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Link: Songza Self Promotion Beta Program
2008-02-26 20:11:00 I was surfing around the web today and came across Songza, which I had seen before, but not taken much notice. But today I noticed a link saying…“Want to promote your band on Songza? Learn more about our Self-Promotion Beta Program .”. I don’t know how long this link has been there, but I thought that ... More About: Link
Video: Air (Kalimba Solo) by SaReGaMa
2008-02-22 19:24:00 Great little video showing the talented musician SaReGaMa playing a Kalimba Solo from his track Air. The Kalimba is an instrument I don’t see often and this video shows off the instrument very well. If you are interested in hearing more music from SaReGaMa you can visit his personal site.You can also find his album Inward ... More About: Video
Video: Some Amazing Glass Harp Players
2008-02-22 11:55:00 Searching through some videos on YouTube and I came across some videos of some very talented Glass Harp players that I wanted to share.Here is a selection of my favourite ones I came across. It must take a while to set up and tune these everytime, but the end result is a very nice sound. ... More About: Video , Players , Amazing
Featured Web Site: OurStage
2008-02-21 13:21:00 Another site worthy of entering Rhythm Creation’s Hall of Fame. OurStage is a nice site with a great concept in creating charts of submitted music from various genres. It has features for both listeners and musicians that make OurStage a worthwhile visit for both. OurStage is unique due to the way the charts are worked out. ... More About: Site , Featured , Web site
My Torrent Experiment - 2 Week Update (So Far Not Convinced)
2008-02-20 18:04:00 As you may or may not of seen I have been experimenting with torrent files of my own music to see how effective they are at being used as a way of promoting your own music. Torrent files are seen by many in the Music Business as something to hate, I on the other hand ... More About: Experiment , Update , Week
Featured Web Site: Jamendo
2008-02-19 21:57:00 Every now and again on Rhythm Creation I feature a web site which is of great use to us musicians and place them in the Hall of Fame. This time is a great little site which I have personally started to use called Jamendo. Jamendo is a site which allows visitors to discover, listen to and ... More About: Site , Featured , Web site
5 Tips For Unsigned and Indie Musicians Who Are Uploading Torrents
2008-02-09 13:13:00 As you may have seen yesterday I started My Torrent Experiment to see whether torrents can be useful for unsigned and unknown independent musicians to help promote their music. I have a few tips for those who are starting to upload their own music through the torrent networks and sites such as The Pirate Bay ... More About: Tips , Indie , Musicians , Unsigned , Uploading
Pirating Your Own Music for Promotion - My Torrent Experiment Begins
2008-02-08 18:13:00 Note: You can download my first torrent from Here. (It is electronica breakbeat/big beat music, you can preview it on the right hand side of this page) I’m sure that recently in the media and on the internet, most of you would have heard about torrents and the online world of pirated music downloads. I have ... More About: Music , Promotion , Torrent , Experiment
A Funny Reply I Received Today For A Demo I Sent Out
2008-01-24 16:38:00 I just had to put this letter online because I found it quite funny. I’ve been sending my music demo off to some record labels recently and this email popped into my inbox this morning. I’m not going to put the actual label who sent it as it came from a representative and so I’m ... More About: Funny , Today , Demo
Tips and Ideas On How To Approach A Remix
2008-01-23 21:44:00 Recently I completed a remix as an entry into a remix contest. I haven’t done too much remixing before but I think I did pretty well with the track I remixed and thought I would share my thoughts, tips and ideas about the remixing process and what seemed to work well for me when remixing. The ... More About: Ideas , Remix , Tips
Loads of Track Previews Available of My Upcoming Album
2008-01-20 14:03:00 You may have noticed that I haven’t posted on Rhythm Creation for a week or so this is due to working on my debut album during every bit of spare time that I have. So because of the lack of posts I thought I would upload some of my tracks to make up for it ... More About: Track , Album , Upcoming
Link: Things You Can Learn From The Music Business
2008-01-12 15:39:00 When I was looking for ways to promote Rhythm Creation over the internet I came across Seth Godin’s Blog and I noticed this facinating article today about lessons that can be learnt from the current music industry. It is a very interesting read and I thought I would point out this article because I think ... More About: Business , Music , Link , Things , Learn
Video: Music Animation - Animusic (Pipe Dream)
2008-01-08 13:35:00 Found this great little video made by a company called Animusic. It’s animated and shows some great video-music synchronization work. Animusic has got loads of other videos using different instruments and settings available on their DVDs but this one seems to be one of the more popular ones. I’m not sure whether this sort of ... More About: Video , Animation , Music , Dream , Pipe
How To Create A Hard House Hoover Synth Sound
2008-01-05 17:44:00 I used to make a lot of hard house music and one of the most common sounds in hard house and similar types of hard dance music is the hoover sound. Even though it is used a lot (sometimes too much) some people have trouble recreating this sound themselves and end up using samples. The ... More About: House , Sound , Hard , Create , Hoover
A Tip For Musicians Sending Tracks To Online Radio Stations
2008-01-03 13:26:00 I learnt something new today and thought I would share it with you. The other week I sent a few tracks off to TSM Radio , a radio station which is devoted to playing unsigned and independant artists. I was rather happy to see that they added 2 of my tracks to their playlist. (Thanks TSM ... More About: Online , Tracks , Musicians , Sending
5 Great Web Sites You Should Be Using To Promote Your Music
2008-01-03 12:57:00 You’ve made some great sounding tunes, now you want to get some people who aren’t your own family and friends to take a listen and start getting your music out there to be heard (That is why you created it right?). Well you could start off by trying my list below of 5 sites I ... More About: Music , Promote , Great , Web Sites , Sites
Why Do Bands & Musicians Still Want To Get Signed?
