[Music Biz] – Sustain your music career – nine insights to help you do it.
Building a sustainable career in the music industry is probably one (if not, the MOST) of the things that an artist sought for. Learning what works in for your career could help you achieve a sustainable one. A blog post from www.discmakers.com by Keith Hatschek provides us 9 insights to help you sustain your music [...]
[Tapping Tuesday] – Lick no. 5
Here's a really nice right hand tapping lick to expand your pentatonic repertoire! Take care of the tapped harmonic - you need to manage to mute all the other strings in order for it to ring loud and clear! Here are the TAB and detailed playing instructions for the lick on the [...]
[Music Biz] – Getting Started With Direct-to-Fan
Keeping a good relationship with your fans is an essential part of crowdfunding. It takes a life of its own and you will have that you need from them. So here are some resources of direct-to-fan that Clyde Smith of Crowdfunding for Musicians posted in his blog. http://crowdfundingformusicians.com/2014/10/getting-started-direct-fan/ Click the button below to receive a FREE information PDF [...]
[Music Biz] – Music licensing, publishing royalties, and you
Chris Robley (the DIY-Musician) of www.diymusician.cdbaby.com has shared his many takes on music career tips and tricks. But on this blog he shares a 12-part video on how important music licensing is. Click on the link the view the videos. Enjoy! http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2014/01/music-publishing-licensing-explained-exclusive-video-scion-av/ Click the button below to receive a FREE information PDF about Ioannis Anastassakis' Electric [...]
[Licktionary Monday, Week 4] – A Harmonic minor scale lick (in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen)
Welcome to my new weekly instructional series of guitar licks – a series specifically designed to help you expand your musical vocabulary (your Licktionary!) on the electric guitar! This week's lick is based on the A harmonic minor scale and is similar to something the great Swede Yngwie Malmsteen would play. Use strict alternate picking [...]
[Interview Sundays] – Interview with Steve Vai
Interview with Steve Vai Hey all! Welcome to "Interview Sundays" - a new weekly series of post on ioannis.org In these posts, i will be posting various things that piques my interest during the last few days n the guitar-related universe - anything from instructional videos, performance videos , lessons, interviews and anything [...]