Henry Mancini was a master musician. His music will always beremembered and anytime you watch a film that he scored you’lllearn to identify his sound and hear what a great musician hewas. You can actually hear his trademark sound and get torecognize his style.Pink Panther’s Penthouse Party came out to coincide with therelease of the DVD box set of the Pink Panther Movies. The CDincludes...

As I understand it, the members of Archer Avenue don’t sharea hometown, but are spread out between San Antonio, El Paso andHouston. How did you guys meet up and end up forming a bandtogether?DAVE: (drums) We met in the SA bar scene, Jack (vocals, guitar)and I knew each other from Trinity University. I had known Marc(lead guitar) for years and we been playing around town with ourband at the time...

This is the perfect playlist for HALLOWEEN! I figured these tracks would work great for this time of yearwhen everyone gets dressed up and goes out to parties or trickor treating. I figured a mostly electronica mix would work greatso this is what I have come up with. I start things off with The Hacker of Miss Kittin and The Hackerfame. It’s a great spooky, dark track of minimal electro soundsthat...

We all have creative blocks from time to time. Creativityrequires positive thinking! As a musician, its important tobelieve in yourself and create the right environment in order tofeel more creative and be spontaneous. Of course, if you don’ttake yourself first, you can’t be creative at all. To increaseyour creativity, make sure you get enough sleep, practice deepbreathing, daydream, and...

This article will show you how to make yourself more PerformanceAttractive by standing out in the musicians’ marketplace. One ofthe secrets of attracting lots of performances to you (asopposed to pushing hard to get them, like you may be doing now)is to stand out big time and offer things others don’t. There’s a standard marketing term called the USP, Unique SellingProposition, that’s...

Over the past few years or so, I’ve had the chance to meet manysuccessful people. Actually, many of them I have known for yearsand I meet them regularly, but I guess I had just taken the factthat they were successful for granted. When I realised I couldlearn so much from them, and see what they do to be successful,maybe I can be successful too. I ask all of them a simplequestion: “How can...

Once you know what your Unique Selling Proposition is as amusician (we covered this in the last issue), it’s time to askyourself what kind of venue you want to be letting those talentsout in. This is the process that will help you determine your”Perfect Performance Venue” so that you don’t waste your energyand efforts searching for performances in the wrong area! Takesome time...