thanks for listening ...
Monday, 29 September 2008
Example Email
Dear Peter,
Thank you for taking the time to listen to our new single.
(MP3 streamed above).
Streaming your music
MP3 Streaming
Make your life (and the person you email) easier by streaming your music like the example below:
Streaming your music for A&R acceptance
AUTHOR Apple Beam Recording Studios
So you want to send your music to management and record labels right? You have joined a database site of some kind and have a massive long list of people to contact, and better still, you have their email addresses so no embarrassing phone calls?
Hold fire on the send button, especially if there is an MP3 attached! Why? Simple, you may burn your bridges before you have even begun, remember even A&R inboxes have a limited storage size and downloading is boring.
Look at it from the A&R point of view, would you want to constantly download files and clear your inbox from hundreds of mails with subjects reading;
“I want to be famous, please listen to my song attached”, or
“I am the best singer in the world, I have attached 5 songs for you to listen to”.
There must be a better way for both you (the artist) and the A&R. myspace is good because you can email a simple link to your myspace site, but even myspace is slow and clunky. The answer is to stream your own music so no download is required, and put it on your own website. Sound complicated? No my friend, it’s simple, and I will show you just how simple it is right now!
You need a free website builder that will allow you to enter HTML code. Two easy to use sites builders are: http://www.blogger.com/ and http://www.weebly.com/
Sign up with one of these and put a bit of info about you or your band along with contact details so the A&R person can contact you if they like what they hear!
Now sign up to fileden.com and upload your MP3. Once you have uploaded your MP3, fileden gives you a link url. This url is needed for the next step.
Go to: http://www.myflashfetish.com/myspace-mp3players.php and choose a player that you think looks nice and click ‘Create Now’. Click ‘Upload’ on the right and enter the song title and the URL you got from fileden.com. Scroll down a bit and enter a play list name ie. ‘Song for A&R to listen to’.
Click ‘save (get code)’ and the MP3 player will generate a few lines of HTML code.
Simple put that in the HTML of your free website. HTML is the language that programs use to generate a function or image. You will need to click ‘custom HTML’ to ‘go behind the scenes’ as it were and copy your MP3 HTML. It’s simple to do, literally copy it in and then switch back to the main view and hey presto, you have a streamed MP3!
So next time you email someone you can include a link to your web page and say something like, “as discussed earlier, I attach a link where you can listen to my song (streamed) and you can contact me if you like what you hear”.
Now that is much more acceptable!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR This article is written by http://www.applebeam.com
Disclaimer: You are free to post this article anywhere so long as you keep all links in tact and do not change the article in anyway.
AUTHOR Apple Beam Recording Studios
So you want to send your music to management and record labels right? You have joined a database site of some kind and have a massive long list of people to contact, and better still, you have their email addresses so no embarrassing phone calls?
Hold fire on the send button, especially if there is an MP3 attached! Why? Simple, you may burn your bridges before you have even begun, remember even A&R inboxes have a limited storage size and downloading is boring.
Look at it from the A&R point of view, would you want to constantly download files and clear your inbox from hundreds of mails with subjects reading;
“I want to be famous, please listen to my song attached”, or
“I am the best singer in the world, I have attached 5 songs for you to listen to”.
There must be a better way for both you (the artist) and the A&R. myspace is good because you can email a simple link to your myspace site, but even myspace is slow and clunky. The answer is to stream your own music so no download is required, and put it on your own website. Sound complicated? No my friend, it’s simple, and I will show you just how simple it is right now!
You need a free website builder that will allow you to enter HTML code. Two easy to use sites builders are: http://www.blogger.com/ and http://www.weebly.com/
Sign up with one of these and put a bit of info about you or your band along with contact details so the A&R person can contact you if they like what they hear!
Now sign up to fileden.com and upload your MP3. Once you have uploaded your MP3, fileden gives you a link url. This url is needed for the next step.
Go to: http://www.myflashfetish.com/myspace-mp3players.php and choose a player that you think looks nice and click ‘Create Now’. Click ‘Upload’ on the right and enter the song title and the URL you got from fileden.com. Scroll down a bit and enter a play list name ie. ‘Song for A&R to listen to’.
Click ‘save (get code)’ and the MP3 player will generate a few lines of HTML code.
Simple put that in the HTML of your free website. HTML is the language that programs use to generate a function or image. You will need to click ‘custom HTML’ to ‘go behind the scenes’ as it were and copy your MP3 HTML. It’s simple to do, literally copy it in and then switch back to the main view and hey presto, you have a streamed MP3!
So next time you email someone you can include a link to your web page and say something like, “as discussed earlier, I attach a link where you can listen to my song (streamed) and you can contact me if you like what you hear”.
Now that is much more acceptable!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR This article is written by http://www.applebeam.com
Disclaimer: You are free to post this article anywhere so long as you keep all links in tact and do not change the article in anyway.
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Brighton recording studios
We're looking to get a recording studio in Brighton early in the new year. 2008 has been a great year for us in London but there's such a fantastic music scene in Brighton and by the sea in the summer .. you can't touch it!
http://www.applebeam.co.uk/brightonrecordingstudio.htm
http://www.applebeam.co.uk/brightonrecordingstudio.htm
Friday, 15 August 2008
Latest Success - Martin King
The instrumental version of Am I a fool that we did for a client called Martin King, has won the June category in a big American song competition!
This will be sent to a large number of record and T.V. companies in the U.S.
Martin says, 'Please give a big thankyou to Colin and Stuart, who are the stars in this track, which can be heard anywhere in the world via internet.'
To access go to http://www.songoftheyear.com/ , go down the left side to past winners, click and go to next page where click on June results. scroll down to Instrumental/ Jazz/ World where the track can be found.
Our recording studio producers (http://www.applebeam.co.uk/producers) are here to help with all styles of music so please feel free to call us anytime on 020 8904 1874.
For more studio success stories from Apple Beam, visit: http://www.applebeam.co.uk/recent-success.htm
This will be sent to a large number of record and T.V. companies in the U.S.
Martin says, 'Please give a big thankyou to Colin and Stuart, who are the stars in this track, which can be heard anywhere in the world via internet.'
To access go to http://www.songoftheyear.com/ , go down the left side to past winners, click and go to next page where click on June results. scroll down to Instrumental/ Jazz/ World where the track can be found.
Our recording studio producers (http://www.applebeam.co.uk/producers) are here to help with all styles of music so please feel free to call us anytime on 020 8904 1874.
For more studio success stories from Apple Beam, visit: http://www.applebeam.co.uk/recent-success.htm
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Recording studio in Brighton
We're deciding whether or not to start something up in Brighton, would be interested to hear from any musicians or bands in Brighton - are there many recording studios in Brighton? What is the music scene like in Brighton?
Check our producers out here:
http://www.applebeam.co.uk/london-recording-studio-examples.htm
Check our producers out here:
http://www.applebeam.co.uk/london-recording-studio-examples.htm
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Scream at videos costs!
We all know videos can be expensive, Just read on MSN that the most expensive video ever is still Janet Jacksons 'Scream', costing Aa whopping $7 Million.
Thankfully for £1299 you can get something more realistic from applebeam! check out:
http://www.applebeam.com/music-video.htm
Thankfully for £1299 you can get something more realistic from applebeam! check out:
http://www.applebeam.com/music-video.htm
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