The classic guide to independent music promotion – now revised and updated. With this manual, you’ll discover that music marketing doesn’t have to be expensive or flashy to be effective. Whether you’re promoting a fast-growing indie band, record label or solo act from your basement, the Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook gives you the tools you need to get the most out of your music career. Within these pages you’ll find: -

• Dozens of simple, high-impact ways to promote yourself, your band or your new release – Tips on how to double your music sales (in 90 days or less) -

• 25 ways to finance your next recording project, music video or major equipment purchase

• The 29 most important elements in creating sizzling music publicity materials

“The most directly applicable, start-tomorrow, creatively inspiring book I’ve ever seen on promoting your music!” ~Derek Sivers~president of CD Baby

“After applying many of Bob’s ideas, and without any wholesaling or distribution, I sold more than 20,000 CD’s and cassettes of my music over the last five years. Using his suggestions, I increased my fan base by 35% in just one year. Pretty good for a non-performing artist who does all studio work. Bob is the master of music marketing!” ~Kris Lee-Scott~Hanai Music.
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Don’t create great music in the dark. Get the Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook today. It’s already helped thousands of artists get more exposure and generate more gigs and music sales. Now it’s your turn to soak up these ideas and put them to work for you. Bob Baker is an indie musician and former music magazine editor dedicated to showing musicians of all kinds how to get exposure, connect with fans, sell more music, and increase their incomes. His other titles include MySpace Music Marketing, Killer Music Press Kits and What Every Musician Should Know About Self-Promotion.

Skip Spoerke of Abington, MA Says…

“It Really Puts the Future In Perspective”
“The music business is one of the few industries that truly takes creativity and self-motivation to a whole new level. The Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook is designed to help us starving musicians and other just-as-hungry industry people set the stage for being the best in areas that our competition is lacking – connecting with our fans and gaining new ones.

It’s a cut-throat world. What are you doing to better your odds? I highly suggest not only reading this book, but also applying everything between the front and back covers of this book to how you do music business. Become the success story.”

Read More Reviews Here

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Todays Musicians need every advantage to stay ahead of the competition. An online presence is crucial to succeeding as a musician and social networking is the best way to achieve this. Videos are huge and You-Tube has become the second largest search engine in the world. Music Videos, until recently have been only a pipe dream for most of us. But now there is Animoto. These guys have revolutionized Music Videos by not only making them affordable but fast and easy as well. In fact right now you can make short videos for free because they are still in Beta. The short video below took me about ten minutes to create from pictures I already had and music From the library of Animoto. Of course you can upload any music you like and you can remix until you like what you see. If you want to make your own video Click Here

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In the music industry today Social Networking is the #1 technique for getting your songs heard. Let’s face it, the internet is here to stay. If your a musician and your not using any of these social networking websites then you are leaving a lot on the table. A network is viral, it’s like a train. Once it is in motion it’s hard to stop. Momentum in music is a powerful thing if you can harness it. Through social networking you can create your own community of like minded people. Friend Feed, Twitter, My Space, U-tube, And Facebook are just a few of the hundreds if not thousands of places you can network.The best thing is it’s free.

This is advertising at it’s best. However free is a relative term, if you consider time as money then it’s not free at all. In fact it can turn out to be quite time consuming. Don’t let that scare you though, most people I know really enjoy it. Once you join at least one of these services then the next thing you should consider is making a home for all the content you create. The best place to keep your content is on a blog. Unlike a web site a blog can be easily updated and there is no need to know any code or computer language. WordPress Direct is a new site where you can create your blogs for free. If you think you’ve never seen a WordPress Blog, your wrong. Your looking at one right now.Get your free blog Here

If you like WordPress Direct you can always upgrade to a paid version. This is really cool. This site will automatically post relavant content by going out onto the internet and finding articles and videos and placing them on your site. Don’t worry they leave all the controll in your hands and will not do anything without your approval. Still Confused? Check out this great video on Social networking.

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You need to showcase your music. Give your fans a way to listen to your music through a music player, embedded tracks, or MP3 downloads. Usually when someone visits your site it is the direct result of an internet search. Visitors that find you online are possibly looking to purchase one or more of your tracks. If you don't give them a way to get them, they might leave never to return. This could result in potentially hundreds or thousands of dollars in lost revenue.

Secondly, having a schedule of upcoming events  is hugely vital to success. On the calender of events make sure you include all the pertinent information that in any way has to do with your band. When your fans find this great resource, they will inevitably return to see what your band is doing next.

A good newsletter is the third element every band should include on their website. Place a sign-up form on your site and encourage your fans to join. This will provide you with the opportunity to communicate to all your fans about upcoming shows and band news. Giving away a bonus track to anyone who joins is a great strategy to build a huge fan-base fast!

A social media strategy is the fourth crucial step in creating a profitable online website. With the popularity of Facebook and Twitter soaring, a band should provide as many avenues as possible to create a social buzz about their music. With a website you can place social media sharing buttons that connect directly to the web properties. This is the best way by far of getting your message out to your fans and potentially getting it to go "viral"          .

