Music News And Other Stuff....

I get so frustrated when I read about other people taking weeks, and up to four months earning a great income from home and I have not been able to do that yet. Oh, I make money online alright, but it's not enough to pay off credit cards, or mortgage payments. So right now I'm focusing on my writing so that's why I have not been here in a very, very, long time.
The main website I have been making money with-have made the most  money ever online is now closing shop. Yahoo bought out Associated Content, and now they are ending at the end of this month. The pressure to find a replacement, that will work better is on. So, all the music articles I wrote, I'll be posting once a month until I can finally post about my music. Until then.....

In The Meantime.....

After flipping and flopping all over the Internet, I finally found three ways to make money online that I actually like doing. So, in about a month or so, the Internet marketing world will be in shock as many, many, many thousands of emails will be deleted. I've been doing some every week, but I've collected a lot over the years.

 Anyway, if you are a person who wants to make money online, whatever works for you, KEEP DOING IT! If you make a little money at first, keep working at it until you start to make  a lot. So far, only two things have worked for me, and I will actually be creating a new blog about it. So, the magic thing is getting the amount of money I want to make with it each month. That's what I've been doing. About the music.....

Well, I've got my income tax return two months back, and am now able to buy the right software and the microphone to go with my computer. The only problem is, one of the websites I found that had the most awesome royalty free music on it, I forgot the name of it, and where I wrote it down. *Sigh* I'll find it, so I'm going to take this Memorial Day weekend and do what I'm supposed to be doing.

If I get my work all done, hey, I'll put a video up on Youtube. Until next time....

Music News......

O.K., still the same problem. We have to put our MTV Music Generator music on the back burner. Maybe one day this year, we'll turn into techno geeks and can hook it up properly, but for now we're going to just settle using royalty free music. So, we're still working on that, and I promise you WILL hear something from us this year, and I will get back to telling my story, about how I am trying to "Chase the Life of Riley" on the Internet.

In the meantime, I will be putting more information on this blog this year. Since I'm so busy, I'll post at least once a month until I no longer have to chase Riley and have more free time. So here's what you can expect:

• Music books
• Music articles
• DNJR's Music(Finally, right?)
• Music Links(I've slacked on that in the past, well, no more!)

So expect to hear from me, some time before February ends(since I missed January). 

Music News

The problem with me is doing multiple projects at one time.
We still have not recorded anything yet, BUT we have chosen
a song, and we had a major meeting last night from about
10:15 pm-11:45 am.

I don't want to just put singles online, and ring tones. The
whole point of this blog is to quit my day job and begin
living the life of my dreams. So, we are thinking bigger.

Stay tuned, there will actually be some news August 09.

Music News

Well, this week is the week for recording. We're going
to be looking through songs we've copyrighted and choose
one for a single, and one for a ring tone.

We're going to choose the songs tonight, so before summer
hits, you should hear what we sound like. Finally!

Ready...Set....

I'm taking a day off of my miserable day job
tomorrow, so that gives me a lot of time-
Th-Sun. to attempt to find my memory card,
create some ringtones, give them away, work
on a single, etc. etc.

I have just finished my very first novel, and
a very, very good friend of mine is helping
me with editing it. She is a published author.
More on that later...

Anyway, I can't remember if I have mentioned
that I have found the "coolest" way to start a
business and promote it for free. Even more
cooler is that I have found an easy way to sell
books.

I want to take the easy way of selling books, and
do the same for music. When I do that, I will be
out of my day job this year, sooner than I
ever believed. So let me get to it!
Want to know how to live the life of your dreams?
Subscribe to this blog and follow me.....

Branding Myself

This month will be the beginning of branding myself as
a musician. I read an article from an Internet guy about
a music millionaire, who used his brain and social networking
(free marketing people, stop using adwords!) to create a
name for himself in the music business.

DNJR will follow in his footsteps one day at a time. We
are in the process of finding our music.(a memory card
is missing!!!) We have created the most recent, and
what we consider best, music using MTV Music Generator.

Don't laugh because it's a video game. Brother and sister
duo Kellin and Taryn Manning (BoomKat) got a record deal
creating songs with it. Yep, you heard me right.

While people are being layed-off and living in tents, there
was a major change where I work. A new director stepped
in(they couldn't stand the last one) and she totally killed
my department. Three people having to do something new.
I'm pretty still in 'can't believe it' mode, the other doesn't know
where she's going, and the last in my department, my boss,
is leaving her heart behind. *Sigh*

Well, I can't complain too much, I worked
myself up(not that I had a choice...) to eight jobs in that
department, so now I'm down to one department.
But, I still have at least five jobs there-on minimum
wage, no less! So, when I read an article about how a
guy-a "rapper" became a millionaire from nothing,
(FREE ADVERTISING!!)you KNOW I am going to follow.

I'll carve out my own niche and customize his plan to
one that's right for me, and then I'll leave J.O.B. for
good.

I Have Found It!

