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Meredith Music Publications

Written by a career vocalist, this valuable blueprint provides aspiring singers with professional insight and practical steps for building a top-notch, profitable singing career. Enlightening anecdotes, encouraging pep talks, veterans' words of wisdom, and tricks of the trade that only the pros know guide the contemporary vocalist through the mental, technical, and physical challenges of achieving excellence in today's music business. Topics include defining your goals; finding your unique voice for the stage; performance anxiety; building a complementary repertoire; shining at auditions and booking gigs; creating a signature look; fine-tuning your act; maximizing self-promotion efforts; the anatomy of successful gigs; and the career vocalist's inventory.

The Contemporary Singer's Blueprint

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Hal Leonard Corporation

Industry veteran and chair of NYU's Clive Davis Recorded Music program Jeffrey Rabhan explains career options within - and connected to - today's music business through the experiences of some of the industry's top DJs, educators, engineers, executives, journalists, managers, music supervisors, producers, promoters, publicists, publishers, and technicians. Â Starting from his own experience helping to guide the careers of such artists as Kelly Clarkson, Lil' Kim, Michelle Branch, DMX and Jermaine Dupri, Rabhan outlines the essentials of today's business while looking into the future. Â Conducting dozens of exclusive interviews, he draws unique insights from the people currently in the business, who detail their own paths to success and offer career and educational advice specifically targeted at young people. Rabhan starts with an overview of various categories in the industry, then details all of the jobs within that category, from entry level to top executive Â The DVD includes audio and video footage of the author and additional interviews. Â Paperback, 246 p. with DVD.

Cool Jobs in the Music Business

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This compilation offers practical tips on: The Right Plan for Increasing Revenue; Going Where Your Competition Is Not; Speaking the Customer's Language; No More Slow Days; Getting Your Name Out There; The Human Side of Selling and How to Act Big, Even If You're Small. Â Hardcover, 232 p.

Marketing Beyond Your Front Door

What happens during a big-time professional recording session can be easily applied to make even the most casual recording session successful. In The Studio Musician's Handbook, best-selling author Bobby Owsinski and in-demand studio bassist Paul Ill reveal the inner workings of a major Hollywood recording session, including a look at the players themselves. You'll learn:; How you become a studio musician; Who hires you and how much you get paid; What kind of skills you need and what gear you must have; Proper session etiquette; How to apply these skills in every type of recording session Plus the authors have created individual session musician guides for guitar, bass, drums, vocals, keys, horns, and strings. Interviews with famous and influential session players are also included. As a bonus, an accompanying DVD takes you inside an actual record date in a world-class studio with world-class players.

Studio Musicians Handbook

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In the music business, the key to success lies in knowing how to protect yourself. Â Whether you are a performer, writer or executive, Passman's comprehensive guide to the legal and financial aspects of the music world is an indispensable tool. Â You'll learn how to: select and hire a winning team of advisors; master the big picture and the finer points of record deals; navigate the ins and outs of songwriting, music publishing and copyrights; and maximize concert, touring and merchandising deals. Â This sixth edition also includes information on: music downloads, webcasting, streaming-on-demand and podcasting; new video streaming services; how royalties are computed in the digital age; the latest developments in deals with independent labels, including upstream deals; updates on all the traditional industry matters, such as royalties, advances, video budgets, and copyright law. Â Hardcover, 440 p.

All You Need to Know About the Music Business

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If These Halls Could Talk - A Historical Tour Through San Francisco Recording Studios takes an in-depth look at San Francisco's colorful and diverse music and music recording history, covering both the recordings and recording studios that housed the jazz and blues of the '50s and psychedelic rock of the '60s, to the rock and funk of the '70s, punk and new wave of the '80s, and the alternative rock, R&amp;B and hip-hop of the '90s through today. Leading Bay Area artists, producers, engineers, and studio owners take readers on a guided tour through some of San Francisco's top recording studios, venturing behind the scenes of some of popular music's hottest albums.

If These Halls Could Talk

Alfred Music Publishing

Finally, we have a book written by a successful and experienced female guitarist on how to work in the male-dominated music business. How to Succeed As a Female Guitarist will guide you through the challenges and rewards that await you on the path to following your dreams. You will gain insightful tips and information about business, gear, performance, and interpersonal relations?as well as important music lessons and exercises to improve your chord playing, songwriting, soloing, and general musicianship. This book is an essential read if you are a female musician and want to make a living doing what you love. The CD includes audio examples of all the music lessons in the book.

How to Succeed as a Female Guitarist

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Berklee Press

Essential for anyone interested in the business, process and procedures of writing music for film or television, this book teaches the Berklee approach to the art. Â Covers topics such as: preparing and recording a score, contracts and fees, publishing, royalties, copyrights and much more. Â Features interviews with 21 top film-scoring professionals, including Michael Kamen, Alf Clausen, Alan Silvestri, Marc Shaiman, Mark Snow, Harry Gregson-Williams and Elmer Bernstein. Â Now updated with info on today's latest technology, and invaluable insights into finding work in the industry. Â Paperback, 416 p.

Complete Guide to Film Scoring

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"The Future of the Music Business" provides a legal and business road map for success in today's music business by setting forth a comprehensive summary of the rules pertaining to the traditional music business, including music licensing, as well as the laws governing online distribution of music and video. Â The accompanying DVD includes a comprehensive lecture, "How to Succeed in Today's Music Business," delivered by the author at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Â Paperback, 350 p. with DVD.

