Make Your Music Video and Put It Online

by Robert Safir

With the popularity of YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and other video services, musicians are using the video format more than ever. In fact, making a video and getting it seen is a vitally important part of marketing your music or band. This book will help you learn how to produce a high-quality, high-production value, low-budget music video and let the world know about it through the Internet.

This book will help you learn how to produce a high-quality, high-production value, low-budget music video and let the world know about it through the Internet. First, the book offers suggestions for choosing and recording a song appropriate for video. Then you'll learn the basics of filming the video, post-production editing, music synchronization, and video formats optimized for online video.

This is more than a book about how to make a music video - it's a guide to marketing your music in the 21st century.

Published by Cengage Learning/Course Technology

Marketing and Merchandising for Musicians

Everything has changed.  The old way of "making it" in the music business - get a recording contract, then relax and enjoy the ride while your record label does all the work - is gone forever.

Succeeding as a musician today calls for new skills, new attitudes, and a new approach.  And today, more than ever, how far you get in the business depends on you.

Published by Cengage Learning/Course Technology, 2013

Released on January 10, 2010