This year, there will be a lot of information on this blog
as well as my other blogs(writing, art, games, film).
I happened to be on a marketers list that gave me a
proven plan, that I can do for 'free' so I can finally start
my music career. :)

Another musician/marketer gave me another idea when
he posted a case study on how someone got 14,000 downloads
in just 48 hours using a free website!

So stay tuned. I will be giving away stuff for free, and
revealing a lot of cool ways on how to live the life that
you want.

Music Articles Coming Up....

I know that I have promised you articles, and I have a whole
lot of music articles that I have written on Associated Content.
Starting this week I will be posting one once a week. These include
music careers, American Idol, anything and everything that is
about music. So be on the lookout....

In the meantime, check me out here

Technorati Profile

New Look And More News

As you can see, I made some changes to the blog. There
will be music resources, and other interesting things I
can find that is all about music. I'll be adding more links
as time goes on, but here's some that I am sure will
interest you.

I'll be making one post a week starting next week(wait,
actually I've done two this week LoL!) and here are
some of the things that I'll be covering:
Free Music Courses
Free Music Software
Music Articles
As Usual, me ever Chasing Riley!
Sometimes I wonder, what am I going to do when I have
finally caught Riley? What Can I possibly say in this blog?
After all, that is what this blog is all about. The only thing
I can think of is to help everyone along who also wants
financial freedom. I'm ready, let's hope this chase is
almost finished.

June Update

We are in the process of working on a song(s) that we will be

putting on Myspace, and other websites that allow you to

purchase Mp3's.

I've been neglecting, well, putting music on the back burner

for now, because I am still trying to find quality information

online that will actually work, so I can raise the money that

I need.

There are no professional studios here where I live,

so I have to either record myself, or hire

Discmakers to master our demo. The only way to do

that is to raise the money.

I've just completed reading a 16-page report by Willie

Crawford, a very well respected marketer, and I am

going to follow what he says to do for building a list.

'The Money is in the List!' I have tried doing that with

free list builders that have never worked, so now I am

going to try something new, that Willie Crawford has

suggested.

So, I will keep you updated once a week from now on

of my progress, and sometime this year, I will finally

get my music out online!

The History Of Music-The Greeks

The musical history of the Greeks may be divided into two great periods, the historical, and the mythological. The mythological period covers the entire range of traditions and legends, and extends up to the time when the Greeks began to reckon by Olympiads.
By Mike Shaw

The musical history of the Greeks may be divided into two great periods, the historical, and the mythological. The mythological period covers the entire range of traditions and legends, up to the time of the Olympiads, the date of the first Olympiad being 776 B.C. From 776 B.C. to 161 A.D. is the historical period.
To the mythological period belong the stories of Eurydice and Orpheus. Perhaps the noblest and most beautiful of all the fairy tales of art, the building of Thebes and Cadmea by Amphion, who by his playing supposedly caused the stones and rocks to move spontaneously. The contest between the myth of the Sirens, Apollo and Marsyas, and numberless other stories and traditions with which the Hellenic mind loved to surround, as with many garlands, the art of music.
The poet Homer, provides us with a link between the traditional and historical periods, and in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” are to be found both legend and exact information.
Coming to the historical period proper of Greek music, we cannot fail to be impressed with the broadly moral significance which music possessed for the Greeks. Among the Assyrians, it is to be imagined, music was more or less emotional in character. Among the Egyptians, it apparently shared of the nature of an occult philosophy. Among the Israelites, music was primarily an act of worship; and it is, therefore, to the Greeks that the credit of being the first to recognise that music was highly valuable as an educational resource.
Although not yet an independent art, music probably gained very nearly as much as it lost in this respect, by being made an essential part of the literary and dramatic genius of Greece. Thus, the Greek play resembled more an opera than a play, however, with the music strictly subdued in favour of more dramatic interest. Perhaps the simplest way of making clear the musical aspect of the Greek drama would be to say that a Greek play was like an opera of which the composer wrote the libretto and the librettist wrote the music.
Sometimes the Greek dramatist, as in the case of GEschylus, composed the music to his own tragedies. Sophocles also accompanied the performance of one of his plays upon the cithara (an instrument of the harp kind).
Other than fragments of musical work, which it would be difficult to absolutely accept as authentic, there are no musical compositions of the ancient Greeks now known to be in existence. There has been preserved, however, a considerable amount of Greek literature about music, including the theoretical writings of Aristoxenus (B.C. 300), Euclid (B.C. 277), Nicho-machus (A.D. 60), Alypius (A.D. 115), Bacchius (A.D. 140), Aristides Quintilianus (A.D. no), and others.
Of these Aristoxenus wrote upon the Elements of Harmonics, Euclid wrote an Introduction, to Harmonics, Nichomachus an Introduction to Harmony, Alypius a work on musical notation, Bacchius, supposed to have been tutor to the Emperor Antoninus, was the author of a short Introduction to Music, in dialogue form. Aristides Quintilianus wrote a treatise, “De Musica,” in three books.
These writers, and others, have perpetuated the theoretical systems of the Greeks. Although they give us little or no hint of the practical application of the same, and it is upon their works that the earliest theorists of Europe based their further efforts towards the construction of a musical system at once logical, scientific, and capable of allowing the emotional side of man’s musical nature free play.
Mike Shaw is an organist and keyboard player and owns music websites http://www.mikesmusicroom.co.uk/ and http://www.keyboardsheetmusic.co.uk/
Article republished from Copy & Paste Articles

Music Update

It has been a very long time since I started on this road.
Yes, I did make some money online, but, it wasn't enough
to quit my day job or even put a dent in my debt. So,
I have found out what I want to do. I want to earn
a passive income. Something that I can set and pretty
much forget about.

