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C7 task 2 and 3

live music and concert promotion: Live music serves many roles within the music industry, the most important being the economic impact. Not only does live music generate income for artists, but it also generates many jobs behind the scenes such as sound engineering and tour managers. Artists performing live music will improve their skills as a performer, and it helps them to reach new audiences through concert promotion while connecting with fans. Booking agent - booking agents handle live performance opportunities for clients, plans tours, negotiates contracts and fees, and overall venue booking to ensure artists can demonstrate their skills in various environments. Booking agents work very closely with both the artists themselves and band managers to understand availability and any preferences they may have. Live sound engineer - a live sound engineer oversees the technical aspect of sound during live performances. Their main responsibility is to ensure that the sound being produced ...

beginners guides

a beginners guide to music distribution Music distributors have contracts with many streaming platforms such a spotify and apple music, even some social media platforms like tiktok and instagram. This can be a tricky process for an artist to tackle on their own so many will distribute through a third party service. amuse music - distributes music for free, allows artists to upload an image to accompany their singles to help viewers identify their music, artists retain all rights to their tracks, artists can borrow a predicted amount of money from amuse to utilise and further their music career. distrokid - extremely similar to amuse although there are a few key differences: overreach the distribution of amuse as they can place your music in over 150 different music platforms, costs $19.99 for a subscription for the year, doesn’t offer any sync licensing deals unlike amuse. music gateway - free music distribution and sync licensing, distributes to all major platforms such as spotify and...

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60s STYLE GIG Rehearsal: For our 60s performance, we had around 4 weeks to pick and practice a cover song for our assessment. My band decided to cover Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival. During rehearsal time our band made it a point to communicate any concerns with each other. Unfortunately, one of our band members had been absent from college so this was one of the first issues we had to overcome. We came to the conclusion that Charlie would be lead guitar, me on rhythm guitar, Harry on drums and Kam on bass. Up until the day of performance Charlie had been doing vocals to keep everyone up to speed in the song. During our rehearsal we slowly worked verse by verse through the song until we had perfected each section. We had noticed that one of our weak points within the song was our dynamics so we made sure to exaggerate our loud and quiet sections during rehearsals to prepare us for our performance.  Evaluation : Our performance sounded very tight due to us all keeping...