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Taxes for Musicians: A Simple Guide to All the Forms You’ll Need
Well, it’s tax season. Hopefully by now, you’ll have received a number of forms you’ll…
How to Get More from Your Samples Using Transposition
Here’s a step-by-step guide to pitch-shifting, finding the key, and warping. When you’re working with samples,…
How to Tame Your Nerves Before a Big Show
After working hard to create meaningful music, it can be incredibly exciting when your band…
An Examination of the Songwriter and Music Publisher Relationship
We will now examine the music publisher and its exclusive publishing agreement with a songwriter.…
The Musician’s Guide to Taxes: Top Tax Deductions
Editor’s Note: We found this article on how to claim certain tax deductions as a musician,…
5 Tips for Giving Constructive Music Feedback
As musicians, we all have been asked to give feedback on our fellow musicians’ works-in-progress,…
Creating Your Own Default Template in Ableton
Part of having a good workflow is maximizing the time you spend producing. Investing time…
Opening Band Etiquette
I’m currently reading Meet Me in the Bathroom, an excellent oral history of the rock and…
Mix Buss Compression Made Easy
How many of you are completely terrified of doing anything to the mix buss (a.k.a.,…