 A contact page is needed for several reasons. Most importantly, to provide interested venues a way to contact your band and possibly book a gig. Without this page you will be passed over for other acts or shows. When creating your page, make sure to include a phone number and an email that is hosted on your own domain. It's quite easy to do and should look something like info@yourbanddomain.com. This is much more professional looking and is sure to get you more offers. Building a site on WordPress allows you to easily create customizable contact forms that are professional looking. When gathering prospects information, you should ask for:

• Their Names
• Their message
• How to contact them
• The date of their event
• Special Instructions

Reserve finding out the rest of the details once you are talking to them directly. The elements laid out here are meant to be a basic outline of where to start when building your bands website. Once you get established, you will probably want to include more and possibly monetize your site with some branded merchandise so that it generates some supplemental income for your band.

If you're seeking to build a website for your band, there is really no better way to do so than on a WordPress platform. It is extremely simple to get up and running in an afternoon. I endorse using Band Themes for WordPress. Their themes come complete with all the essential elements of a good Band Site, and anyone who can copy and paste, or drag and drop content can have a site up and running in as little as an afternoon.

Take a look at some websites that were made with Band WordPress Themes

Click on the images to find out more about these themes

Get your guide to Playing The Guitar Fast and Easy and hours of free lessons previously available only at Jerry Wyatt's sold out Guitar Clinics

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Duration : 0:6:22

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This video is meant to help people, not show off

Song names and artists are listed throughout the video.
Songs –
Peace of Mind – Boston
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
Cliffs of Dover – Eric Johnson
Canon Rock – JerryC
I’m Alright – Neil Zaza
Beast and the Harlot – Avenged Sevenfold
Jessica – Allman Brothers Band
Layla – Eric Clapton
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. – Fall of Troy
The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
99 Red Balloons – Goldfinger
Message in a Bottle – Police
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
The NEW Canon Rock – MattRach
Thunderstruck – ACDC
La Bamba – Ritchie Valens
Dammit – Blink 182
Scotty Doesn’t Know – Lustra
Icky Thump – The Whtie Stripes
Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
The Trooper – Iron Maiden
Reptilia – The Strokes
Walla Walla – The Offspring
Smooth – Santana
Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry
I’ll Be There For You – The Rembrandts
YYZ – Rush
Life in the Fast Lane – The Eagles
Last Resort – Papa Roach
Siberian Sleigh Ride – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Knights of Cydonia – Muse
My Sharona – The Knack
Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd

I dropped these songs from the last video:
The Kids Aren’t Alright – Offspring
Light my Fire – The Doors
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
Snow – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
Eruption – Van Halen

Hope this helps, let me know what you think!

Duration : 0:8:58

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Duration : 0:8:0

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Song: Guide you home (I would you die for you)
Song by: Rebecca Kneubuhl and Gabriel Mann

Spyro, Cynder and the “The Legend of Spyro” Triology belong to Sierra

Lyrics:
This is the darkest Night.
Stars have all faded away.
Quiet upon this World.
Through the clouds there is a Light.
We will find a way.

Refrain:
I would die for you.
Cross the Sky for you.
I will send out a light,
burning for you alone.
You´re all I need.
You set me free.
And this Fire will guide you home.

There is an open door.
Somehow it feels so familiar.
We have been here before.
Through this earth forgotten fight.
There must be a way.

Refrain:
I would die for you.
Cross the sky for you.
I will send out a light,
burning for you alone.
You´re all I need.
You set me free.
And this fire will guide you home.

Where our hearts are wide open.
Where our bond is unbroken.

I would die for you.
Cross the sky for you.
I will send out a light,
burning for you alone.

Refrain:
I would die for you.
Cross the sky for you.
I will send out a light,
burning for you alone.
You´re all I need.
You set me free.

[Chorus]
I would die for you.
Cross the sky for you.
I will wait for you.
And I´ll stick with you.
[Chorus background repeat]

You´re al I need.
You set me free.
Set me free.

And this fire will guide you home

Duration : 0:4:35

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The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra commissioned “The Composer Is Dead”, for narrator and orchestra, to educate children about the symphony through a murder mystery. “The Composer Is Dead” borrows from the educational classical music tradition of “Peter and The Wolf”, adding a dash of “Law and Order” and the wry humor one would expect from the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Continuing our partnership with the San Francisco Symphony, the @Google program is pleased to welcome both the composer, Nathaniel Stookey, and the librettist, Lemony Snicket. They have each offered briefnotes on the piece:

“I have been asked if I might say a word or two about the text of The Composer Is Dead, and the one or two words are “Boo hoo.” The story — which, as far as I know, is absolutely true — is so heartbreakingly glum that I cannot imagine that you will be able to listen to it without dabbing at your tears with a nearby handkerchief.”
— Lemony Snicket

“I hope Im not giving away too much by saying that The Composer is Dead ends with a funeral march…Classical composers have always had a preoccupation with death, partly because we are human, like you, partly because we grapple with the mysteries of the universe, partly because death sells records and always has…Someday you’ll be able to tell your grandchildren that you appreciated a living composer before that living composer became, like all composers, dead.”
— Nathaniel Stookey

Duration : 0:58:49

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