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Tom Jackson Featured in New Digital Magazine

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Newly launched digital magazine, Music Industry Pulse, will regularly feature articles by Live Music Producer Tom Jackson and his team. You can order the monthly publication in the iTunes Store here… Music Industry Pulse will offer a wide variety of articles and interviews about the many facets of the music industry. Alexy Guerer, developer of […]

Play for Something Real

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We all need reality checks at times. That’s one of the reasons I like working with charities and non-profit organizations. It gives me perspective in life. You see, sometimes I find myself whining about my steak being overcooked, having to wait in line at airport security, or having to get up early for a morning […]

Victoria Griffith Song & Critique Review Video – Part 2 of 2

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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Victoria Griffith Song & Critique Review

Part of rehearsal is finding the cool parts in your song and making more of them for the live audience. Even the “moments master” Tom Jackson (as he says) “makes it up as he goes!” So watch and learn how you can do this in your own rehearsals. Also, pay close attention to the trade-off […]

Victoria Griffith Song & Critique Review Video – Part 1 of 2

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This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Victoria Griffith Song & Critique Review

A song can be excellently written with a great message – but if you don’t take the time to work on how to present the song live, you will really only have a small part of your audience emotionally connecting with you. In this video, our Bootcamp industry panel help singer Victoria Griffith start thinking […]

What Kind of Vision do YOU Have?

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It might be a record producer or a manager that calls us and asks for some help for one of their artists. Or sometimes it’s a friend who refers an artist to us for some work on their show. But the phone calls and emails typically have the same request: “the show is really good, […]

Camille N Haley Song & Critique Review Video

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Sometimes it’s as simple as bringing more personality to the stage. In a duo like this group, each person has a distinct persona that the audience wants to know. And no matter how good the song, when you bring it live, there are always tweaks that can be made to the arrangement that will help […]

Want to Know What an Artist Manager Does?

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You may already have met my good friend, Mike Smith. He’s been on our Bootcamp showcase industry panel numerous times! But whether you’ve met Mike or not, I recommend you get to know him better through some videos he has available on his website. Mike has been in artist management for over 30 years, working […]

That Was MY Idea

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Oftentimes I hear one member of a band say “that was MY idea,” and the guitar player says “no, that was MY idea,” and someone else says “hey, I’M the one who thought of it”…and I’m thinking “who cares?” One of the most maddening and counter-productive posturing that can happen when I’m working with an […]

Alex Bain Song & Critique Review Video

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This industry panel (Grammy-winner Steve Grossman, author/digital label owner Jay Frank, and Live Music Producer Tom Jackson) has words of wisdom for songwriters everywhere: use a co-writer! Listen in on why. Alex Bain also gets great advice from Tom on how to create anticipation for his song, and how to help the audience see the […]

ECMA 2011 Workshop Part 2 of 2 Video

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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Workshop ECMA 2011

You are involved with your songs emotionally, you’re excited to be onstage, you think it’s a pretty remarkable show. But “remarkable” isn’t when you think it’s remarkable… it’s when your audience thinks it’s remarkable! Oftentimes, the perspective an artist has onstage can be a hindrance to a truly great live performance. In this part 2 […]