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Choosing the Right Equipment
Choosing the right equipment and understanding the nuances of recording is the difference between someone listening to your song or pressing skip after the intro. ... -
Expert Advice: Creating a Record Label, the Artist’s Way
Artistry is all about making choices. As a DJ and music producer, I make choices every time I sit down to create a track. I ... -
50 Best Career Tips of 2021
1. “You need to create for yourself––know what you want or who you are––and that takes a lot of time to figure out in life.” ... -
Artist to Artist: Collaboration-We Need Each Other
Our society likes to promote a certain denial. Independence is seen as a noble badge of honor. The jack-of-all-trades, unless they’re a master of none, ... -
Artist to Artist: In Praise of Crossover
In Praise of Crossover Crossover can get a bad rap. Some of it is deserved. It’s easy to think of profit-motivated crossover albums that ended ... -
Expert Advice: Reopening Events After the Pandemic
Gathering in groups to enjoy entertaining events is part of our natural inclination to be around others, reveling in what we love. Whatever the events ... -
The Black Notes: A Beginners Guide to Musical Flight
The Black Notes: A Beginners Guide to Musical Flight Based on the book Amplified: Unleash Your Potential Through the Power of Music A dear friend ... -
Tip Jar: The Best 5 Tips When Launching a New Music Single
I've been asked to do several “expert advice” articles in the past few months. This time around nothing immediately jumped out of my brain. After ... -
Artist to Artist: Rely-Ability
Being rely able––depended upon with full trust or confidence––is an innate ability, something money can’t buy, so not easily calculated financially. Yet this natural, freely ... -
Songwriting's Commercial "Reality"
Being a songwriter today should be easier than it has ever been in the past. You have easier access to affordable instruments, software, samples, DAWS ... -
Artist to Artist: Become an Incredible Collaborator
Whether you call me DawgGoneDavis – my original artist name – or Rebecca DGD, the one I’m working with now, know this: I’m never gonna ... -
Expert Advice: Get a Producer Who Makes Your Songs Count
It is too easy to buy a recording software and record your own music. But is it any good? Have you learned production from a ... -
Artist to Artist: Don't Play It Safe
People feel and express their emotions the most in times of extreme joy and sorrow. It’s no surprise that most artists are the same, writing ... -
A Post-Production Primer: Mixing & Mastering
Having engineered at some of the top music studios in New York City, New Jersey, Miami, and Atlanta, and currently the head of Artist Development, ... -
Artist to Artist: Speak the Language of Music
I am fortunate to have held a place in the Top 10 on the World Indie Charts with my single “Hug A Million Times” this ... -
Expert Advice: 7 Website Tips for Musicians
Want to book more shows, land more clients, and gain the trust of your fans? Then you need an official music website. A website puts ... -
Artist to Artist: Got to Be Authentic
I think every artist obviously has their own method for coming up with a good tune. Everyone has their own inspirations. So on that note ... -
Artist to Artist: Creating for the Bass
The purpose of bass has widely been viewed as one that is quite rigid: to occupy the lower end of a composition, while being the ... -
Artist to Artist: The Power of Investing In Yourself
Even though I’ve been a recording artist for over 30 years now, I’m always aware that people don’t know my history. Hence, I treat every ... -
Expert Advice: Hate Networking?
Good news -- you don’t have to. Here are five career tips from Quadio Media CEO Marcus Welch that will show you the way. When ...
