Musician Pro

I have written in the past that there is much that musicians can learn from authors and the counterpoint is also true. In the current DIY trend where you can make and manage your own career, more musicians, writers, and artists are finding audiences for their work. The principles mentioned here are valuable for writers as well as musicians. After...

CONTENT The trick is not to become just a writer/musician, but STAY a writer/musician. That requires work. One of my writer friends said that in order to succeed in any independent endeavor whether it’s being a recording artist or an author is that you must have content. Whether its song samples, short stories, ebooks, or e-albums, you need to...

The University of Bristol writes that they have the formula for composing a hit song and can use science to do it. As a musician, that’s not really that impressive and is that what we really want to do? Music is organized patterns of sounds and silence that uses chords and structure that have been developed for centuries. Computer programming and...

I had the opportunity to attend a writer’s workshop featuring a new author “East of Adonia” along with one of her publishers from Zova Books. You may be wondering why this has anything do with music publishing or songwriting.  I will get to that just keep reading. After the workshop, the publisher and I began a dialogue about the changing d...

Referencing a recent article at CDBaby’s DIY MUSICIAN (dated January 06), Jon Simson (SoundExchange ) wrote about a recent study which showed that Americans think musicians should have second jobs to support themselves. That means that Americans don’t think music is a “real job.” Simson went on to say that, “[Musicians] should not ex...