Guitar Care: String Cleaning Did you know that a clean fretboard will help extend the life of your strings? If you change your strings without cleaning your fretboard, the bottom of your new strings will pick up any grime and other buildup left on the fretboard as you play, which can shorten the lifespan of your strings by as much as 30 percent. If you haven’t cleaned your fretboard in a while, the next time you change your strings, take a moment to clean the surface of the fretboard and frets with super-fine steel wool (0000 grade), followed by a touch of boiled linseed oil (a little goes a long way). For a step-by-step refresher, see our informative “Clean and Restring” demonstration video (Parts 1 & 2) on the Taylor website.
Government drops clause on orphan works but inserts amendment criticised as over-broad which could block sites based on ‘intent’
The House of Commons during the Committee stage of the digital economy bill, April 2010 [this caption was amended on 8 April 2010. It originally said that the Bill was at the third reading]
The government forced through the controversial digital economy billwith the aid of the Conservative party last night, attaining a crucial third reading – which means it will get royal assent and become law – after just two hours of debate in the Commons.
However it was forced to drop clause 43 of the bill, a proposal on orphan works which had been opposed by photographers. They welcomed the news: “The UK government wanted to introduce a law to allow anyone to use your photographs commercially, or in ways you might not like, without asking you first. They have failed,” said the site set up to oppose the proposals.
But despite opposition from the Liberal Democrats and a number of Labour MPs who spoke up against measures contained in the bill and put down a number of proposed amendments, the government easily won two votes to determine the content of the bill and its passage through the committee stage without making any changes it had not already agreed.
Tom Watson, the former Cabinet Office minister who resigned in mid-2009, voted against the government for the first time in the final vote to take the bill to a third reading. However the vote was overwhelmingly in the government’s favour, which it won by 189 votes to 47.
Earlier the government removed its proposed clause 18, which could have given it sweeping powers to block sites, but replaced it with an amendment to clause 8 of the bill. The new clause allows the secretary of state for business to order the blocking of “a location on the internetwhich the court is satisfied has been, is being or is likely to be used for or in connection with an activity that infringes copyright”.
The Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming protested that this could mean the blocking of the whistleblower site Wikileaks, which carries only copyrighted work. Stephen Timms for the government said that it would not want to see the clause used to restrict freedom of speech – but gave no assurance that sites like Wikileaks would not be blocked.
Don Foster, the Liberal Democrats’ spokesman for culture, media and sport, protested that the clause was too wide-ranging: “it could apply to Google,” he complained, adding that its inclusion of the phrase about “likely to be used” meant that a site could be blocked on its assumed intentions rather than its actions.
The Lib Dem opposition to that amendment prompted the first vote - known as a division – on the bill, but the Labour and Conservative whips pushed it through, winning it by 197 votes to 40. The next 42 clauses of the bill were then considered in five minutes.
Numerous MPs complained that the bill was too important and its ramifications too great for it to be pushed through in this “wash-up” period in which bills are not given the usual detailed examination.
However the government declined to yield – although it had already done a deal with the Tories which meant that a number of its provisions, including clause 43 and the creation of independent local news consortia, would not be part of the bill.
How much money do artists really make from Spotify? According to Swedish paper Expressen, 2009’s standout breakthrough artist Lady Gaga and her songwriter Redone made just SEK1150 (£100.76; $166.56) in songwriting royalties from one million Spotify plays of her hit Poker Face in Sweden in the first five months after Spotify’s launch in October 2008, according to figures from the Swedish Performing
Last year it was claimed that 1m Spotify plays of Lady Gaga’s hit Poker Face earned her just $167. Photograph: Axel Heimken/AP
An association of songwriters has hit out at Spotify, casting fresh doubt on the streaming service’s capacity to generate income for musicians.
The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (Basca), which represents 2,000 songwriters, claimed yesterday that the payments generated are “tiny” and called for the company to be more transparent about the nature of its business.
At the moment, Spotify does not disclose details of its deals with labels and publishers, and Basca chairman Patrick Rackow says this is leading to a climate of fear and distrust.
He told the BBC: “At the moment, the amounts of money that are actually being received are tiny. That might be because there is no money there. But there is no clear trail that can be established so that the songwriter can trace back what they ought to have got. These things are behind a blanket of secrecy, and that is extremely worrying.
