Serious Music

Music industry is full of legends, myths and fables. If it’s a discovery for you, then you just try to revel in music products without deep penetration into the things. Practically all beginners in music industry feel the influence of those legends on their shoulders at least once in a while. Concocted biographies, lies about private life, fabricated music tours, and the list can be prolonged till impossibility. Such situation touches upon live concert artists as well, especially those ones who only start their career.

When preparing for the live show, novices in music industry might be led astray by various myths. The first myth is that promotion campaign nowadays is conducted exclusively in social media. Being the most popular Internet option, social media sites serve a good platform for managing business as well as promoting live shows. This is definitely not true. Of course, social media plays a vital role in promoting products and events, but they are not the only way to advertise yourself. Therefore, if you promoter does nothing but making advertisements in social media, most probably your live show will not get the desirable amount of visitors.

The second myth is connected with payment for the show. Nowadays music industry is a commercial project, allowing hundreds or thousands people make profit on music, artists and bands. Rather often, you will be asked to pay for the show in order to be able to rent some space and adjust the instruments and decorations for the show. Concert halls and clubs owners just need to ensure that the spent resources will be reimbursed. However, sometimes owners allow live shows free of charge in order to draw the clientele to their public places. Read more…

When you create a song you never know whether it will become a success of a failure. In any case, your major desire is to bring your thoughts and feelings to the targeted audience. With this consideration, it’s necessary to make the song recognizable and this is achieved via media sources like radio, TV and the Internet. This is all good but the recognition is not the mere thing which should bother you: song licensing must come to the limelight when it touches upon promotion. Indeed, there are too many cases of thefts in music industry and song licensing saves you from any unfavorable issues.

Song licensing as any other activity done in music industry requires both time and money. Time is needed for you and specialists in music industry to estimate the song and put it under copyright law. Copyright law ensures that any invention (in our case a song, music or lyrics) is protected from stealing or abuse by unauthorized parties; it protects the rights of the inventor and ensures that all income generated from this item goes to its owner.

There are many companies which make business on licensing. Their sphere of expertise includes not only licensing, but also giving the song much exposure. Licensing ascertains that the composition is given the appropriate exposure, is protected by the copyright regulations, and is saved from theft or rehashing. Licensing companies give way to the composition as far as the majority of reputable radio, TV and Internet sources will not advertise the composition if it’s not licensed. Read more…

The music world has been dumbfounded when the death of Amy Winehouse was proclaimed last summer. Of course, deaths among celebrities happen with natural regularity as they are human-beings. However, this tragedy became a real sensation because of the other reason. Any Winehouse was 27 and she replenished the ranks of all those outstanding musician and singers who left this world exactly at that age. There is even a notion ascribed to death of musicians at 27 and it’s called ‘Curse of 27’.

‘Curse of 27’ is the generic name of all lethal cases in the music industry which touched only people of 27. There are many theories about why celebrities join the majority precisely at this time, not other. The most widespread viewpoint concerning this issue is that musicians who achieved the heights in their industry till this age outlive major psychological problems and crisis which lead to the intentional or accidental death.

The other generally accepted outlook on ‘Curse of 27’ syndrome is that those people suffered from psychological trauma revealed already in early childhood: home violence, abuse, disdain, and misunderstanding in early years might lead to the personality destruction in future. And, certainly, alcohol, drugs or pills abuse stand in the limelight of that destruction. Read more…

The majority of people understand the notion ‘contemporary music’ as the style in which signers create and introduce their songs. Thus, music is inevitably associated with the creation and production of songs. No matter what type of music (songs) you like, sometimes you feel the necessity to look through or learn the lyrics of a particular song. Rather frequently you might hear the song and like it so much that would do anything only to scan the lyrics of it to sing along. This becomes especially vital when it comes to the lyrics written in foreign language.

Nowadays it’s not difficult to find the lyrics to any song you wish as there are a lot of Internet sources serving the needs of music fans. The simplicity of searching for the needed song lyrics is vindicated by the number of online requests for such servicing. Those requests go in various forms: people either type the sentence fragments, separate words they could recognize by ear, or write the name of the song or the singer who performs it. Read more…