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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 5 – Blogging

The fifth chapter in the revised edition of Ariel Hyatt’s book “Music Success in Nine Weeks” is dedicated to the subject of blogging. This could emphasise the importance of the subject to the modern DIY musician and creative entrepreneur. Blogs are web logs that can be used as online diaries or to provide news or […]

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7 ways to find time for your creativity – Part 3: Take More Breaks

I was putting together some new tracks in my home studio a few weeks ago. I was in such a state of flow that when I paused for lunch, I realised it was ten past four. Such days are a delight – the sort of days you are so immersed in your activity that time […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 4

It was 1988 when I got my vinyl copy of ‘Appetite for Destruction’. Little did I know then that Slash would still be churning out great albums two decades later and that most of what us musicians do today is as much about a micro-computer as it is a Marshall amplifier. Back then I had […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 3

Week 3 began with a sunny Sunday. Sandra and I had just been for a pleasant autumnal Sunday walk and upon entering our Cotswold apartment remarked at how the sun was beaming in from the bathroom. Photo opportunity Standing in the bath, jacket still on, slinging on the Les Paul, Sandra started snapping. In awe […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 2

After setting our goals in week 1; in week 2 we were encouraged to set our perfect pitch. At first glance the exercises in this chapter appeared as both an exercise in creative freestyle as well as a challenge in defining ones personal sound. The end of the week saw me immersed in deep personal […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 1 – My Goals

I can’t stress how important goal setting is. If personal goal setting feels like homework to you – there are better ways. You know when you’re goal setting correctly because it feels fun, insightful, empowering and motivating. It may even delight you with a burst of fresh optimism and hope. You don’t know until you […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 1

I’m Rob Lawrence. At around the age of three or four I enjoyed making melodies on the family piano. I had no idea how it operated or what melodies were, I just knew that the affect it had on me was music to my ears. Perhaps not to the ears of others. Despite being of […]

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7 ways to find time for your creativity – Part 2: Automation

In Part 1: Delegation, we began to look at ways to find more time for our creativity by gaining the help from others using the power of delegation. Whilst delegating is perhaps more of a manual task requiring skill and practice, you may find that some routine tasks begin to find their own place with […]

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What is Crowdfunding?

In the old days, even Beethoven had to source funds to compose and play. He wrote pieces for patrons, including Prince Lichnowsky, where he depended upon generosity in exchange for private performances and copies of his work. “Crowdfunding is Beethoven with Social Media” – Brian Meece, Rockethub It’s the latest buzzword yet it’s an old […]

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7 ways to find time for your creativity – Part 1: Delegation

Whilst living in the dry, blue sunny climes of Perth, Western Australia I received a card in my letterbox from a very good friend of mine who was working on a music relations project in Shanghai. We were both working flat-out in our respective careers and far away from our creative playgrounds of our slightly […]

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