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1 - The demo - breaking through: history, attitude and your demo
What is demo?
The demo: A multi - purpose tool
1. What is Label? ... and what the hell does A&R stand for anyway?
What is A&R?
What is a Record Label? Major vs. Indies
Record Label Architecture
Independent Promotion: More Indies
Summary
Workshop
2. Three case studies in breaking through: Nirvana, Def Jam, and Bob Dylan
The Essential Quality in an Artist
The problem
How Artists really get signed: A signing drama
The solution
Case 1: Nirvana - How Nirvana got their record deal
Case 2: Def Jam Recordings - The importance of the visionary at the label
Case 3: Bob Dylan - How Dylan got his record deal
Summary
Workshop
3. Demo track selection and sequencing: Start with the songs
How A&R people listen to demos
The Importance of Song Sequence: put your best song forward
How many songs, and why
Workshop
4. Recording Your Demo: getting it down
The recording studio
A schedule for making the most of your studio experience
Costs associated with studios
Home recording
Pro Tools
Home recording tips
Copryhights and demos
Workshop
5. Packaging and presenting your demo: All dressed up and everywhere to go
Elements of a Successful demo package
What's Inside the envelope
Summary
Workshop
2. The Team: Agents, Managers, and Lawyers
6. Performances and booking agents: The live life
How performing impacts all facets of your career
Maximizing the gig
Gigs outside your home town
Booking agents: how they work and when you need them
Building a following
Summary
Workshop
7. Management: Finding it and making it work for you
The three "Must - Have's" of Management
The Importance of Money: How management gets paid
Managers and publishing
Finding the right manager
Labels and Artist managers
Summary
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8. Lawyers: Protecting and Serving
The role of lawyers
When to get a lawyer
Finding the right lawyer
How lawyers differ from managers
Summary
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3. Additional Players - Giant steps: independent publicity and promotion, publishing, distribution, and labels
9. Publicity and Promotion: getting the word out
How publicists work
Maximizing your publicity experience
Publicity costs
Radio Promotion
When usigned artist should consider Indie promo
How promotion can help you get a deal
The cost of Indie promo
How to get and keep radio play
When to Hire an Indie Promoter
Summary
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10. Publishing: Rights and wrongs
Mechanicals
Why Publishers want you to get a record deal
The "Controlled Composition" clause
The importance of the Mechanical
Administration Deals
Co - Publishing Deals
Syncs and Placements: your Music in Movies and TV
When to get a Publishing deal
Publishing Pitfalls
Performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC)
Summary
Workshop
Distribution: Moving Product
How Distribution Works
Co - op
Distribution follows marketing
Starting Your Own Label
P&D Deals: Distributors as Marketers and Manufacturers
Why Distributors Avoid Unsigned Artists
When to Consider Distirbution
One - Stops and Rackjobbers
Summary
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12. Contracts: getting the best deal
The Royalty deal
How Royalties are calculated
Profit Sharing / Joint - Venture Deals
Term ("Licensing") Deals
Demo Deals
Important Contract Points
Summary
Workshop
13. You've got a deal! or did you know that "Utopia" Means "No Place?"
What happens when you get signed
Issues surrounding scheduling your release
Atwork
Working with Your A&R Person
Key People at the Labels
Keeping the Label Focused on You
Summary
Workshop
Appendix A: Sample contract
Appendix B: Suggested reading
Appendix C: "From the Field" Bios
Index

Foreword
Outlining hands (correlating fingers with staff names)
Sight reading discovery
Sight reading drills
Five-finger position in C Major - The woodchuck
Phrase development - Snug as a bug in a rug
How to count - Hannah from Montana
Rhytmic development - Crunchy flakes
Musical terms - Swinging along
Half steps and whole steps (Sharps, flats and naturals)
Accidencials - Tick-tack-toe
Five-finger position in G major - A nutty song
Crescendo and diminuendo - How to transpose - Down in a coal mine
AAndante and revew - The Kangarooster
Music appreciation - Beethoven - Bells are ringing
Arm phrasing touch - Steady Eddie
Bringing otu the melody - The Goofy gopher
Extend the right hand position - The dandy lion
Left hand development - Capitain silver
Piano quiz no. 1
Transposing - Jumping Beans
Technique - Warm-ups
Memorization - The snake dance
Major scale pattern
Scale writing
C major scale (Ascending) - The escalator
Broken chords and triad - The Sphinx
Five-finger position in F major - Tune of the tuna fish
Extended R. H. position in F major - Which is witch?
Contrast in music
Reading notes as well as finger numbers - Brahms' Lullaby
Recital piece
Left hand accompaniment patterns - Riding on a mule
Five-finger position in D major - Cycles
Common time
Extended R.H. position in D major - The movies
Intervals: The third - At the ice cream counter
New hand position (B flat major) - The picnic
The pianoforte and fortissimo - The life guard
Staccato study - The steam iron
Hand position: Key of A major - The Pet shop
Repertoire - The rodeo
The dotted quarter note in 4/4 time - Motorcycle police
The dotted quater note in 3/4 time - Schubertz Waltz
Reversible melody - A musical trick - The Cheerleader
Changing keys - Birthday greetings
Piano quiz no. 2
Certificate of promotion

