If you have been to a shopping mall on, at least, one occasion,you know the tremendous crowds that most of them attract daily.Hundreds, and even thousands, of daily shoppers flock to thelargest shopping malls. And, while most malls have large crowds year round, two oftheir busiest shopping periods are during summer and Christmasseasons, which adds even more potential mall shoppers. Also, most people...

Why is it easy to compose piano music?Because you have to start from where you are. This should befairly easy; otherwise you have not started from where you are.A suggestion is to start writing piano pieces for beginners in aprogressive order. The idea is that as the pieces get morecomplicated for the player they will also become morecomplicated for you to notate and compose and you willsubsequently...

As an independent musician and/or recording artist, if you did*NOT* earn $30,000 (or more) with your music alone last year,let’s jump right in and get you started with doing so this year. Again, bear in mind that the main necessary ingredient is”consistency” of every aspect, and on a weekly basis. Remember! This is a worst case scenario, in regard to what youshould be able to easily...

Did you know that you can get television and radio stations toattend your gigs and give you media coverage? Well, you can,*IF* you are performing the “right types” of gigs. So, what are the right types of gigs? Well, in short, these are gigs that are most likely to inspirearea stations to cover them because they are, largely, nonprofit organization and charity fundraisers that benefit...

Unless you are on a tour from January 1 to December 31, and aredoing back-to-back television, radio and print interviews tosupport your new release, you probably have, at least, a coupleof hours to ‘kill’, so to speak, each week. In fact, it is likely that you have more than a couple of hoursto kill that you would like to put to good use. As such, haveyou ever thought of using that time...

Okay, y’all…remember that old TV show called “Name That Tune?” Well, I couldn’t wait a full week to get this one out because,not only is it so important, but it is, in fact, vital and canget you involved *very* quickly in a lawsuit, which could befinancially devastating to your career. Plus, as I would have normally published this article on thiscoming Friday, I am otherwise...

In my experiences, most independent musicians do very little, ifanything, in the interest of generating advance exposure fortheir upcoming new music releases. This is, most likely, due tonot having a strong enough budget in most cases. When I was writing my first music handbook fifteen years ago, Icontacted a Phoenix radio music director for one of my book’sinterviews and asked how important...