“The danger is that these deals all become so secret that the mist that descends creates uncertainty, creates fear. That allied to the fact that the sums being paid through are very small creates a climate of suspicion. I think it harms Spotify, it harms the writers’ perception of Spotify and this is a service they want to support.”
The Swedish-owned company has been hailed in some quarters as a saviour of the music industry, offering users free streaming of a huge catalogue of music punctuated by short adverts. A monthly premium of £9.99 gets users uninterrupted access to the catalogue.
But last year it was claimed that over a five-month period, 1m plays of Lady Gaga’s hit Poker Face – one of the most popular songs on the site – earned her just $167.
With record labels themselves owning a stake in Spotify, Rackow reckons that returns are “unlikely to filter down into payments to the artists”. He continued: “It is pretty tough for the average successful songwriter to make a living. It is hard to say that anyone has a right to make a living out of writing songs but if you write songs that people actually want to hear then I think that does give you a right to get some renumeration back.”
Spotify would not comment on the Basca claims, but has continued to insist that as more subscribers sign up and advertising revenue increases then that money will trickle down to the people who make the music.
Here at Music Dealers we are always seeking new and innovative ways and ideas to put your music to work. With that being said we have a great opportunity for those artist/band(s) of the Music Dealers community!
Music Dealers and promotion giant Live Nation are going to be throwing our second industry night at the House of Blues Foundation Room in West Hollywood. Live Nation will browse through our completed artist profiles that have submitted one song and select one artist/bands to be the opening act at their industry event on May 27th. The event is part of a monthly Thursday showcase with Live Nation and Renaissance artist management.
To be eligible for this your artist profile must be 100% complete, meaning accurate and up-to-date picture, bio, PRO, and contact information. We will be calling the winning artist/band via the number in your profile - so be sure that is accurate, so we can let you know that you’ve won.
Keep your eyes peeled for emails and notifications of future opportunities as Music Dealers has some great things in the works for 2010. Don’t miss out!
Thank you for being a part of the Music Dealers community.
Genre: All
Client: Music Dealers & Live Nation
Use: Performance
Due Date: May 19th, 2010 12PM CST (12:00)
Other: Submit your best ONE (1) song and Live Nation will search through your submissions and pick 2 artists/bands to open at their party.
“One of the perks of being an unemployed musician is that you get to play much less bad music.”
Jack Daney
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley
“Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.”
Igor Stravinsky
“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The drummer drives. Everybody else rides!”
Panama Francis
“Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.”
Dizzy Gillespie on playing the trumpet
“Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.”
Duke Ellington
“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
Ornette Coleman
“We never play anything the same way once.”
Shelly Manne’s definition of jazz musicians
“Someone who knows how to play the accordion, and doesn’t.”
Al Cohn’s definition of a gentleman
“Music is a very hard instrument.”
Vido Musso
“The only tune they play in 4/4 is ‘Take Five!’”
(unknown-talking about the Don Ellis band)
“If I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn’t play like Wynton.
Chet Baker
“I’m too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I’m just gon’ keep playin’.
Clark Terry
“A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.”
Herbie Hancock
“To be a musician is a curse. To NOT be one is even worse.
Jack Daney
“Don’t bother to look, I’ve composed all this already.”
Gustav Mahler, to Bruno Walter who had stopped to admire mountain scenery in rural Austria.
“I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.”
Xavier Cugat
“[Musicians] talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art.”
Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his home.
“Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.”
Kirke Mecham, on his life as a composer
“I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.”
Niccola Paganini
“What is the voice of song, when the world lacks the ear of taste?”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.”
Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Michigan.
“If one hears bad music it is one’s duty to drown it by one’s conversation.”
Oscar Wilde
“Critics can’t even make music by rubbing their back legs together.”
Mel Brooks
“Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
“You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow.”
Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket.
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”
Mark Twain
“Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.”
James Gibbons Hunekar
“If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.”
Walter Damrosch on Aaron Copland
“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.”
Sergei Prokofiev
“I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?”
Dimitri Mitropolous
“God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.”
Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player
“Already too loud!”
Bruno Walter at his first rehearsal with an American orchestra, on seeing the players reaching for their instruments.
“I really don’t know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.”
Frederic Chopin
“When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.”
Bob Hope, on comedienne Phyllis Diller
“Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.”
Richard Strauss
“In opera, there is always too much singing.”
Claude Debussy
“Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!”
Giacchino Rossini
“I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that has made giant strides in reverse.”
