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Current digital trends in the music industry could be everything from the way we record the song to the media which we put the song on to and even the way we promote the music. Because of the digital age we live in multimedia is now the norm. The trend is to DIY as opposed to finding a label to scoop you up as in the days of past.

On account of this digital technology available to the consumer, everyone has the tools within reach to record and produce their own album the way they envisioned it from the start. No longer do you have to wait for some fancy studio to allow you in the front door.

After you have recorded your cd baby from your living room couch all while drinking a case of Mountain Dew it’s now time to promote this thing by yourself. Build your own website with digital downloads available with a digital sign-up sheet for your mailing list.

After the site is built go and get some fans through Facebook, Twitter, and even MySpace. Follow this up by submitting your mp3s to all these podcast stations that are excited to receive your indie music.

After you have done all this use that digital phone of yours to keep connected with your fans through apps. After you have your loyal following jazzed up about that new release of yours, start booking your own tour with that powerful little computer in your hand.

Point the venues to your digital website and digital press kit online and try and save a dime by telling them to jump on the latest digital trends in the music industry. Save a tree and go digital. That was so yesterday in regards to an 8×10 glossy and a demo CD. No one sends hard copies anymore? Do they?

After you have booked that tour don’t forget to take advantage of the other cool features on that digital monster you hold to your ear and text all your friends with by taking some cool footage of your road trip and a live performance of your band rocking at the club.

Post all of this on YouTube and tell your story of how you made it famous with all the cool media outlets available to the indie artist these days. Then fire off one more text or tweet or write on your wall and have the fans all download your hot single from iTunes at once so your song soars to the top of iTunes top downloads.

Here is to a new matrix for the independent musician. I am looking forward to seeing a live stream of your next performance through my iPhone.

So you want to watch the latest rap, hip-hop, r&b, pop, dancehall reggae, grime and funky house music videos for free? How about downloading featured videos in mp4 format to watch on your iPod, Blackberry, PC, Mac, mp4 player or mp4-compatible phone? I will show you how.

STEP 1 – Search your favourite search engine for the following keywords…

• “urban videos”
• “free music videos toolbar”
• “grime music videos”

This search should bring up the most popular rap, hip-hop, r&b, dancehall reggae and grime music websites to watch the videos. Once you have visited a website from this list of results, make sure it offers free viewing as well as downloads, then bookmark it in your browser. If the website offers a free music videos toolbar to keep you up to date automatically each time you open your browser, then install that too as it will make it easier to watch the latest videos for free at the touch of a button.

STEP 2 – Play the videos on your iPod, BlackBerry, phone etc…

• locate the downloads area of the website, usually a “downloads” button on the site’s menu
• download your selected video to your hard drive
• if the downloaded music video isn’t in mp4 format, then search your favourite search engine for an “mp4 converter”, install it and convert the video with the following specs: – MP4 (iso mpeg4, NOT avc) – 320 x 240 video dimensions – 500kb/s video bitrate – 128kb/s audio bitrate
• for blackberry, mp4 player or phone: plug your device into your computer using it’s usb cable… locate your mp4 video file on your hard drive, right-click on it and select “copy”… now locate a folder on your device (via the computer) to copy the video to, right-click on the folder and select “paste”. your video is now on your device!
• for ipod/iphone: plug your ipod/iphone into your computer using it’s usb cable… open itunes and go to it’s menu, selecting File > Add file to Library and locate your mp4 video… once the video is in your library, drag it from your library into your ipod’s movies icon. your video is now on your ipod or iphone!

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Today’s practitioners of what we once called “modern” music are finding themselves to be suddenly alone. A bewildering backlash is set against any music making that requires the disciplines and tools of research for its genesis. Stories now circulate that amplify and magnify this troublesome trend. It once was that one could not even approach a major music school in the US unless well prepared to bear the commandments and tenets of serialism. When one hears now of professors shamelessly studying scores of Respighi in order to extract the magic of their mass audience appeal, we know there’s a crisis. This crisis exists in the perceptions of even the most educated musicians. Composers today seem to be hiding from certain difficult truths regarding the creative process. They have abandoned their search for the tools that will help them create really striking and challenging listening experiences. I believe that is because they are confused about many notions in modern music making!

First, let’s examine the attitudes that are needed, but that have been abandoned, for the development of special disciplines in the creation of a lasting modern music. This music that we can and must create provides a crucible in which the magic within our souls is brewed, and it is this that frames the templates that guide our very evolution in creative thought. It is this generative process that had its flowering in the early 1950s. By the 1960s, many emerging musicians had become enamored of the wonders of the fresh and exciting new world of Stockhausen’s integral serialism that was then the rage. There seemed limitless excitement, then. It seemed there would be no bounds to the creative impulse; composers could do anything, or so it seemed. At the time, most composers hadn’t really examined serialism carefully for its inherent limitations. But it seemed so fresh. However, it soon became apparent that it was Stockhausen’s exciting musical approach that was fresh, and not so much the serialism itself, to which he was then married. It became clear, later, that the methods he used were born of two special considerations that ultimately transcend serial devices: crossing tempi and metrical patterns; and, especially, the concept that treats pitch and timbre as special cases of rhythm. (Stockhausen referred to the crossovers as “contacts”, and he even entitled one of his compositions that explored this realm Kontakte.) These gestures, it turns out, are really independent from serialism in that they can be explored from different approaches.

The most spectacular approach at that time was serialism, though, and not so much these (then-seeming) sidelights. It is this very approach — serialism — however, that after having seemingly opened so many new doors, germinated the very seeds of modern music’s own demise. The method is highly prone to mechanical divinations. Consequently, it makes composition easy, like following a recipe. In serial composition, the less thoughtful composer seemingly can divert his/her soul away from the compositional process. Inspiration can be buried, as method reigns supreme. The messy intricacies of note shaping, and the epiphanies one experiences from necessary partnership with one’s essences (inside the mind and the soul — in a sense, our familiars) can be discarded conveniently. All is rote. All is compartmentalized. For a long time this was the honored method, long hallowed by classroom teachers and young composers-to-be, alike, at least in the US. Soon, a sense of sterility emerged in the musical atmosphere; many composers started to examine what was taking place.

Learning to Apprehend Music is actual important for getting able to play calmly on every instrument, and advance afterimage account in exams. There are four simple accomplish that can advice you apprentice to apprehend music fast.When a agenda is written, you attending area the agenda is placed, and that is how you apprehend music. Once you are able to anamnesis and abode any agenda on both the bass and acute clef, you will apperceive you accept abstruse to apprehend music.

To bethink the acute author addendum quickly, bethink that the acute author addendum in the spaces are F, A, C, E. We do not charge a appropriate catchword to bethink this, because it artlessly spells out  face.The bass author addendum in the curve are G, B, D, F, A- so bethink the mnemonic: Great Big Dogs Fight Animals.

To analysis yourself, accomplish cast cards and address anniversary agenda of the music accent on the card. Then abode them face down- and cast up anniversary one, and see if you can abode the agenda in the appropriate place.   Those were the four accomplish to bethink the curve and spaces of anniversary author quickly, and accordingly helps you to apprentice to apprehend music bound and easily. Good luck on your music journey!