Get your music heard
The primary goal of every musician is to get your music heard. Why write and record a song if nobody is going to listen to it, right? Here are a few tips and ideas on how to do it. One of the great mysteries in the music industry is why some bands get signed while others languish in obscurity. What are A&R directors looking for from a band, from an artist, from a song? How do you create a demo which gets noticed by industry insiders? More

Navigating the LDS music industry
The world of LDS music is a pool of finite size. So how do you get your music out to the masses? Among a number of strategies: wRiting, Recording, Retail, Radio, and Reaching Out . . . Understand how the LDS music industry works and ways to get your music to the right people. More

Julie de Azevedo speaks to LDS musicians about the LDS music industry
Questions Julie answers: What is the best way to go about promoting your music and getting it to the right people? What would your advice be to an LDS musician who has a strong talent but no contacts in the industry? How do you define musical success? What are some of the best ways you have found to reach your audience, to get your music heard, and to successfully market your music? What tips would you give to LDS musicians who want to do the same? More

How one LDS band got signed
When the members of Sunfall Festival landed their Garageband.com recording contract, they really had no idea it was coming. They had uploaded the song "I Walked Away" a year ago on the recommendation of some friends, thinking that would be the end of it. After tracking hits on their own website, www.SunfallFestival.com, they noticed a lot of traffic coming to it from Garageband.com. They checked it out and found that their song was sitting at No. 25. It gradually rose, and after four days of sitting at No. 1 they were anxious for something to happen so they could get some sleep. Then they received the phone call. They had become the winners of the seventh $250,000 award the site has given. More

Refresher information - digital audio
Downloadable audio was born from the combination of two technologies - the internet and audio compression. With access to the internet infiltrating homes over the past decade, only one element was necessary to achieve the obvious desire to get music from websites - audio files which could be downloaded in a reasonable amount of time. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (or mp3) was the breakthrough everyone was waiting for . . . Refresh your understanding of digital downloadable music, copyright basics, etc. More

Refresher information - copyright basics
U.S. Code, Title 17, Section 102(a) states that a work must be original to the author and fixed in tangible form in order to qualify for copyright protection, meaning you must put your song down in a form perceived to be permanent, such as on paper or in a sound recording. Once you've done this, your song is copyrighted! More