The Renegade Producer Blog
The Renegade Producer Blog below is dedicated to you, the independent music artist.
Here you find the latest site updates, random music production and business tips, ideas, videos and other interesting tidbits.
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11 Music Production Tips For Newbies
Discover 11 music production tips you'll want to hear sooner rather than later...
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Mixing Your Own Music
Discover 4 Tools You Can Use To Position Sounds When Mixing Your Own Music
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Renegade Randoms:
Renegade Randoms are little bloglets in which I gather and post the articles and resources you may find useful.
Article Randoms...
Creating a Budget for Your New Album by Cameron Mizell.
A well-written and presented guide to album budgeting. Includes hidden expenses you may not consider and plan for when you launch for the first time. Top quality article.
10 Ways to Supercharge your Music Sync Strategy by Nick Fitzsimons.
Music synchronization deals present you with viable opportunities to create income, potentially passive, from your music. You'll discover the sync strategy well summarized in the above article. Excellent read!
Resource Randoms...
Flavors.me allows you to pull together your music web presence into one dynamic website using for $20 a year.
And lastly, you'll find a great expanded list of music licensing companies here .
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Music Industry Articles for Renegades
Read music industry articles by various authors...
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David Byrne - Interesting TED Talk
You may enjoy this great talk in which David Byrne looks at the way we make music to suit the environments in which the music will be played.
The idea, while common sense when you think about it, has some interesting implications for how we make music.
Check it out...
Lefsetz on The Long Haul...
I was checking out some tweets while bouncing down a synth track when I came across this great post by Bob Lefsetz.
The post contains some excellent suggestions for musicians in the new music business. The two closing paragraphs sum it up nicely methinks...
"We're never going back to the sales figures of yore. Not because of theft' but because no one can get that kind of mindshare.
But you can get some traction. If you're willing to work really hard, continuously, always leading with your music." Bob Lefsetz
Click the link below now to read the full post. It's packed full of nutritious music business advice! ;-)
All the best,
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Home Studio Setup: Great Beginner's Guide
I've just come across an excellent free e-book for those who are just starting out with their own home recording studio setup.
It's called "Killer Home Recording: Setting Up" by Brandon Drury.
This e-book is the first in the "Killer Home Recording" series he's selling which looks very enticing.
The quality of the free e-book has got me eager to buy the course to check it out.
I sense a review coming. Watch this space! ;-)
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Basic Home Recording Studio Guide
Music production at home is a viable choice with today's music technology. Start your home recording studio planning here, and then build the music lab of your dreams...
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The Renegade Report - New issue!
Just a quick reminder to watch out for a new issue of The Renegade Report tomorrow at 1pm EST.
Sign up here now if you haven't done so yet.
All the best,
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Twitter Lists for Musicians and Music Business People...
Do you want to follow musicians or music business
Just follow the two links below and click on the "Follow this list" button...
Music Business Tweeps Twitter List
Musicians Who Tweet Twitter List
So, there you have it! Hundreds of musicians and music business people at your fingertips.
All the best,
Find Music Business Seminars In Your Area...
This page contains 6 ways for you to find music business seminars and conventions in your local area or field of speciality.
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Music Notation Software Suggestions
Discover some great music notation software for writing, composing and arranging music using music notation.
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Digital Music Distribution: Tunecore Releases New Products...
You can now upload unlimited songs to all 19 online stores for $46.99.
Alternatively, you can upload a single to all 19 stores for $9.99.
You'll find more information on the Tunecore site...
Get Your Music on iTunes for as Low as $9.99 at TuneCore
They've also added ringtone distribution which may be worth your while to look into...
Get Your Ringtone in the iPhone Ringtone Store with Tune Core
All the best,
Disclosure: This site gets a small commission when you purchase through the above links because of affiliation with Tunecore. Thank you in advance for your support!
Internet Music Sites for Artists and Bands
The artists sign-up pages for Internet music sites you can distribute and promote your music on.
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Record Label Distribution - Do you need it?
Independent music artists don't need traditional record label distribution when they have the web...
