Saturday, September 29, 2007

Learning about the music industry

Record Contract Basics


This is a portion of a Boston court document showing royalty payments to the Boson music group:
The full document is here.

5 In fact, Scholz sent Ahern two "Artist Royalty Statements,"

the first dated from inception to June 30, 1990, the second from

inception through December 31, 1993. We address the second here,

as being more recent. It listed the following figures:



Total Gross Royalties Reported by MCA Records $6,604,048.14

Gross Royalties - Audit Settlement 170,000.00

Less Producer Share (2,257,862.05)
______________

Gross Artist Royalties 4,516,186.09



less MCA Costs Deducted 508.566.22

less MCA Costs - Audit Settlement (210,000.00)

less Artist Costs (Schedule 1) 4,360,447.00
____________

Net Artist Royalties (142,827.13)

Monday, September 17, 2007

How to get the Personal Website to work

The Visual studio personal website does not work if you are not using Sql Express. Try this:


http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2005/11/30/431896.aspx

Wrapping up ASP.NET Providers and remote setups - Fear and Loathing



aspnet_regsql -sql exportonly MyProvider.SQL -A all

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Learning to Play Electric Guitar



I am blogging the links that I am using to learn how to play the electric guitar.

Guitar Lesson: Introduction to Power Chords ( Heavy Metal )

This is a great lesson showing how to create power chords with two or three notes, with an Black Sabbath Iron Man demo thrown in.

Finger picking and scale exercise.

Guitar Chord Info

Fretboard Notes

Basic theory



The Pentatonic Scale



BOB'S GUITAR LESSONS


and the utube version

The Minor Scale



Ebay link to find a used guitar
Craigs list Dallas for guitars



Boston - More Than A Feeling


A short solo