Quick tip 53 Patience
When you are starting your career in music, you naturally try to emulate what the big stars do. As a result many of us spend years pretending to be something bigger than we are. We see the path of the…
March 18, 2015
Magical ingredient
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I am back from Sliotar’s St. Patrick’s day show in The Porterhouse. It was the bands 18th birthday. I have played with them for 15 years. It is the longest by far I have ever held on to a job….
Quick tip 52 Know what you want
Posted at March 17, 2015 by
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When you set out to climb a mountain, your target is to reach the summit. You work towards that goal, you practice your mountain climbing skill, you study the route, you gear up for the journey. Sure things will happen…
What makes you happy?
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When your back is against the wall and you don’t know where to go, that is when you are truly tested. Life throws bricks at us, that is when we learn what we are made out of. If you want…
Quick tip 51 Do something different
Here’s one I got reminded of lately. As musicians we need to learn our own field of music. No matter what genre our music is, we need to know what others in the same genre are doing. This is important….
True men
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Sometimes I get tired of screaming against a gale force wind. You shout from the bottom of your lungs and no one hears you. I’m sure you all know what I mean, we have all been there. But I am…
15th of March Blog update
Posted at March 15, 2015 by
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The world is about to go green! And I don’t mean environmentally (I wish…), I mean the St. Patrick’s day is almost here. For the past few days I watched truck after truck stock up the pubs around Temple Bar…
Anytime Video
I’ve had few rehearsal videos waiting to be edit, but trying to get the new albums artwork finished has taken more of my time than I thought. Considering it’s my fifth album, you’d think I had learned something by now…
Quick tip 50 Google & Twitter
Posted at March 13, 2015 by
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SEO is one of those terms thrown around by us in the music marketing game, but quite few musicians actually know what it means. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation, in other words it is the process of making sure…
Quick tip 49 Quick videos
Posted at March 12, 2015 by
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I talked about Perfection v Progress before and how not to get hung up on the meaningless details. One of the most powerful promotional tools you can have, is video. Of course a great quality video is powerful promotional tool,…
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