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Why The Music Business Model Doesn't Work... For You.

Michael C Smith, November 12 2022

I recently read...err listened to Robert Kiyosoki's best selling book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." The book had such an impact on me that I'm reading it...I mean listening to it for a second time and will probably listen to it for a third time. While there are many takeaways from the book, the overall story line is a long explanation of how the rich get...

Monetizing Music

Why Sampling isn't worth your time...unless you're sampled.

Michael C Smith, October 12 2018

Made popular in rap music and later expanding to other genres, sampling is the practice of taking a piece of existing recorded music and inserting it into a second derivative piece of music. Producers who sample may take a large recognizable section such as a chorus and insert it into their work, or very craftily "chop" the sample by rearranging di...