I know that many of you don’t really care about what I am going to write in this post but some of you will and maybe it will help you in some way. At any rate, I warned you that I was going to write about some studio stuff since I am knee deep in it […]
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When musicians ask me for advice about marketing their music, I usually start with the same questions. 1) Are you on CDBaby? 2) Are you on Pandora? The reason I ask these questions is because of how music distribution works these days. We all know that selling physical CDs is largely a thing of the past. I […]
There is a joke in Nashville that people are going to start turning studios into houses. This of course is considered funny because it seems like every other house in Nashville either is a studio or has a studio in the basement. Even on the famed Music Row in Nashville, many of the studios are former […]
I am flying home at the moment from Los Angeles after spending some time at NAMM, a enormous music industry show, and my friends with Whisperings, a group of concert pianists and recording artists. Here are some thoughts I came away with. NAMM encompasses 1.5 million square feet of every music product you can imagine […]
According to one of my online critics, I am not an arranger; I am apparently a deranger. I have been around the absurdities of the bickering that goes on in church music for a long time and thought I had heard it all but I have to say I have never heard that one. It […]
All around where I live, it has become customary to host weekend outdoor concerts in the town centers. I enjoy going to them from time to time because it is often a great atmosphere. Nine times out ten, the music is provided by a cover band. A cover band is a group of semi-pro musicians […]
A discussion popped up somewhere regarding my recent article about buying pianos for a church. Someone asked whether it makes sense for a church to just buy a keyboard rather than an expensive piano. Today, I want to talk about that. I am a pianist. I love great pianos. I will take a great piano […]
I spent yesterday looking at pianos–12 hours of looking in fact. Here in Atlanta, we have lots of dealers and we hit them all. The brands we played were Schimmel, Kawai (including their elite line Shigero), Steinway, Boston, Yamaha, Bosendorfer, Seiler, and Estonia. We played a lot of the cheaper brands too (Baldwin, Hailun, Knabe, […]
The topic of weddings has been coming up a lot lately and I want to write about musician wedding pay today. I did an informal survey over the weekend on my Facebook page as to what musicians were getting paid and the results sort of surprised me. There were a lot of musicians getting paid […]
Recording music is a huge investment of time and money and very often, it is an investment that ends badly for musicians. Less than 5% of all CDs produced sell at least 1,000 copies so that means that more than 95% of all CDs produced ending up losing money. Many people want to record because […]
I have written here and there about the Kickstarter phenomenon before but never in length. I have to admit that the underlying philosophy bothers me a bit and I actually think it may do musicians far more harm than good. So I want to take a post and explain why. Here is a quick background […]