Artist Insider 11.5: Dennis Dearing – One-Man Band | June 27, 2006
Insider: Dennis Dearing
Today is education and business day.
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- How do you work on improving your craft?
- What trade magazines would you recommend?
- Who do you follow, study, or have been mentored by?
- What is the legal structure of your production company?
- Any tips for someone who is looking to start a company?
- Do you outsource any professional services?
- Any suggestions for creative types who want to build a business?
- How can people contact you?
Tomorrow, new interview with someone who had previously been mentioned on the show.
Running time: 10 minutes 57 seconds
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Artist Insider 11.4: Dennis Dearing – Who | June 26, 2006
Insider: Dennis Dearing
Lots goes into making one single CD quality song, today Dennis talks a little about it form a producer’s point of view.
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- What is producing like?
- How do you explain the role of a producer?
- What is the range for a lower budget song?
- What else determines the budget?
- Is it hard when an artist hears that they are looking at wasting money?
Tomorrow is the last day with Dennis, the foci includes improving his craft, business structure and practices, and more suggestions.
Running time: 11 minutes 11 seconds
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Artist Insider 11.3: Dennis Dearing – 42.7% | June 23, 2006
Insider: Dennis Dearing
Co-writing, a magical time, is the main focus today.
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- How did you get the gig as a writer for Benson Music Group?
- How did you get that introduction?
- What exactly is a draw?
- With writing, is it either you have it or you don’t?
- When co-writing, did you normally have collaboration agreement?
- Have any of your co-written songs been used in ways you don’t approve?
After a break for the weekend, we will return with a segment on producing, where Dennis will wear his producer hat and tell about that process.
Running time: 10 minutes 33 seconds
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Artist Insider 11.2: Dennis Dearing – Different Animal | June 22, 2006
Insider: Dennis Dearing
Today we focus on session work. A side of the music industry most outside the industry does not know about.
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- Do you do a lot of demos in one day?
- How much would a musician receive for a demo session?
- What is the next level up from demos?
- How busy are top session players?
- For one song, about how much are the musician fees?
- How common is musicians not playing in the studio recording?
- How did you get into writing?
Next free segment focuses on song writing.
Running time: 10 minutes 29 seconds
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Artist Insider 11.1: Dennis Dearing – Producer Extraordinaire | June 21, 2006
Insider: Dennis Dearing
This first Free Segment with Dennis focuses on his college years, where he played on a record, played at Opryland, and toured with a band.
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- Did you do a lot of guitar playing in High School?
- What opportunities did you get because of attending Belmont?
- You know how to play Make Me Ready?
- What all was planed out when you were touring while in college?
- Pointers for potential session players
- Could you start with the basics of session work and build up to advance levels?
Tomorrow focus shifts to demos, both the creation process and as a career path.
Running time: 11 minutes 43 seconds
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Artist Insider 10.5: Laura Clapp – Personal Happiness and Bunnies | June 20, 2006
Insider: Laura Clapp
This free segment focuses more on the future and some aspects of taking a song from creation to being on a CD.
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- What is the future for Laura Clapp?
- How would someone get intouch with you to book you?
- How do you get onto the college circute?
- Any website suggestions?
- Have you ever google’d yourself?
- How did your publishing deal with ParMusic work out?
- Do you have an advance with them?
- Do you work with the artists about setting up demos?
- Who pays for the demo costs?
- When is your next gig in Nashville?
Tomorrow we will start a new interview with a record producer.
Running time: 11 minutes 41 seconds
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Artist Insider 10.4: Laura Clapp – Taking Responsibility | June 19, 2006
Insider: Laura Clapp
Welcome back, we hope you honored your Father yesterday. This segments Laura shares who she works with, why, and a little about networking.
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- Do you want to tell us anything about your next album?
- What do you say to people who don’t have a network?
- When you start an album, what do you start with?
- How important is local radio play?
- Who do you work with as an artist?
- How is booking yourself?
- Do you have to learn to deal with rejection?
- How do you find venues?
- Do you have a standard agreement you send out?
Tomorrow is about the future, demos and gigs in Nashville.
Running time: 12 minutes 04 seconds
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Artist Insider 10.3: Laura Clapp – Acoustic | June 16, 2006
Insider: Laura Clapp
Today moves more into talk about the workings of the established music industry and finding endorsement deals.
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- Gear talk – How did you get a endorsement from Alvarez?
- Any suggestions for getting endorsements?
- What do you do with ParMusic?
- What’s a song pluger?
- So, you go to people and play the song?
- How do you find opportunities?
- What happens if a person wants to use a song?
- What is the typical timeframe from a song being on-hold to being cut?
- On hold does not garrote it will be on an album, correct?
- Do you send out mechanical licenses with ParMusic?
- Please talk a little about your CDs
- That first CD was just with friends at Berklee?
The free segment for Monday focused on getting airplay; both on the airwaves and live.
Running time: 11 minutes 04 seconds
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Artist Insider 10.2: Laura Clapp – Let’s Write | June 15, 2006
Insider: Laura Clapp
Today we start on one of Laura’s projects and end on practical services that can help an artist with some of their struggles.
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- What is the process of directing a ChickSinger Night?
- What do you thinking about when selecting the acts?
- Sonicbids
- Exactly what is a “Kit”?
- Is there a charge to generate and submit an EPK?
- How do you further your education?
- How do you split of a song when you co-write?
- How do you decide who to co-write with?
- Are you more of a lyric writer or a music writer?
- Do you write a song in one sitting or over time?
- Why did you decide to release music on the Podshow Music Network?
- Matthew Ebel
- Daily Source Code
- Tell us about iTunes and other downloads
- CD Baby
- What is the process of getting a song online?
- Soundexchange – digital broadcast of radio
Tomorrow we talk about going from a written song to a CD and CD productions.
Running time: 12 minutes 01 seconds
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Artist Insider 10.1: Laura Clapp | June 14, 2006
Insider: Laura Clapp
You have heard some of Laura’s music, even if you did not know it. We use part of a song by Laura Clapp for our intro and exit music. She has experience in several aspects of new marketing available for music artists today.
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- How did you get interested in Music?
- Growing up, what did you do musically?
- Julie Harris
- Where did you play?
- Why did you go to Berklee?
- Why did you decide to move to Music City, USA?
- What were your first impressions of Nashville?
- What were the first steps that you took?
- Did you have a second job at first?
- Who hired you to do the demos?
- Did it pay enough to be a full time job?
- Do a lot of people do the that?
Next we move into talk about Chick Singer Nights, co-writing, the Podsafe Music Network, and more.
Running time: 10 minutes 57 seconds
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