The Cut the Grap! Guide to Making a Record
The Cut the Grap! Guide to Making a Record

Author: Gary Marshall

Publisher: Artemis Music Ltd

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781904411093

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Making a record used to be simple: you'd start a band, tour for 400 years, and if you were lucky a record company would spot you and pay for some studio time. Now you can make your own records on a budget of almost zero, and it's possible to record a song in the morning and sell it in the afternoon. you're planning to burn a few CDs to sell at gigs or making a triple vinyl concept album about electric elves that frolic in the magic forest. It covers the basics (what to record, where to record it, how to pay for it) and looks at everything from home CD burning to commercial pressing plants. You'll find out how to get your record reviewed or played on the radio, how to get it into the shops, and how to make sure you won't end up with a million unsold CDs underneath your bed. The book is also packed with advice from industry insiders - managers, artists and record labels - who have successfully released everything from dance, blues and rock records to compilation CDs.

The Cut the Crap! Guide to Music Technology
The Cut the Crap! Guide to Music Technology

Author: Gary Marshall

Publisher: Artemis Music Ltd

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781904411079

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Whether you're a guitarist trying to make your guitar go gneee flumph and oo-ee-oo-ee, a bass player who's fed up with the same old sounds or a bedroom techno overlord working on the number one hits of the future, technology can help turn your ideas into reality. get - samplers, MIDI, guitar equipment and even things for drummers - and explains what they do, who's using them, and what you should look for when you go shopping. It also tells you what to do when technology attacks: why you should always assume things will go spectacularly wrong at the worst possible moment, and what you can do to make sure it doesn't irritate you.

The Cut the Crap! Guide to the Guitar
The Cut the Crap! Guide to the Guitar

Author: Gary Marshall

Publisher: Artemis Music Ltd

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781904411239

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In this text, Gary Marshall includes a complete A to Z of the guitar and a comprehensive listing of Web resources and it is packed with diagrams and helpful illustrations.

The Cut the Crap! Guide to the Music Business
The Cut the Crap! Guide to the Music Business

Author: Gary Marshall

Publisher: Artemis Music Ltd

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781904411062

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How do you avoid being ripped off by unscrupulous promoters, or what to do if you really, really want to punch your bass player? That's where this Cut the Crap Guide comes in. Based on real musicians' experiences. it is designed to cover the things you really need to know: how to get gigs, how to get on the radio, how to make money from music, and how to avoid playing in front of three drunks and a murderer on a damp Tuesday in Dunfermline.

The Cut the Crap! Guide to Music on the Internet
The Cut the Crap! Guide to Music on the Internet

Author: Gary Marshall

Publisher: Artemis Music Ltd

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781904411086

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If you're in a band, you need the Internet. Whether it's building a Web site to showcase your music, downloading free drum loops from online sample libraries or just getting into huge sweary fights with complete strangers, the Net is the best thing that's happened to music since Phil Collins stopped touring. everything from how to build a Web site (find a geek and give him beer) to practical advice on making money and staying out of trouble. Detailed advice about what works and what doesn't features, together with some sneaky tips to help you along the way

Cut the CRAP and Make the Sale
Cut the CRAP and Make the Sale

Author: Russ Peterson

Publisher: DC Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781932021073

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Cut the CRAP and Make the Sale is the first and only sales handbook to marry a proven psychological methodology to overcome your problems (CRAP) with professional selling techniques. By first understanding the internal selling deterrents, you are better prepared for sales success. Catastophizing happens when a sales rep imagines the worst will become real. Understanding the Selling and Buyer Processes, the mystery of worst case scenario will disappear. Rationalizing is a hurdle that allows sales people to logically make sense of why they are not doing what they should. The book arms people with successful prospecting techniques that defeat rationalizing. Agonizing can cause complete inertia as one weighs decisions. Overcoming agonizing means overcoming fear. Agonizing is destroyed when you are armed with the selling tools used by successful sales pros. Finally, Procrastinating leads to mismanagement of your most valuable resource: your time. Sales can be lost in a matter of minutes. While you are pursuing bad business, your competitors are signing contracts.

Spin Alternative Record Guide
Spin Alternative Record Guide

Author: Eric Weisbard

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13:

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America's premiere alternative music magazine presents a book of outrageously opinionated reviews of the essential albums of punk, new wave, indie rock, grunge, and rap. Its abundantly illustrated, full-color pages provide in-depth and informative record reviews on the widest possible scale of alternative music. National ads/media.

All Music Guide to Rock
All Music Guide to Rock

Author: Vladimir Bogdanov

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1430

ISBN-13: 9780879306533

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This fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference has been completely updated, expanded, and revised with reviews of over 12,000 great albums by over 2,000 artists and groups in all rock genres. 50 charts.