The holiday season is a big time for the music industry. Twenty percent of music sales happen in the last six weeks of the year. While major releases dominate this time of year, you can also use the holiday season to build your own momentum, increase sales, and set yourself up for a successful new...
It’s a truism of being in a band that opening for an established act is a sound method to promote your music and get your name out there. When you’re starting out, the chance to open for your musical heroes is a reward in itself; playing on the same bill as a band whose albums you’ve...
Former Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland was found dead on his tour bus in Minnesota. He was 48. Scott was on tour with his band The Wildabouts. His body was found around 9 PM. The source reads: “Police surrounded the bus, which was parked outside a motel near the venue where the...
IK Multimedia is proud to announce T-RackS Mic Room for Mac/PC, a powerful new microphone-modelling module that gives producers the power to process and “re-mike” their physical microphones to sound and perform like some of the most popular studio microphones of all time. With a collection...
Vocal manipulation has become increasingly common in mainstream music as of late, with artists like Kanye West, the Weeknd, and Grimes leading the way. We’re giving Grammys to musicians who use autotune religiously – and it’s not because our expectations from vocalists are diminishing;...
Sadly we lost these talented people from the music world. Svein Christiansen, 74, Norwegian jazz drummer, Arthur Brooks, 82, American singer (The Impressions). Armand, 69, Dutch protest singer. John Theunissen, 66, Dutch guitarist (Pussycat). Daniel Ferro, 94, American opera singer and vocal...
On the local scene, the vocals are often an afterthought, barely touched on in rehearsals, under-mixed live and hurried in the studio. On the international scene, the singer IS the band. On top of this pressure, many performers are insecure. The prevailing, idiotic, mentality often imposed on singers...
Boss’s RC-505 Loop Station is a user-friendly looper for DJs, vocalists, beatboxers and other artists, that serves just as well in the studio as it does on stage. The Loop Station allows you to record up to 5 stereo tracks, using its microphone input (XLR, with phantom power), its 6.3mm instrument...
So you’ve previously released an album, an EP, or even just a single, and you’re ready to embark on your next project. With so many places to start when it comes to songwriting approaches, recording strategies, and marketing endeavors, it’s important that you ask yourself a few key questions...
In today’s highly competitive music industry, it seems like it’s becoming harder and harder for independent artists to break through the noise into the mainstream. Record labels are constantly bombarded with samples from “the next big thing,” but what’s the trick to actually standing...
Today only – we are giving you a massive £30 off of your membership fee to join My Singing Lessons. To start teaching singing please click HERE and sign up, but remember the offer is just for 27th November...
All singers want their voices to sound better, stronger, more controlled, and professional, and of course we all want that bigger range. And yet, vocal training is usually something we only do when we’re first starting out. As a singer, your voice is your instrument. You should be working on improving...
You’ll soon regain your strength with these 4 insights. Resilience is a core skill to nurture if we want to be an artist and live a creative life. At some point we all face a “no” when we want a “yes”. What’s important is that you let it inform you, not define you. Strategies to...
The TC Helicon VoiceLive Play features automatic backing harmonies, vocal double tracking, pristine EQ and compression, lush reverbs and hard-tuned robo-voice. The GENRE button lets you easily browse through hundreds of presets and quickly find the ones to suit your style. You can also download new...
You feel the irritating tickle in your throat, the slight pressure in your sinuses and you notice that funny taste in your mouth. There’s no mistaking it. You are coming down with a cold. What’s worse, you’ve got a performance in three days. Ready to do anything to save your show, you...