Sight reading drills
Left hand echoes - Play ball
Syncopation in 3/4 time - Music Boc (Liadow)
Shifting melody from R.H. to L.H. - Stalactites and stalagmites
Different kinds of accents - The country fiddler (folk dance)
Arpeggio recital piece - The elevator
Music appreciation - The harpsichord player (J.S. Bach)
The folk song - The year 1620
Syncopation in 4/4 time - Short'nin' bread
Crossing hands (L.H. over) - Magic flute (Mozart)
6/8 time - The wishbone
Changing keys (Major to minor) - The campbells are coming
A classical recital piece - The dress parade (Schubert's "marche militaire")
Key of E-flat major - Little brown bug
Fermata - Sailing
How to practice - (Descriptive music) The clothes line waltz
Piano quiz no. 1
The repeat sign - legato thirds - Monkey sees! Monkey does!
The right hand positions - The ventriloquist and his dummy
Da capo al fine - Here we go for a touch down
Tarantella story - The spider dance
Sixteenth notes - Wun Long Pan
Two note slurs - The hair stylist
Chord inversions - The dentist
How to use the damper pedal
Aplying the pedal to broken chords - Shadow pictures
Pedal study - Strange Lands (Robert Schumann)
Chord recital piece - Hear those lovely bells
Contrary motion - Fire engine
Wrist staccato - A fine state of affairs
Key of E major - The telegraph operator
Interweaving hand legato - Over the hurdles
6/8 time in the key o B flat - The daily comics
Chromatic passages - Putting salt on a bird's tail or how not to catch a bird
American folk song - On the levee
Piano quiz no. 2
Certificate of promotion
Music dictionary

Foreword to teachers
Foreword to parents
Section 1: fundamentals
How the fingers are numbered
Finger number melodies
Black key groups of two
Black key groups of three
The musical alphabet
Letter name melodies
How music is written
Notation melodies (notes)
Section 2: Application
Right hand position (C,D, E) - The Speed Boat
Left Hand Position (A, B, C) - The Computer
Alternating Hands - Bone Sweet Bone
3/4 Rhythm - dotted half note - Oscar the Octopus
Four Notes Up and Four Notes Down - Deep Sea Diving
Changing Hands within a Measure - Old Mc Donald
New Note G in Right Hand - The Ice Cream Cone
Natural Accents - The Wind Sock
Five Notes Up and Five Notes Down - Mr. Frog Is Full of Hops
Introducing 2/4 time - Porcupines
Presenting rests - Chief thunder cloud
Omitting finger numbers - Gooseberry goose
Eighth notes - The Happy halibut
Left - hand crossing over - The Funny Bunny
C and G below Middle C - Submarine
The Sharp Sign - The Dragon
Key of G (F Sharp in Signature) - Myrtle the Turtle
Leger Note D in Left hand - Power Shovel
Combining Hands - The Eagle
The Tie - The Circus
White Key Melodic Skips - A Riddle
New Hand Position in left hand - Donkey party
New right hand position - Watchman's song
Another new right hand group - Hot Dog Stand
The flat sign - The Wren and the Swan
Key of F (B flat in signature) - The Jet Plane
Leger Note B in right hand - Pretty Polly
Chords in right hand - Monkey Business
Accidentals (Sharp, Flat and Natural) - Eskimo Boy
Staccato - The Detective
Octave higher sign - Lightning Ranger
Chords in left hand - The Streamline express
Piano Quiz
Certificate of Promotion

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