That is what is going to take me out of debt and get me
out of my miserable day job! I just deleted two of my blogs
today, Eternal Cash and Internet Facts. They weren't making
me any real money, and hardly no one was going to them.

So whatever works for me online is going into this blog,
because it's all about using the internet so that I can do
what I really want to do which is mainly music. After I
have succeeded with that,(this year) I'm branching out to my
other interests which are: Writing, Games, Art and Film.
At that time, I'll do blogs for those other interests, but this
one is all about catching Riley.

I'll be posting my articles on here, and I'll also other
peoples articles on music and the music industry, and
giving this blog a face lift, too. So, be sure to read on about
my journey to catching Riley!

The Latest News

We will be entering a songwriting contest this month, and I have
given attention to my Myspace page.
It's http://www.myspace.com/Dnjr2
I have asked a lot of people to be on my friends list like
Madonna, Sting, Quincy Jones, Take 6,
Beyonce and more and they all said yes!!!

I went from having just 19 or so friends to 141 (probably more
now, because I haven't been there in a few days) within a week!
Most of the friendships are the Official. There are also some Indie
musicians and unsigned artists/bands who have requested me as
a friend. Two "famous" artists/ bands asked requested ME to be
a friend,and that was cool, so very cool! So, that's all for now.
I'll be saying more on December 31st, so look out for that post!

What's New

I am getting back to where I started when I was trying to create ring tones. I'll be doing an article about all the places where you can sell your own ring tones. When it is published in Associated Content, I will be putting it here.

I will also be working with my sister to make a single, of something we already copyrighted-nothing new. I had a problem with the copyright office that was just plain "Weird" so I will get into detail about that much, much later down the road. The best thing I can tell you, is when you want to copyright, go to the website, and check for the fees before you mail anything out. That's it for now. I'll have some interesting stuff for you next week!

Music Careers

I am still seeking that ever elusive way to make money online without doing anything. I am already testing one program, and am about to start another money-making project. In the meantime, I am a content producer at Associated Content. I've joined this March, and have already made over $1,000!

It doesn't put a dent in my debt, but it sure does help out a lot! My computer has broken down three times, so I just got a replacement for "free". It pays to have extended warranties on any product you buy, believe me! Anyway, here is an article that I've written a while back. I will be posting them on here when I am busy in my other pursuits. Enjoy, and join Associated Content and make some cash! http://www.linkbrander.com/go.php?linkid=37081
Here's the article.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/207376/music_careers_television_radio_and.html

I'm Baaaaack!!!

O.K. I have suffered last month and that has put me behind again-as if I don't have enough problems, put some tragedy in my life, and see how better things will go! Life goes on, even though there is a big empty space in your heart. Anyway, I have joined four music websites, and very soon, my music is going to go on them. So then you will hear what I sound like-"Finally"! I will keep you updated on what I am doing. Well, if you want a clue, you can go to this website right here. http://www.linkbrander.com/go/42246 Like I have said previously, I want to create a system where I don't have to do anything but focus on my music-this is part of it.

The Music Business

It’s a sad thing to admit, but, everything I’ve
Learned in music business school didn’t
Amount to anything. I wish someone would
Have told me you don’t have to be signed
To a record label, you can do it yourself!
The old music Industry, has always been
And will continue to be..ugly. I mean, who
Wants to sell a million CD’s and after all
The cuts from, management, lawyer,
Producer, agent, album design, touring
Ect., all you get is a few measly thousand
Dollars? See . http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
For a clear example. It’s pretty bad, folks.
Don’t let the glamour of American
Idol fool you. I prefer the New Music Industry
Business. The one where, the Indies get
Their own CD’s made, sell them and keep
All the profit themselves. The magic words
Are downloads and licensing. That’s all you
Need to know about the music business. If
You can properly set-up a website where
People can download your MP3’s, and
Score your own licensing deals, you’re
Set. Don’t like the j.o.b.? Get a passive
Income In place so you can focus on your
Music. There is a vast amount of quality
Resources to help you along your way.
If you want a career in music, this is
one blog to check out often. I am giving
away a *free* music course by the end of
June, 2006 to all who are interested,
because I need testimonials. What is in
the course? It consists of two parts:
The first part is: The music system.
It is a system that I created that instead
of getting little to no sales, you get a
huge payment for doing something "one time."
part two of the course is Passive Income.
First I'll start with Adsense, then add on
two other strong money-makers. If this type of
course sounds good to you, then opt-In on
my website, Rhy'thmic Exprezions at:
http://dnjr2.tripod.com
I am testing part two and it is working.