Good Books About Music Bussines?, ... |
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Sep 4 2010, 10:21 PM
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Don't think I've come across any specific books Vasilije apart from the odd biography - sorry. I'll see if I can find some for you though.
Most of the promo marketing info etc I tend to get comes from other music industry professional whom I know personally (and a lot of that is just gossip) and trade sources like Music Industry Weekly. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Sep 5 2010, 12:11 AM
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Vasilije, I don't know any books offhand but this site has a large range of articles (not all useful) laid out logically and can point you in the right direction. I think music is still very much a relationships business.
http://www.starpolish.com/advice/ -------------------- |
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Sep 5 2010, 01:25 PM
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Vasilije, I'll PM you.
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Sep 5 2010, 01:28 PM
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I've come across them once before indirectly (know someone who used them) and there are other similar companies on the Net. AFAIK the success rate of these sorts of A&R Brokers isn't great and of all the musicians I've worked with who have recording deals not one used a service like this. Also of all the record label A&R that I know none view a service like this as in any way better or more likely for them to listen to your stuff as opposed to another unsigned musician.
TBH from what I'm told what gets you noticed with A&R is: 1/ A large following and media 'buzz' about you. You can either try for this the traditional way by gigging, releasing your own stuff as an indie and building up a fan base or via Internet social networking again to build a fan base. 2/ Media celebrity - all publicity is good news and if you get A&R to recognise your name because you've had some publicity it will help. 3/ Different demo - 99.9999% of demos to A&R look and feel the same. If you want to get noticed yours needs to stand out. Do something different. I know someone who sent a rubber foot attached to their cd with the message 'Now that I've got a foot in the door please listen to my music.' It worked. 4/ Excellent demo - big label A&R often spend only 10 or so seconds listening to a demo before deciding to either bin it or listen some more. If your demo isn't excellent in terms of music, playing, recording and mastering then there is a very strong chance that it will get binned. An A&R broker like taxi here isn't likely to do anything special to get A&R's attention - they probably just mass mailshot to everyone in the Industry contacts guide. People who might have got a deal and who used a Broker almost certainly also did 1 and/or 2 and/or 3 and/or 4 above themselves and probably would have got a deal without the Broker anyway. Just my opinion though. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Sep 9 2010, 11:56 AM
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I've asked around a bit now and a few books that have been suggested are:
"The Craft and Business of Songwriting" by John Braheny and "All You Need to Know About the Music Business", by Donald Passman. I also had a chat with someone I know who's pretty high up in A&R at Warner Bros. He repeated the 4 things that I said above but he also added that it helps to have professional representation that is specific to you. Specific here rules out Taxi and similar and really means either a good manager, producer, music industry lawyer, or publisher that works directly for you and on your behalf and who has good personal contacts in the industry and a track record. To use the old cliche it's who you know that often gets A&R to even listen to your stuff in the first place. As he put it, A&R recieve something like a 1000+ (thousand) cds etc from unsigned hopefuls every week. If you have personal representation from someone they know and trust who advocates that they listen to your stuff then they are much more likely to. They (A&R) also receive 100s of twitter texts, pushes from Facebook/Youtube and other social networking sites everyday telling them to 'check me out I've got X no. of fans'. Too often they don't have the time and those sorts of contacts are viewed in the industry as unprofessional and rude. You need a buzz but that doesn't mean you have to ram the message down A&R's throat; if you really have a buzz then they'll find out and come to you. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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