Bing Crosby
“A ponderous orchestral absurdity.”
Frank Zappa on his rock symphony debuted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
“The bottom line of any country is, what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.”
Tony Bennett
Here’s the call for music at the www.musicdealers.com website. If you want to submit, please visit their website and upload your song right there. I won’t be checking the box this weekend and the song is due by Sunday afternoon. Happy Mother’s Day to all moms!
Due Date:
05/09/2010 - 4:00pm
TV Commercial - Beverage Company
Music Call:
Client is looking to license the ultimate feel good song. The song should be very poppy and anthemic. It should be very energetic and upbeat. Lyrically it needs to have a story telling quality, with lyrics about being happy and feeling good. it should NOT be preachy in any way, but more relaying a very positive feel good feeling through the story. It must be in a MAJOR KEY!
The song should uplift the listener and motivate them to move and be happy, it should resonate with teens especially!
Genre:
Pop
Emotion:
Happy, Energetic, Upbeat
Vocals/Instrumental:
Vocal
Explicit Lyrics:
No
Duration:
Full Songs
Other Info:
Bands to reference are: Coldplay, Black Eyed Peas, U2, Lady Gaga, Outkast. All these bands have very poppy sounds and songs that are uplifting and energetic and can speak to the whole world.
Good Wednesday to you!!! I’ve loved Wednesdays since my first full time job, an office job in the Chicago loop, used to pay us every other Wednesday and on pay day, we got an hour and a half lunch break. That set me up for love with the hump day!
We’re submitting CDs to Pump Audio. Over at their website they’ve got it posted that they need instrumentals. Got some great sounding musical pieces, we will submit them for you. Just upload 2 at the website. LOGIN & upload. Cheers ~ R
Here’s the post:
Instrumentals NEEDED. Please also submit all song variations in addition to the primary song. Instrumental versions are always in demand.
Client looking to license music for an upcoming commercial. They are looking to license a custom tune with a lyric based around “Turn it Up” or “Turn Up The Fun.” They would like original verses leading up to a very catchy chorus based around the “Turn It Up” or “Turn Up The Fun,” lyric. The client wants something modern and fun, something to appeal to adults and kids alike, but definitely NOT playing to kids. Err on the side of a song that would appeal to adults.
The track should not be too Rock N Roll, something with elements of different genres mixed in is best. IT HAS TO BE MUSICALLY DISTINCTIVE WITH STRONG ENERGY – well produced and hooky, but with textures that don’t read straight Rock N Roll.
Acoustic guitar, vibes, vocals, driving rhythm section – interesting combos of things is what they are after.
The song should be in the 2:00 range with a very catchy chorus based around the “Turn It Up,” “Turn Up The Fun” lyric.
Genre:
Rock / with elements of other genres thrown in. Get creative!
Vocals/Instrumental:
Vocal
Explicit Lyrics:
No
Other Info:
Make this track at least 2 minutes long. Not too straight up Rock N Roll. Other creative elements thrown in is ideal!
These will make you smile………
They’re Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:
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The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
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The sermon this morning: ‘Jesus Walks on the Water.’ The sermon tonight: ‘Searching for Jesus.’
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Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
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Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say ‘Hell’ to someone who doesn’t care much about you.
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Don’t let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene Mason sang ‘I will not pass this way again,’ giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So that ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow..
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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be ‘What Is Hell?’ Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered..
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The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
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Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. Is done.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door. -
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The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.. ————————–
The Associate Minister unveiled the church’s new campaign slogan last Sunday: ‘I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.
Here’s a call for music for a paint commercial. Pay is $30000 if you can believe it!!! Worth checking out your song catalog for a fit. www.musicdealers.com or we will submit for you.
Due Date:
05/03/2010 - 8:00am
TV Commercial - Paint Company
Music Call:
Client is looking to license music for an upcoming commercial. They are looking for songs that reference change, transformation, inspiration, endless possibility, doing something new, etc…
They are looking for contemporary music with some attitude, edge, some distortion could be good as well.
The spot is very colorful and playful, they want that to be reflected but with attitude. The track should be medium - fast paced.
The House of Commons during the Committee stage of the digital economy bill, April 2010 [this caption was amended on 8 April 2010. It originally said that the Bill was at the third reading]
Last year it was claimed that 1m Spotify plays of Lady Gaga’s hit Poker Face earned her just $167. Photograph: Axel Heimken/AP
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