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Today's music business is clearly not like it was in its peak years of the 1980s. The never-ending flow of new digital technology combined with Internet-based marketing and distribution have forever altered the playing field. These changes have created a new wave of independence that has led to opportunities for artists to have much more control over their careers. Gregory J. Gordon (CEO &amp; Founder of Pyramind), along with Tess Taylor (President &amp; Founder of The National Association of Recording Industry Professionals), Steffen Franz (President &amp; Founder of The Independent Distribution Collective), and Paul Terry (President of Paul Terry And Associates, Management &amp; Entrepreneurial Training for Social Enterprise) join forces to present a compelling and thought-provoking guide to the entrepreneurial nature of the music business. This is the third book in The Pyramind Training Series, and it's accompanied by a DVD that contains a discussion with Steffen Franz and Gregory J. Gordon and supporting documentation for independent artists seeking to build their plan for success. Paperback, 235 p. with DVD.

Welcome to the Music Business

This deluxe publication combines various techniques from top representatives in the record business and creates a precise technology for negotiating recording contracts. Â Using a hierarchy of deals points, the book outlines specific strategies for protecting assets in numerous scenarios, including specific contracts for first-time artists, songwriters, and established artists. Â This spiral bound volume and slipcase package is geared to the day-to-day demands of active professionals in the music and recording business. Â Spiral bound book.

Advanced Recording Contract Negotiations for Music Industry Professionals

This book realistically prepares a singer for life in the world of professional music. Author Gloria Rusch gives candid advice on topics including: getting started, finding a vocal coach, defining one's voice, learning correct breathing, conquering stage fright, microphone techniques, connecting with an audience, common vocal ailments, recording studio pointers, finding a band, landing a record deal, and much more. The book includes extensive interviews with Kevon Edmonds of the group After 7, stage and television producer Ken Kragen, Janis Siegel of Manhattan Transfer, multi-platinum songwriter Andy Goldmark, and other knowledgeable session singers, sound engineers, and arrangers. 212 pages, 9 x 12  216 p.

Professional Singers Handbook

This book reveals the secrets to becoming a music producer and producing just about any kind of project in any genre of music. Among the topics covered are the producer's multiple responsibilities and all the elements involved in a typical production, including budgeting, contracts, selecting the studio and engineer, hiring session musicians, and even getting paid. Unlike other books on production, The Music Producer's Handbook also covers the true mechanics of production, from analyzing, troubleshooting, and fixing a song that isn't working to getting the best performance and sound out of a band or vocalist. In addition, Bobby Owsinski tackles what may be the toughest part of being a producer - being a diplomat, a confidant, and an amateur psychologist all at once.

The Music Producer's Handbook

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Mixerman interweaves a wild and entertaining adventure with his off-color social commentary on a dying industry in a rapidly changing world – a world in which the Internet fails to stave the economic divide, independent musicians have no shot at a living wage, all because Big Tech controls the commerce of music at all levels. As Mixerman puts it, "We are currently witnessing the greatest heist in the annals of the Music Business, and that's saying something given its history." Hardcover, 304 p.

Mixerman and the Billionheir Apparent

How to Have Your Hit Song Published

This amazing compilation features 600 quotations from esteemed musicians and artists who have taken a moment to reflect on their influences, heroes, integrity, performances, and so much more. Â These gems of hard-won wisdom cover not only the highs of success, money, and fame, but also frankly reveal the lows of missteps and rejection. Â Paper, 192 p.

Music Smarts

Whether you are the publisher, label, studio, producer, engineer, or artist, The Music Business Contract Library contains over 125 different contract templates and forms that you need, along with Greg's professional experience commentary on how he has used them and why. This massive library comes with online media, which delivers over 125 forms in fully editable Microsoft Word format for use in your own business. Paperback book, 212 p.

The Music Business Contract Library

Paperback Book with Online Audio Access

This is the resource for creating truly inspired arrangements! Full of tips and tricks covering techniques for building digital arrangements in a variety of styles, including country, gospel, pop, jazz, rock, Latin and more.Teaches basic MIDI, sequencing, production concepts, and arranging techniques for a variety of digital instrument sounds. Make your MIDI sequences and grooves come alive! �Also includes a General MIDI disk with more than 50 sequenced samples, helpful definitions, and more.

Arranging in the Digital World

If you are a musician, you need this book, which is rooted in real-life music business experience, not classroom theory. It reveals the secrets of artist development using the creative process as the foundation for success, and provides solid direction for you to plan and evaluate your path to success. Hot Hits, Cheap Demos shows you how to: jumpstart your career, create a press kit and develop sure-fire marketing strategies, contact clubs and alternative venues, produce and promote your own shows, make an eye-catching web site, create a standout song, find a producer, and even package a CD. Written by Nadine Condon, a 20-year music industry veteran who's been instrumental in the success of such acts as Smash Mouth, Stroke 9, Third Eye Blind and Train.  180 p.

Hot Hits Cheap Demos

Unlock the secrets to becoming a successful mobile DJ with the "Mobile DJ Handbook." Authored by S. Zemon, this guide dives deep into the essentials of the music business, providing expert strategies, tips, and insights that will elevate your DJing career to new heights. Essential reading for aspiring DJs! - Note: This music is composed by humans. No human-written product description is available, limiting search visibility. The AI-assisted description is for reference only.

Mobile Dj Handbook

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