So this week’s blog is short. It’s also of paramount importance. If you are the writer for your band learn you craft. Learn it from the great writers. Think about their themes and their tricks to reach your soul. That’s why they are great writers and that, if you want to succeed at rock, is what you must do….
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Jonathan Coulton and Creative Commons copyright….
I asked Jonathan Coulton to discuss his progressive attitude towards controlling his recordings on the web. For those of you who haven’t heard of Jonathon yet he is one of the more interesting Post Guided by Voices , Lo Fi musicians breaking through the inertia of Nirvana and programmed pop. His songwriting combined with a generous and healthy attitude about giving everyone access to his music helped him break out and create some purely web driven hits like “Code Monkey” and “Still Alive” (A song released as the final durge on the underground hit video game Portal). In short Jonathan is a talented songwriter that is comfortable with the changes that the web has offered and
Volunteers? Not the Jefferson Airplane song….
Ok readers I am looking for volunteers to submit a track or two of their music. It will appear on the site in my blog. I will then dissect the track and criticise ( or praise) songwriting, performing, recording etc. If you decide to do this you should be thick-skinned and brave since I will most [...]
Lesson #12 Let’s talk about Royalties (pt 2)……..
In the last post I mentioned that people pay royalties for the USE OF THE SONG. The song itself is the property. This is not to be confused with the recording of the song. The recording is a different piece of property. Think of it this way. You buy a dvd of Termintor 2. Does that mean you control the use of the movie Terminator 2. Of course not. You just have a copy of it. The company that paid for the movie owns the rights. Well behind those Hollywood dudes is a writer, the guy that wrote the script. He may still own the script. That writer is like the songwriter