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Web Music Video Distribution for Independent Artists
Find out why you need online music video distribution as an independent music artist, and also discover a great video distribution service you can use...
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Metrics and Tools to Measure Your Music ROI
Dexter Bryant Jr. provides musicians with 38 metrics and 7 tools to measure your music business return on investment.
Musician Income Streams List
David Sherbow posted an excellent reference list of potential income streams for musicians .
Eno on Selling Records
Music-business thoughts: Brian Eno on records and blubber .
Win a Cyber PR Campaign!
How would you like to win a PR campaign worth $1,595 from Cyber PR?
The charming Ariel Hyatt sent me an e-mail this morning in which she announced a new contest for music artists.
Here's how it works...
1. Read the Music Success in Nine Weeks e-book. Please purchase the e-book via my affiliate link here as this means I can get a small share of the sale for recommending it.
2. Send an e-mail to ariel@arielpublicity.com with a link to your Blog. Use "MSi9W Blogging Contest Entry" as your subject line.
3. Start with week one in the e-book and Blog about it as you go through the process in the e-book. You need to create 9 entries, in other words, one for each of the 9 weeks in the e-book. You can use Facebook, MySpace or Blogger if you don't have a Blog.
4. CyberPR staff will judge the entries and the artist who learns the most and advances the most will win a full Headliner Cyber PR campaign from CyberPR, worth $1,595. The campaign will get your music to bloggers, podcasters and radio DJs. It will also help you organize your social media presence.
*Judging Starts TODAY* *Judging closes March 10, 2010*
You'll find my honest review of Music Success in Nine Weeks here should you want more information about the e-book before you buy.
You can read the announcement from Cyber PR here for full details.
Thank you in advance for using my affiliate link to purchase the e-book!
I wish you all the best for the contest. Now, make some history Renegade!
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Webhosting Musts for Musicians & Bands
A few tips that may help you in your quest to find a reliable, affordable webhost. Take any hosting recommendations you get with a pinch of salt
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Band and Musician Web Hosting
Discover the 3 possible routes you can take to get band or musician web hosting for your site.
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Band and Musician Website Design Tips
A great little introduction to band and musician website design. Read this page before you start your own music artist website.
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The Renegade Internet Music Sales, Marketing and Promotion Guide
Free Internet music sales, distribution, marketing and promotion guide for the independent music artist.
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Internet Marketing For Musicians
What the humble Spider can teach you about internet marketing for musicians - Observe...
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The New Web Music Business
4 key ideas to help your independent web music business advance.
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Every Musician Needs a Website
Discover why every good musician needs a website right now.
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Is your music web presence holding you back?
Discover all you must know and do to create a solid music web presence in this e-book...
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Sell Music on iTunes
Discover how to sell music on iTunes via an online music distribution company...
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Get Your Music on iTunes - 30% Discount for Tunecore!
30% discount off your first upload with Tunecore. Offer extended only until end of December...
In a recent article I showed you how you can sell your music on iTunes and other online marketplaces with Tunecore.
I can now, due to my affiliation with Tunecore, offer you a 30% discount when you use the the coupon code beheard30 via the link below...
Visit the Tunecore discount page.
Sign up for The Renegade Report should you want to be updated when I add new discount coupons and offers to the web site.
Update: This offer has been extended until the end of December 2009. If you want to get your songs on iTunes then now is a good time to do it.
Please use the link on this page should you sign up as this site gets a small commission for the recommendation. Thank you!
Two Good Music Distribution Companies
Discover music distribution companies and the services they offer you as an independent artist.
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Contacting Music Bloggers
A few pointers on the new music PR and contacting music bloggers to write about you...
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Twitter Introduction
Find out why I'm on Twitter and what I tweet about...
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Music Business Newsletter: The Renegade Report
The music business newsletter for independent music artists and producers. Strategies, tips and ideas for your music-business-life.
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Help the Musicians Helper
Ways you can contribute to this web site and help a musicians helper on a mission.
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Your Music Business HQ
Music business articles, resources and tools for independent music artists and producers.
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