key Conversion Site
There are a few sites on the web that allow you to either copy and paste the chords, or find the song in their library, then select the...
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Recording Your Songs
Updated 3/20/17 Recording your songs falls into a couple of buckets: worktapes and professional demos. Once you start writing,...
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Nashville Number System Made Easy
If you’ve recorded in Nashville, you’ve run into the Nashville Number System. While I could explain it here, there are quite a...
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Q&A With Producer Kim Copeland
What is a songplugger? How do you make sure your songs are being represented by legitimate songpluggers in Nashville? Kim Copeland does...
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6 Tips For Using A Song Critique Service
Feedback Is Critical To Growing Why a service in addition to your peers? Industry professionals staff legitimate services. It...
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Song Plugging: What Is It?
There’s a great overview of song plugging and song pluggers on BloggingMuses.com entitled “The Five Key Steps to Song...
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6 Songwriting Apps For iPhone®
Updated March 9, 2014 Handheld recorders . . . handy – yes – always practical – no. They’re getting more...
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