Careers in Music Recording

January 23rd, 2010 | Posted by admin

Economic trends means there may be a number of students out there who are weighing options after graduation. Is college an option? Or are there other ways to get into the music recording business?

Working in the music recording industry means a chance to work with top recording artists and musicians. There are many different careers in the industry. Music producers guide the shape of sound, while a sound engineer captures sound.

The music business is trending towards moving online, so it is really important to learn as much about the music recording side of the business as you can. Digital music distribution over the Internet has really changed the landscape of the music business. Music technology has also grown quite a bit. Today’s musicians must have knowledge about technology — some of which is software. The virtual world means having to be famaliar with software, plus there is still some hardware based technologies.

Donny Baker is a music producer and studio engineer at Elephant Symphony in Glendale, California says he likes teaching via the mentor approach because once his students graduate, they are engineers. Technology is constantly changing but in this industry it is changing backwards.

Baker’s mentor approach works, and the best part is that you’ll get a real world learning experience in a New York music recording school or one in Los Angeles.  Read more...

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10 Top Tips To Become A Music Video Dancer

January 23rd, 2010 | Posted by admin

If you want to become a music video dancer there are many things you can do that will make people take you seriously and enhance your prospects. Follow these tips and you won’t go wrong.


1. Start going to a dance studio. The bigger dance studios will often have the best dance teachers so you should try and go there, if not many times a local dance studio will have some very good teachers.


2. Attend a dance college. Doing a 3 year course at a professional dance college can give you a strong all round training as you’ll be dancing all the time. Many jobs will also only accept applicants who have been to an accredited dance school.


3. Seek out the best dance teachers. Whatever styles of dance you choose to specialise in seek out and learn from the best teachers. They can teach you things that a non-expert wouldn’t be able to.


4. When you get good start attending dance auditions and castings. This’ll give you an idea of the process and the standard you’ll have to get to.


5. Speak to other successful dancers who are doing well and ask them for advice. Many times they’ll be happy to give you some pointers. Even if you don’t ask them for advice, just by talking to them you’ll get ideas about how you too can improve your prospects.  Read more...

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