Music videos are one of the most important promotional tools in promoting your music. At Musformation we are always trying to explain the secrets behind what goes into making a video that helps a band pick up more fans and get noticed. In our series Behind The Video we will be exploring what goes into a great music video straight from our readers experiences. If you would like to be featured in this series please send us your video and an explanation of the techniques, ideas and execution that helped make it successful for you.
NJ's The Exotic Aquatic made a great video for their song "Singularity" in which they simply made a cool video that fits the feeling of a song. After the jump they tell the story of the video.
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for you guys. This makes us feel bad since we are trying to make our
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Too bad they're already sold, but we wanted you to have a peak at the Strymon Brigadier dBucket Delay. These boutique pedals are certainly not cheap but the quality is evident even on this short demo. More sound clips and info here.
The endless debate everyone LOVES to argue about. Here's a short clip that ought to get some tempers flaring again. While the instruments chosen don't seem to be congruent enough to prove anything, it's good enough reason to fight!
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CrowdFunding is one of the more exciting things going on the industry today and PledgeMusic is another company enabling fans to help fund artists they believe-in's lastest ventures. One of their more high profile projects is the new Gang Of Four record which is presently looking for pledges. Check out what they are doing and see if it can help you.
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One of our most popular articles discusses the idea that if you do not comment on the other members of your band's playing it will be poisonous to your songwriting. Astute commenter Cowboy Ted commented on that article saying -
"What do you do when people stop criticizing you or never do it because they 'believe in you' too much?"This is a great questions and a very common problem. Too much trust in a player can lend to an environment of stagnancy and not reaching the full potential of a song's ability. After the jump we will discuss how to avoid this and make sure you always get the most out of your creative team.
Music videos are one of the most important promotional tools in promoting your music. At Musformation we are always trying to explain the secrets behind what goes into making a video that helps a band pick up more fans and get noticed. In our series Behind The Video we will be exploring what goes into a great music video straight from our readers experiences. If you would like to be featured in this series please send us your video and an explanation of the techniques, ideas and execution that helped make it successful for you.
Our first feature is from the band Delorentos, after the jump they will explain how they learned from their past video experiences and stepped up their video game and saw great results from the above video.
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No word yet on the release date, but we're keeping our eyes open for this one.
We often talk about how important it is that your website has a blog with a RSS feed so that your fans and the press can keep up to date with what you are doing. That said, one of the things you can do that is a lot different than what many groups do is start your own music blog. If you are the type of group who gets a lot of remixes and finds a lot of cool links on the net it can be a great idea to start a blog of this content. You can submit your blog to aggregators such as Hype Machine, We Are Hunted and Elbo.ws to help get the word spread about your content. It is easy and fun to do. Groups like Ocelot do a great job of this with their blog Our Time United, by posting when other groups do remixes of theirs, putting up their own singles and showing off the things they are interested in like politics and architecture.
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The Roland TB-303 is an amazing bass sequencer that is instantly recognizable and capable of amazing things. However, it's programming certainly could be easier. This video breaks down some of the more advanced programming details and dives into a bit of pitch shifting as well.
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