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I’m back on the blog.  My apologies for my absence.  Let’s get it.

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Be A Better Producer Radio!! (sort of)

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Thanks to the good people at Strempad, we have a new feature on The Be A Better Producer Blog.   There is now an audio player embedded at the bottom of your browser at all times.  Just click it to start it up.  I’ll be posting a lot of my favorite old school tracks and new & interesting music I come across in my digging adventures.  Please check it out and let me know what you think & stay tuned.

Jim

PS  I just upped 36 great records and I will add at least 1 per post for now on…

Sample Of The Month…A Sampling…

I’d like to make all of my readers out there aware of something I have been doing in conjunction with Dynamic Producer.  Basically it’s an email blog for sample heads.  I send it out to all the friends & family of Dynamic Producer.  It’s called Sample Of The Month.  Here is a sampling of this month’s sample of the month…

I don’t know why, but for some reason a lot of people have a misconception about gospel music.  Gospel through the late 60s/70s and even the early 80′s was every bit as soulful/funky/sampleable as it’s secular counterparts.  You just need to look a little harder to find it.  Also don’t forget that Gospel is where many of our favorite Soul singers got their starts (Aretha, Sam Cooke, OV Wright, Wilson Pickett, etc).  Here is a little selection of some soulful/funky gospel…

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How To Find Music Submission Opportunities On Twitter!

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Have you ever wanted to know how to find people to send your music to on Twitter?  Look …

Submit Your Beats To Juelz Santana…

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Here is a nice fresh one for everybody…  Juelz Santana put out another call for beats a couple …

Send your beats to Rick Ross…

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Rick Ross put a call out for beats.  So get your best maybach music together and send him …

Submit beats to Nicki Minaj…

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It seems that the lovely Nicki Minaj is looking for beats.  She has posted up on her twitter …

Send Your Beats To Diggy Simmons…

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Diggy Simmons posted this email on his twitter a while back.  Please no cursing in your beats… http://twitter.com/diggy_simmons/status/10924744274 …

Send Beats To Styles P…

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As any other MC does, Styles P needs beats. He has posted this email numerous times, so I’m …

Submit Music To G-Unit For Free…

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Dre McKenzie, head A&R over at G-Unit records, has put out an official open call to all producers, …

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How To Write A Production Invoice…

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 …

The OFFICIAL Rules Of Labeling Mp3′s!

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 Pros & Cons Of Tagging Your Music.

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 …

How To Place Beats: Networking to “Bright Lights Big City”

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.

E-Digging 101… Soulseek Tips & Tricks

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…

How To Place Beats: Small World

“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 …

Music “Industry” Horror Stories… “A Percentage Of Nothing”

This is a gmail conversation I had with a fellow producer a while ago.  This is probably the craziest and most blatant industry rip off scheme I have heard of.  …

Track Anatomy – The O’Jays “Ship Ahoy” (Strings & Horns)

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