I read this article about small businesses that use social media sites to help make their business boom. It made me wonder what musicians are gtting creative and using it to make their music promotion pop.

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The Star Tribune here in Minneapolis ran an interesting story about the new rules of music promotion.
You can read the article from the Minneapolis paper here.

C-Sharp Productions: Minnepolis Recording Studio and Demo Production

If you are a songwriter, you should get a professional song critique before you spend money to have your song demo recorded. It will help you save alot of money in the end. Demos can cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, so investing a few dollars to make sure your song is ready is a very wise investment.
You can get a professional song critique for as little as $20 per song. It will give you an unbiased opinion of your song, so you know you are making the right choice is having a professional song demo produced.

Many songwriters that I work with send me lyrics that are really poems. Good poems, but more poetry than songs. Many times I take the overall theme and ideas of the poem and break it down into song structure. Songs have very distinct sections and structure. Poems are a little more free, and many times have too many words. A good producer will take your words and make them really connect with your audience.

I can help you turn your poems into songs. I have been recording song demos for almost 15 years. I will take your lyrics and turn it into a great song structure and create high quality music tracks. I will also find a singer than can bring your words to life.
C-Sharp Productions offers song demo services.

if you are a songwriter, you want to get the best song demo possible. There are a few things you should do in order to help make it a success.
If you are hiring a producer or studio, like my studio, C-Sharp Productions you should:
1. Have a neatly typed lyric sheet
2. Know the style you want the song. What are similar artists, or songs?
3. Understand that it is a demo and not necessarilly a full blown CD project
4. A rough recording if you have lyrical ideas, or the song mostly created
5. Choice of Male or Female Singer
6. Money Order or Credit Card to pay for the production services.

C-Sharp Productions has been recording songwriter demos for almost 15 years. Even if you just write lyrics, we can put music to your words.
http://www.sharpmusic.com

I wanna be your boy…..

Download my new song, “Boy”

It was recorded in my Minneapolis recording studio.

Download my new song, “Minneapolis Hot Summer Nights”
It was recorded in my apartment in the Twin Cities.

I have more dance songs in the works. Once I have 12 songs I will release all of them online. – Chad Sharp

This has been a pretty productive 4 days. I have completed two complete new songs, and I have written some more lyrics for some more new songs. My new music project is coming along pretty good. I may be done before I thought!
This whole project is a lot of dance tracks. I want them to be fun and make you want to dance. – Chad Sharp

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So in one of my last posts I had said that I want to get 10 brand new songs recorded by October 1st…Well I think I need to reevaluate that. It is already the 13th of September and I have only really completed tracking 1 new song. I still need to make some edits and mix and master it. So I am going to push out my completion date for the music. I am now revising my date to be February 1, 2010. It is hard to find time when you are as busy as I am….work, sleep, music, work, sleep, music….unfortunately work and sleep beat out music sometimes.
I have been busy working on other musician’s and songwriter’s projects, so I basically hoping to complete one of my own songs every two weeks. That puts it out at February 1. I have also decided that I am pretty much going to release the project almost entirely online. It will be something fun I can do online when I am not promoting my demo recording business.
The first song I have done for the new project is a dance song called, “If I Close My Eyes.” It is a fun, upbeat track that is a feel-good dancy number.

I am still in the more ‘conceptual’ stage of my new music project. I am kind of hesitant to even call it a “CD.” Since I am not 100% sure that I will release it as a CD. It may just be a full online release through digital retailers. That would save quite a bit of money on the production costs. I have been formulating a few ways to actually try to make some money off of the songs. The game has changed. It isn’t the usual model for musicians anymore. It is exciting, yet challenging at the same time. I think the indie artists are running into the same issues that the majors are. How do you profit from your passion? I have some ideas that I will share with you as I actually start implementing them. What is a little exciting and kinda neve wracking at the same time is that the promotion of this music may actually have an effect on what the music is like. It really depends on how the music comes out and what the songs are about. That will actually help guide me on how I market the songs online or off.