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Artist Musician and Activist Stanford Reid (PHUOC).Time Signature
When you think about Rihanna you probably imagine her hit songs, signature dance moves and iconic tattoos. Among other things, this imagery is her signature as it pertains to your reality and perception. In music time signature is the functional pattern that must be honored and/or maintain throughout a piece of music in order to create direction, meaning, and continuity. Some music exists without a written time signature. However every listener has their own intrinsic time signature, when syncopated with the time signature of the music being listened to, creates your sense of rhythm. Now back to Rihanna. In her life and career she has developed and maintained her perceived signatures. You can contemplate how she must have spent her time developing her craft, and even more time maintaining her career. Rihanna has spent much time doing manual labor in Africa. She could have allotted her time otherwise and elsewhere, even hire teams of trained and professional hands to construct schools and medical centers in poor African countries. Rihanna is the one out there, ”shooting in the gym.” Certainly as an artist with the mind of an artist she may draw a special creative inspiration from her inspired surroundings. Priceless indeed. Something she would not have felt or experienced in her daily life as a professional artist. Some songs change time signature throughout, creating emotional variations in the flow of the piece. Think about your daily functions and their inherent time signatures. Some of these are easily adjusted. Like breathing and walking, you can speed up and slow down practically at will. What is there to gain from being debonair? What is the waste of haste?
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Life hustles you if ya don’t apply its lessons accordingly.
We’ve been making a list, so here’s a few:
More people are creating music every day so the majority of marketing methods you learn about may already be outdated or could be within a short time.
Social media is a tier one digital relationship, if you want to empower your community start to think about creating other ways for them to coordinate amongst each other
Advertising services unless stated otherwise only provide one off results, without a strategy in place you wont capture the attention they create for you.
Most companies are selling the last set of keys that worked.
There is no one size fits all strategy, each artist must come up with one that works for their brand.
For a company to work with you regularly your music has to be a profitable business (merchandise, shows, streaming, social engagement)
THERE IS NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL STRATEGY,
Traditionally this is what a label or manager would do for an artist, although with the advent of streaming and digital royalties you have access all of the same tools and many you don’t need. Using the right ones productively to operate a successful music business isn’t hard if you start with good ingredients, below is a list of great resources for any artist or organization getting into the music business! (More will be added each edition).
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