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Archives for March 2012

Stellar Corpses Music Makeover Part 4 Video

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Stellar Corpses Music Makeover

If you want your audience to sing along with one of your songs, you need to know what and how to rehearse so the entire audience gets involved! After all, you want to create a moment with the audience participation. In this video, Tom works with a band on a short section of their song […]

Sami Davis Wins Best Performance Prize

Sami Davis, a student of our Online Academy of Live Music, walked away from a recent karaoke night contest with $100! Herman’s Hideaway in Denver, Colorado hosted a “U Rock” live band karaoke contest earlier this month, and Sami was on hand to take home the prize for the “Best Performance” category. About her performance, […]

How to Write Songs that Stick!

I wanted to let you know that Morgan’s free mini-course, Unforgettable! How to Write Songs that Stick!, is helping lots of my readers. A lot of people are taking him up on the special “Tom Jackson” discount on his big course-book, Strong Songwriting, also. Here’s what one person had to say about the course-book: Dear […]

The 3 Hallmarks of a Successful Music Career

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby. As someone who works as a music career development author and coach, I find Mr. Cosby’s quote encouraging, because I don’t know the key to success either. However, what I can offer is a list […]

Stellar Corpses Music Makeover Part 3 Video

This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series Stellar Corpses Music Makeover

Watch this video to learn the basics of how to avoid “stealing focus” from what’s important, how to break down and rebuild parts of the song, and how to correctly take your audience to the payoff. Tom also demonstrates a bail out and talks about the appropriate time to put pressure on the audience. Backstage […]

Tom Jackson at New Music Seminar New York 6/17-19/12

The New Music Seminar is the meeting place of music visionaries, upstarts, and disruptors who are building a new music business. These architects of a sustainable music business include digital solutions to help artists create, expose and monetize in new and innovative ways. Companies like Pandora, Spotify, SoundExchange, Apple, YouTube, FaceBook, ReverbNation, IHeartRadio, Sirus/XM, Nimbit, […]

How to Die a Slow Death On Stage

That title is scary, isn’t it? You know I teach about “moments” onstage. The audience longs for them. They come to concerts precisely to experience them. But the moments you don’t want to have are those dreaded “crickets” moments. That’s when you get 20 seconds into a song and you can feel the steam leaking […]

You know my name, look up my number…

– Or – make sure you write down where that name, number and business card came from. That old Beatles B side was a favorite of mine! As we get in to the bulk of the conference season with everything from Folk Alliance to SXSW and tons of other conferences, showcases and then immediately followed […]

Live Music Lives

I heard Elton John say in a recent interview on Good Morning America, “if you want a career now, you have to play live.” Publicity & Cyber PR guru Ariel Hyatt said in a recent blog, “Let’s never forget, it all starts with the greatness of your music and live show. “It will be more […]

Tom Jackson Live Webinar on 3/27/12: Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry

Tom Jackson wants you to learn how to emotionally connect with your audience. It happens when you’ve created moments for them! Get your Backstage Pass now, so you can hear from Tom himself about how to create 2 of the moments he says are crucial to your set list: the Fun Moment and the Touching […]