2007-12-29 13:33:00 This is a question I have been asking myself recently, mainly due to me releasing some of my own music independently without a label behind me and also because there seems to still be a high percentage of musicians and bands that still want to be signed even though there are some great facilities in ... More About: Signed , Bands , Musicians
Teaching Music With Reason Now Available for FREE
2007-12-28 17:24:00 Yes you did read the title correctly! Propellerhead Software, the creators of the fabulous Reason music creation software have decided to release their educational package called Teaching Music with Reason for free download under a creative commons license. The package includes 21 complete lessons in PDF format as well as some example songs. Unfortunately it hasn’t ... More About: Free
Basic Waveforms - The Sine, Square, Triangle and Sawtooth Waves
2007-12-28 14:23:00 Sine, Square , Triangle and Sawtooth are the basic waveforms (a graphical representation of a sound) used in most popular synthesizers. Most oscillators (The part of a synthesizer which generates the basic waveform) can produce all four of these basic waveforms. All are very different sounding and have their own characteristics which can greatly affect the ... More About: Basic , Waves , Sine
13 Ideas To Help You If You Are Suffering From Musicians Block
2007-12-26 15:52:00 Musicians block is the musicians equivalent to writers block and most people who regularly produce their own tracks or write their own songs will suffer with musicians block at some point. So if you are sitting in front of your instrument and/or equipment and no ideas are coming through, these tips and ideas may help ... More About: Ideas , Suffering , Block , Musicians
New Design on Rhythm Creation
2007-12-24 21:42:00 As you may of noticed there is a new design for Rhythm Creation . I hope it will be more user friendly and nicer to use both for me and you. It took a bit of messing around with so I haven’t posted for a few days. If you see any problems whatsoever please Contact Me More About: Design
Beginners Guide To Music Production - Part 3 - Setting Up Your Studio
2007-12-21 00:00:00 <<< Beginners Guide To Music Production - Part 2 - Choosing Your Software In part 1 I talked about the equipment you will be needing to start music production and in part 2 I talked about the software needed. In this section we are going to bring together both our equipment and room together to set ... More About: Studio
Link: We Hear Different Music Depending On How We Dance To It
2007-12-20 00:00:00 I came across this article today complete with audio examples, about a psychology science experiment devised by Jessica Phillips-Sliver and Laurel Trainor looking into whether movement itself (dance) may affect the way in which we perceive music and sounds. I thought I would bring this little experiment to your attention not only because I thought it ... More About: Music , Dance , Hear , Link , Diff
Beginners Guide To Music Production - Part 1 - Equipment
2007-12-20 00:00:00 Over the next few weeks Rhythm Creation is going to go way back down to basics by writing some beginners guides. There are loads of people out there that want to start creating and producing their own music and need a little help to get started. I was a music beginner once too and these ... More About: Music , Equipment , Guide , Production , Part
Beginners Guide To Music Production - Part 2 - Choosing Your Software
2007-12-20 00:00:00 <<< Beginners Guide To Music Production - Part 1 - Equipment In part 1 I talked about the basic equipment you will need to get started producing your own music and in part 2 I am going to talk about the next important decision your going to need to make which is choosing your software. This ... More About: Software
The Thummer - Could This Be The Next Big Instrument?
2007-12-16 00:00:00 The Thummer from Thumtronics, I came across this new piece of kit via a post on Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog and I was quite impressed by it. The Thummer has lots of buttons in a new styled layout combined with abilities to manipulate the sounds it creates via it’s internal synthesizer. Whether this will take ... More About: Instrument
Video: London Elektricity - How To Play Drum & Bass Live
2007-12-15 00:00:00 Found this brilliant little video of a Drum & Bass band called London Elektricity. They show you how they play Drum & Bass live which can seem a strange concept at first to musicians who use computers for composition. I like the way in which they describe about how they use the drum pads to ... More About: Video , Play , Live
Web Site of the Week: TheSixtyOne
2007-12-15 00:00:00 TheSixtyOne is a new site to appear that allows artists and bands to upload their music to promote it to new listeners. It works very similar to sites such as Digg as listeners can bump up tracks that they enjoy and these tracks can then go on to make it to the front page if ... More About: Site , Week , Web site
How To Allow People to Listen To Your Tracks On Your Web Site
2007-12-12 00:00:00 One of the best things you can do to promote your music to the world is to have your own web site. As musicians we require a way in which we can enable visitors to be able to listen to tracks easily and I think I have came across a really nice and easy way ... More About: People , Site , Listen , Tracks , Web site
Get Fatter, Heavier, Different Drum Sounds by Layering Your Samples
More articles from this author:2007-12-11 00:00:00 One thing I try to do when creating drums for my tracks is to really try and get a BIG sound. I love big fat drum sounds :-). The drums are the first part of a track that I lay down and I believe that if I can get the drums to sound great to ... More About: Sounds , Samples , Drum , Erin , Diff 1, 2, 3 |
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