This week, community member (and Platinum-selling producer/engineer) Arty Skye serves up an easy to follow recipe for making mouthwatering music productions from home. Sound like the pros with this informative "how-to" music production article from a legendary music producer!
Sometimes you have a bad night. Your guitar was out of tune, you forgot the lyrics, you missed cues, and your head was just somewhere else. It happens in music, it happens in sports, it happens in life. But it’s what you do about it that separates the winners from the losers!
He's been producing and engineering in NYC for over 25 years and has earned 14 Gold/Platinum Records working with Madonna, Will Smith, Santana, Missy Elliot, Public Enemy, Alicia Keys and many more. Producer Arty Skye offers his advice on how to make your home recordings sound like a million bucks with this informative (and honest) new music production article. See if you agree with him...
Uber-Producer/Engineer Arty Skye (Madonna, Will Smith, Santana, Missy Elliot, Public Enemy, Alicia Keys) is back this week with a reality check and roadmap for any musician wanting to get discovered. Check out Arty's advice and see if you have what it takes to get your music to the next level HERE...
Our A&R expert, former GM of Urban Music for Tommy Boy Records, Ian Steaman (Queen Latifah, Naughty by Nature, De La Soul, House of Pain, etc...), returns today to answer your questions about the music industry, getting signed, record labels--and how you can get discovered! Got a music 'biz question for Ian? The only place to ask him is here at Getsigned.com!
Q. Dear Ian: how do l get started as a session singer? Thanks, Alisha
Our A&R expert, former GM of Urban Music for Tommy Boy Records, Ian Steaman (Queen Latifah, Naughty by Nature, De La Soul, House of Pain, etc...), returns today to answer your questions about the music industry, getting signed, record labels--and how you can get discovered! Got a music 'biz question for Ian? The only place to ask him is here at Getsigned.com!
Q. Dear Ian-: I am a 23yr old multi-instrumentalist. I play the kit, guitars, bass, keys, percussion...I am building a portfolio of tracks (beats) i.e. hip hop, r&b, dance....I rarely sample and I am at the point where I would like to sell them. Who do I holler at for production work? Who can I send my material to? And, can I trust people to not resample my work having only a poor man's copyright? Thanks, Devin
I am constantly surprised at the way musicians approach people to start business relationships. I have had a blog up and running for the last two years as a way of getting potential customers to see what my services as a music business coach entail and also because I enjoy writing and learning more about how the music business does and doesn’t work. I am not as overwhelmed by the pure volume of submissions I used to be when I was working as an A&R executive at Atlantic or Elektra Records but the manner in which people approach me is still exactly the same.
What getting signed means today is vastly different from what it meant when this site was first launched over ten years ago. This article - and many of my upcoming articles, will not be directly aimed at how to put a demo or an independent record into an A&R executive's hands. They will, however, be focused on how to advance an artist's career. There is much more to the game these days and much more an artist has to do on their own before the odds of approaching a record label (or any strong strategic partner) are better than the odds of buying Lotto tickets.
Since I first put my Musician Coaching Website up a couple of years ago, the question I get asked more than any other by a huge margin is, "How do I get a record deal?"
In some ways I am surprised by this question because from a large percentage of musicians I meet there is a great deal of hostility and resentment towards the industry. It is as if people are willing to put aside their frustration with labels only when their career has stalled.
Former Tommy Boy Records' Senior Director of Marketing and A&R, Ian Steaman (Queen Latifah, House of Pain, De La Soul and Joydrop) returns to answer your questions about the music industry--and how you can break into it!