Quick tip 91 Work with people
When you try to make a career in music business, you are taking on one of the toughest industries in the world. The odds of you “making it” are actually very slim. So anything you can do to turn the…
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Success v Money
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Let’s talk about success for a bit. And even though this is relevant to pretty much any form of art, I’ll concentrate here in the music business. I get tired and annoyed when people try to measure my success by…
10th of May Blog update
Posted at May 10, 2015 by
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I know I’ve been giving out about this for a while now, but come on weather! Get it together! Living on an island on the edge of Atlantic kind of guarantees that you can not make picnic plans the day…
Heading for the big 40
Posted at May 9, 2015 by
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In my early twenties I remember going through this phase of disappointment, where I realised people around me just like me were becoming adults, but their behaviour did not change what I expected to be more adult like. They were…
Quick tip 90 Punctuality
Posted at May 8, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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So you have saved your hard-earned money to go in to the studio to record your greatest (first) album. This is something that once it is released, will represent you for years to come. You sat down with the band,…
So I Sing
This weeks song is my new favourite, I can’t stop singing it 😉 And suitably it is called “So I Sing”. This song digs in to a subject which I believe any artist have struggled at some point in their…
Quick tip 89 Click track
Posted at May 7, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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Here’s another important recording related quick tip. Unless you are attempting to record live, it is vital that you record a song to a click track. This is a metronome that will keep you in time. I’d hazard a guess…
Lonely soldier
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Lonely solder on a battlefield can be a dangerous thing. Not because he is going to take on an army on his own, but because everyone will underestimate him. And the longer he is left on his own, the more…
Quick tip 88 Recording process
Posted at May 6, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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The past two Quick tips were all about preparing for the recording process. Today’s Quick tip is about the recording process. Way too often I see bands going in to the studio not knowing what the process is going to…
Stop talking about things and get it done
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How many nights in the past have you spent in a bar talking about how you are going to be doing this, that and the other thing? How many of those things did you do? When I set out to…
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