One of the single most important elements in a great-sounding, professional recording is the performance of the session musicians. There is a reason that the job of the session musician exists.
Songpull.com announces improvements to site, including the creation of six new top-ten charts and the options to comment and vote on videos.
Songpull.com, the premier online songwriter’s community, announced recently several key new features designed to encourage interactivity on the site including new voting and notification options.
Posted videos, and their ability to let intimate performances […]
We are adapting this theory to the Musical realm in a practical way so that we (the artists) can more effectively write music and in turn have the audience recognize, understand, and appreciate our music much more.
As I have mentioned before, I love using Moleskine notebooks for my songwriting. It is a great tool for capturing lyrics and is somewhat inspirational - what with the legendary story behind the notebooks.
The other day when I was at Barnes & Noble I noticed a new Moleskine product called Moleskine “cahiers”. They are thinner […]
I was reading the latest issue (March 2007) of Electronic Musician and the last person I expected to read about - in an electronic magazine - was acoustic singer-songwriter Ari Hest.
In 2005, Ari released his first major-label album on Columbia Records. It was a great album - one that I personally own. From my perspective […]
MikeB of GarageSpin pointed me in the direction of Kompoz, where he accurately describes it as “Apple’s GarageBand audio recording software meets MySpace Band pages, where the social network revolves around song projects.”
How It Works
Anyone can start the foundations of a song, which includes BPM, copyright, etc. After that people can add drums, bass, guitar, […]
The short answer?
You can’t do it.
At the time of this writing (March 2007) you have to open a completely new MySpace account. MySpace used to offer a conversion page to make the switch from a regular account to a musician account, but that is no longer available.
Now you are required to open a completely […]
Say hello to your new “back pocket writing kit”.
So you know I always gush about moleskines, particularly cahiers. You also know my penchant for having a writing utensil and paper at all times via the Blogging Muses series on Capturing Song Ideas.
So imagine my joy when I saw this blog entry on the flat […]
(This article was contributed by Rob Cosh of theHipCola.com and was reprinted with permission.)
It seems to me that many songwriters begin their work with an acoustic guitar. If you’re like me, you’ll probably record most things with acoustic guitar first. I like acoustic guitar because it’s full sounding, has great percussive qualities for banging out […]
Who’s up for a group songwriting project?
Some readers have emailed me songwriting tips, but don’t really want to contribute a whole article to Blogging Muses. So, more than one reader has suggested putting together a repository of songwriting tips from the Blogging Muses readers.
Great idea! So I spent last night putting together a little […]
