The Independent Artist's Guide for Singers Songwriters Bands Producers and Self-Publishers-In order to achieve success in today's music industry artists must first do a great deal of work on their own. Learning the required skills can take years of real-life experience and hiring personal coaches studio professionals and consultants can be costly. But now for the first time there's an invaluable resource to help you meet these challenges. Five Star Music Makeover is an engaging all-in-one guide designed specifically for aspiring artists. Written by five experts with over 100 years of collective experience both on and off the stage this unique book covers five key skills every musician needs to succeed: (1) improving vocal production/technique;(2) writing memorable and marketable songs; (3) recording your ultimate EP; (4) navigating the publishing world; and (5) promoting music effectively. Also included are insiders' stories and anecdotes helpful tips creative exercises celebrity interviews and all the practical expertise necessary to develop a successful music career. Five Star Music Makeover is a complete and practical career guide - a resource that transforms artists from good to great.

A Guide to Practice Performance and Inspiration-Become a better musician through yoga. By integrating yoga into your practice routines you will develop a more focused and concentrated mind for performance. You will be able to increase awareness of how you use your body toallow for proper posture and ease of movement while performing helping you to avoid overuse injuries and play with greater expression.These concepts exercises and practice routines present yoga from the musicians'perspective focusing on the direct relationships between using yoga and creating music.You will learn to:Practice meditation approaches breathing techniques and yoga postures that will help improvemusicianshipPlay using healthy posture and techniqueGet more out of your practice through improved focusUse your breath to improve your phrasing and also to ease performance anxietyPlay with deeper expressionthrough inspiration.

Copyright Essentials for Today's Music Business-With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge plain-language guide shows you how copyright law drives the contemporary music industry. By looking at the law and its recent history you will understand the new issues introduced by the digital age as well as continuing issues of traditional copyright law. Whether you are an artist lawyer entertainment Web site administrator record label executive student or other participant in the music industry this book will help you understand how copyright law affects you helping you use the law toyour benefit. - How do you get fair compensation for your work and avoid making costly mistakes? - Can you control who is selling your music on their website? - Is it legal to create mash-ups? - What qualifies as fair use? - How do you clear another artist's samples to use in your own recordings? - What is the Creative Commons/Copyleft movement? - How do you clear music for use in an online music service or store? - Who decides who gets paid how much and by whom? You will learn the answers to these questions as well as: - The basics of copyright law looking at the Copyright Act while explaining it in plain language - How revenue streams for music are generated under copyright law - The reasoning behind high-profile court decisions related to copyright violations -What licenses are needed for the legal online delivery of music - The intricacies of using music on sites like YouTube Pandora and Spotify - Deficiencies in current copyright law and new business model ideas

The Essential Guide To Songwriting Producing & Recording brings to those of all ages a simple easy to understand approach to learning songwriting producing and recording. Written by an acclaimed instructor at several major music schools this book puts incredibly sophisticated knowledge into plain everyday language with stories metaphors photos illustrations and examples that are sure to educate as well as entertain.

7 songs from the Broadway standard including: Brotherhood of Man · Grand Old Ivy · Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm · How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying · I Believe in You · Love from a Heart of Gold · Paris Original.