20 Blogs for Musicians
One of the nice things with music is how versatile it can be. Adaptable for beginners or experts, playing solo or with others, playing live vs recording, not to mention all the different instruments, in strings, keys, horns and drums, all playing together to a voice or hum.
To help keep in tune or learn something new, here’s a few blogs covering a range of areas, from playing, teaching or creating, to recording, publishing and other music industry updates and changes.
- The Bulletproof Musician: Combining music and psychology to discover and hone your talents and skills.
- Echoes: From CD company Disc Makers, offering suggestions for recording and distribution options.
- The Musician’s Way Blog: A perspective from a veteran in the classical music world, with focuses on the industry aspects, creation and performance preparation.
- The Lefsetz Letter: Famous for being beholden to no one and speaking the truth, Lefsetz addresses the issues that are at the core of the music business: downloading, copy protection, pricing and the music itself.
- Digital Music News: Latest updates and changes from across the digital music industry.
- Hypebot: Discussions of new technologies to use for making and promoting your music.
- Music Think Tank: A group blog with contributing musicians sharing some lessons learned.
- Bob Baker’s Indie Music Promotion Blog: News, notes and ideas on music marketing, self-promotion, artist empowerment and more.
- Musician Wages: Focused on the musician business side, how to make a living as a musician.
- The DIY Musician: From CD Baby, offering tips and suggestions for recording and promoting your music.
- Ariel Publicity Blog: Focuses on the promotion aspects of your music, from performances, email newsletters and other networking activities.
- Independent Rockstar: Includes artist tips, tutorials and tricks for becoming an independent musician.
- A Choral Musicians Blog: Sharing perspectives from a choir conductor and singer.
- Music Theory Blog: Back to the basics, topics range from theory pedagogy to part-writing help to answers to that perennial question, “Why do we need to know this?”
- One Working Musician: The life and times of a Seattle Jazz Trumpet player.
- The Music Notes Blog: A blog for music teachers, including sheet music for guitar, piano, voice, broadway, autism and music and other music education tools.
- The Collaborative Piano Blog: The Collaborative Piano Blog is a site that looks at the art of the piano in ensemble, various piano-related resources and events, the world of classical music, music education, and how to put it all together through technology.
- Guitar Music Theory: Learn more about chord theory, scale theory, chord progressions, fretboard theory and more.
- Irish Music Forever: Irish Music Forever is run by a bunch of enthusiasts who love Irish songs, music and culture, includes updates of new musicians as well as a listing of tunes with lyrics and chords.
- IndieTrak: Home recording & social media tips for musicians.
Using With an Odysen Network
The blogs can be added to the news reader application. This can be done by first selecting an existing folder or creating a new folder, followed by selecting the tab labeled “News”, and lastly adding the news feeds through clicking the “Create” button.
View a specific news feed by clicking on its’ name or view all of them one after another by clicking the “Slideshow” button.
Besides news, musicians can take advantage of documents to share any recent recordings. Upload a new song or audio file by clicking the tab labeled “Documents”, followed by the “Create” button.
Other users the folder is shared with can listen to the music from their music player or directly from the Odysen network. To listen in your own music play, simply highlight the song and click the Download button. To listen from the network, just click the button labeled “Play”, underneath the description.
Summary
While definitely not what one would call a cakewalk, hopefully seeing how a few others are doing it can help get over some of the steeper hurdles towards your greater musical independence.
Learn more about an Odysen solution for musicians or if interested in trying out an Odysen network, you can start with the free Spark plan, including 1 GB of storage for your music and can share with up to 10 Basic users.
Matt | Posted on | January 18, 2012 | Comments Off