Quick tip 30 Facebook
Here’s another handy new feature the good people at the Facebook have come up with. I’ve seen this rolled in the past month and eagerly waited to get my hands on it and today was the day. So let’s get…
February 13, 2015
Deeper Than Before
Well it’s that time of the year again when all the lovers get all soft and mushy, the restaurant bookings (and prices) go up for one night, ridiculous amount of roses are sold through the shops… Obviously I am talking…
Quick tip 29 Business card
Posted at February 12, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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It never stops amazing me how impressed other musicians are while exchanging contacts and I pull out a business card. It was one of the first things I made, after my website when I started this journey. It’s not something…
We do it because we love it
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Once again I sit here well past midnight, wondering what I should write about. There are days when text just flows out of me on to the page (or the computer screen, to be precise) like verbal diarrhoea from my…
Quick tip 28 Statistics
Posted at February 11, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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Lets face it, statistics are boring, but most of us musicians still stare at them all the time. You think you don’t? When was the last time you checked how many followers you have on Facebook? or how many likes…
The journey of a great artist
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It’s funny how our musical journey can take us around the word in a search of where we belong. I often see young bands, eager to fight the good fight. They believe with every cell in their body that they…
Quick tip 27 Learn the Blues
Posted at February 10, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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I have dabbled my hands on a quite many styles of music over the years. Acoustic guitar is my main instrument, the extension of my hand. I love it! From time to time I like to make some noise on…
On Songwriting Part 6
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When we listen to music on a most basic level, it needs to do one of either two things, evoke an emotion or give us an experience. If it does neither, we just simply won’t care. As a songwriter this…
Quick tip 26 Music Royalties
Posted at February 9, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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If you write music and perform live, you should register with your local music rights collection agency right now! They collect money for you every time your music is played in any form. Most young bands don’t even think this…
Focus
I’m just back from a show with Sliotar as I sit down to write this. I am buzzing, it was a great show. But I am almost scared to say this out loud as not jinx it, and at the…
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