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Public Servants Arlene Goldbard raises some compelling ideas about how artists can help the economic recovery. Arlene, a writer and a social activist suggests that in order to help spark the recovery of the economy we have to recovery culturally, and who better to help us do that than the most creative ones in our society, the artists. She reasons that government initiates that put artists and musicians gifts at the service of schools, communities, hospitals and prisons are a good investment that worked in the 1950's to spurn recovery. Follow the link to check out the video, and if these are ideas that you support then there is a petition to support Art & The Public Purpose: A New Framework in the comments.

These two thoughts are key. Ever thought of display your live show schedule with Google Calendar. Help fans find your gig venues with Google Maps.

Mastering proffesional Adrian Carr of ACMastering recently posted a good article explaining mastering in fairly simple terms for those who are still convinced that "mixing and mastering" is one word. One thing that really helped me to understand mastering back when it was a big question-mark to me, was the differences in the files types each technique used. When mastering a song your are working off of the final exported two-track (that Wav or Aiff file all your hard work went into), whil with mixing you are working with each individual track that you laid individually during your recording, at this point your song is probably still sitting on some virtual sequencer like cubase, garage band or protools. I dunno, it helped me understand it a little more.

Forget the Record Deal, What about the Publishing Deal. While labels are understandably trying to mitigate their risk, by targeting artists who are already as "developed" as possible, it seems that publishers have taken on greater roles as nurturers of talent. Taylor Swift go her start by honing her songwriting abilities under the guidance of Arthur Buenahora at Songy/ATV Music publishing. Keri Hilson speaks about having first developed as a songwriter with Universal Music Publishing, and how that experience helped her launch her solo career with Interscope Records. HERE is a full interview with Eric Beale, who began his tenure in the industry as a songwriter, writing songs for the Jacksons and Diana Ross. Hopefully this interview gives you some further insight into the world of publishing and some hints on how you can either get into the publishing business as a working artist or as a career, helping other artists hone their skills!

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Learning musical notes in a flash. As musicians have we put much thought about the ways in which we will pass down or knowledge of music to our children? It always surprises me when i look at a piece of music and realize that this is a language that not everybody knows how to speak. There are many acronyms and mnemonics that help facilitate the learning of an instrument but they don't encourage the instant note recognition that flash cards do. Try out these simple flash card naming and timing games with your little ones and you just might find your musical skills increase as a result.

Learn from the best music video directors and interact with musicians who need and appreciate your talent as much as you need and appreciate theirs. Share your work with the fans and let them help you to become the next big music video director working with some of the biggest names in the music business.

A4A is the only site you will ever need for the promotion of artists and their work, whether you're an indie musician or the next Stanley Kubric. We help you to build a fan base that is both loyal and passionate about your work and then the promotion is a matter of sharing your video with your built-in fan base who will in turn share it with their social networks.

Here's an interesting flow chart that you can use to help use to answer the questions you might ask yourself during practice.

Came across this article that will definitely increase successful placements. I particularly like the points of saving money with a home studio, building a library, and finding a song writing partner to help compensate for any weaknesses, that you may have.

AOT (Artists On Twitter) helps people connect, like bands and artists, technologists and music entrepreneurs.

If you ever had a project that required sound effects, you could either wait for it to start raining or your baby to start crying and then whip out your tape recorder. Or you can visit Songle. Songle is a massive database of sound effects, that you can use to help give your song writing projects that little bit of extra.

The Music Power Network (MPN), which is the brainchild of Dave Kusek, (Some big instructor at Berklee) credited for being an all-around future music business expert, is coming to a YouTube Channel new you! The MPN will be making some of its educational videos accessible for free to help you achieve success in this ever changing industry. Subscribe to the network if online music business lessons and advice are your forte. Also be sure to check out the songplacements youtube channel, send us links to your songs and we'll add them to our playlists for others to see.

As more musicians become producers with the help of their oh so advanced audio software sound quality is actually steadily improving with each update to pro-tools. Pro-tools or no Pro-tools did you know that there is no real correlation between audio quality and music sales. At least this is what this chart is supposed to prove.

I've been hearing some chatter recently about underground music going the way of the "black guy mohawk"-out the door. one definition of Underground music is music that refers to a variety of post-1960s rock, pop, or dance subgenres that developed a cult following despite their lack of mainstream. Even though music can't hide from the internet I still believe that because of the pressures put on todays bloggers and DJs to "play for pay" or "go where the money is" that underground music can still live and thrive and evolve on the internet. Hopefully we can help increase the underground network by strengthening long distance ties between musicians and their fans. Everyone is now the underground musician. Music will go back to its purest form where the main inspiration for doing it is the love and the respect.

I've talked about using iTunes Imixes to help increase exposure to your music, but thats not the end all. Eleetmusic has a couple more ways in which you can subtly get users to recognize your music as talent rather than spam.

Musicscout.com could help your band get discovered. Music scout is an App that has just been released for the android and iPhone market that enables music enthusiasts to express their thoughts and sentiments about the band they're currently watching. Now all you gotta do is convince all of your fans to download the App and give you great rating everywhere you go.

NARAS can do for YOU. If the name NARAS doesn't ring a bell then maybe the GRAMMYS does. NARAS is responsible for the Musics Biggest Night, but the organization is also noteable for helping members receive additional benefits such as networking and exclusive behind the scenes opportunities as well. Read More to find out how becoming a NARAS member has it's perks. Oh yeah the membership is only 100 dollars, that's pretty good!

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Congratulations go out to Songplacement member Julianna Raye who has been nominated for best concept album at the independent music awards. Hit the jump to cast your vote for her and help support independent music!