Posts Tagged as ‘music’

December 3, 2008

Looking for a Street Team!

Manage my e-team?
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Conducting an Effective E-team

By now most of you have heard of the term “Street Team“. If you haven’t, then here’s a little 411. Street teams are a group of music fans that are willing to spread the word about your band on the street. They tend to want [...]

June 20, 2008

Bringing the idea to life.

As I get older and pick up more responsibility, I find myself working harder to secure a good life. This involves hours of implementing and employing new marketing strategies to make money as an independent musician.

One of the new ideas I have turned into reality has been organizing my own concert and drumming up [...]

May 8, 2008

7 Steps to writing a good song

There are 7 factors that I require when writing a good song and they are:
1) Emotions: The best place to find these are through a woman or a bottle of whiskey (note* whiskey was created after emotions were lost on a woman)
2) Catchy melody: Usually my songs start with some sort of chord progression on [...]

May 1, 2008

Inducted into the Numata music Hall of Fame

Woooo Hoooo!
I just wanted to share the news that I’ve been inducted into the Numata Music Hall of Fame!
The category is for best white foreign musician!
For those of you who don’t know about it let me explain:
Numata is a city in Japan of about 50,000 people.
There are approximately 10 white foreigners here.
There are two musicians.
I [...]

April 30, 2008

Hero’s that motivate me.

There are many musicians that I worship and have incredible respect for. The beatles are just one for example. However, recently being an indie artists has turned being a singer/songwriter/performer into a BUSINESS man too. Let´s face it, we are all now running a business. It´s been a really great experience learning all the facets [...]

April 30, 2008

The music behind the man

The music behind the man

This is my page for sharing my thoughts on music. Whether it be educational advice, tutorials, sharing some success stories, random thoughts, creative ideas or the business side, this is where you’ll find it.
~Kelly Pettit