Ryan West and Bassy Bob Brockman are two very talented & generous guys. When they aren’t busy mixing hit and/or classic and/or Grammy award nominated & winning records they are busy dropping knowledge on wannabe hit/classic/Grammy award nominated/winning record makers.
“How To Place Beats” aims to give valuable insight into the music industry through the telling of true stories of real beats being placed…Chapter I – Small World
Five years ago, I was in negotiations for a 10 song production deal with an indie label. At the time, I had not sold a beat for more than $150 and hadn’t worked with any known artists. Needless to say, this deal was going to bring in a lot more money than that. After working out the basic terms, I was eager to sign the dotted line. Even though I got a lawyer to check out the paperwork when it came, I was so impatient, I decided to get some free legal advice online first. I did a search for “Entertainment Lawyers” and anonymously instant messaged a random entertainment lawyer to see what he thought about the deal.
I talked to this guy about the deal for a bit then just started to BS with him. Turns out he was in NY. He was also working as a consultant on an MC’s project. Out of all the MC’s in the world this guy could have been working with… … Continue Reading
I’ve been digging through my old gmails trying to figure out which questions I’ve been asked the most over the years. Questions about if, when and how to clear samples …
Have you ever wanted to know how to find people to send your music to on Twitter? Look no further. Through the power of the most powerful search engine in …
I got a good question from a reader named Anthony yesterday. He wanted to know how to write up an invoice for beat sales. For those of you that don’t …
I thought it would be a great idea to iron out a simple format, so whenever you send a track to some A&R, artist, manager, etc, you will make it …
The last few weeks I’ve come across a few discussions online about whether or not you should tag your music when shopping it. So I figured I’d throw in my …
A bunch of people have been asking me how I placed the “Bright Lights Big City” track with Jim Jones. It was pretty easy actually. I Didn’t need a grand scheme or plan (which has worked for me before). I’ll try to make this sound as interesting as possible… but its really not. This is a straight forward example of how real networking pays off.
Soulseek (A peer to peer file sharing program) may very well be the greatest thing in the world for hip hop samples. Here are some tips for power usage on Soulseek…
There are times when you are going through some old music & you get hit with a musical moment of perfection that is so great, you go back and listen to it over and over again. We will call this a REWIND moment.
