How to Improve Your Vocal Tracks
With GarageBand and decent built-in microphones coming stock, it seems like the music world is opening up to everyone with an instrument or a voice. This new wave of potential…
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How One Button Changed How We Listen to Music
Music has changed in countless ways in the last few hundred years — instruments have evolved, recording and playing have gone from analog to digital, and the industry that sells…
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Write, Move, Play: Creative Ways to Escape a Songwriting Rut
For musicians and songwriters, every day has a different result. Monday might feature the best performances and the best songwriting you have ever done, while Tuesday might just be the…
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Interview: PAPA’s Darren Weiss and Danny Presant — Exclusive
For most of us, playing a sold out show to thousands of fans singing along to your songs is nothing more than a lifelong pipe dream. It's a delightful daily…
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5 Tips for Friday: Studio vs Natural Light, Non-Traditional Scrapbooking
Before we send you off for a long weekend, we wanted to make sure you had plenty of stuff to look at. Over on our CreativeLive’s YouTube channel, we've got videos…
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Why You Can’t Get That Song Out of Your Head: A Scientific Analysis
If you have ever found yourself humming or singing a song hours after you heard it, you’re not alone. In fact, you're just like everyone else in the world. Between…
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Yes, You Can: How Real Musicians Are Making Music for A Living
The Seattle Office of Film+Music released this infographic last summer, but we liked it a lot and wanted to share it again to help dispel the myth that creative jobs…
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Six Mistakes Bands Make When Booking Shows
Last week, we covered what to do to land a local gig. Today, we'll explore exactly what not to do when booking a show anywhere... like indulging in too many…
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Pleasure Chemistry: How Our Brains Process Music
Why does music bring us pleasure? Well, the simple answer is that it changes our brain chemistry… literally. Music triggers the parts of our brain associated with reward, motivation, and…
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Pinpoint Your Fans and Plan the Perfect Tour
No one wants to play a show for a listless, ungrateful crowd. A room full of fans is a much more gratifying and lucrative experience. But it usually takes a…
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