If you're an unsigned musician and you're NOT on MySpace, then you're doing something wrong. True, it may not be the most popular social networking site amongst certain groups of people, such as school children for example, but those stories you've probably heard about A&R people searching MySpace: they're actually true.

Getting your music played on radio is an absolutely essential part of building a following and bringing yourself to the attention of people within the music industry .... but it can be very difficult to get noticed by radio stations, who only seem interested in artists that have sold millions of records !! Radio Promoters can be your best friend in this situation, as it's their job to get new artists on radio stations nationwide. 

As many of you will know, I've been a successful songwriter/composer & producer for over 10 years now. I took a break from writing music for a few years, but have recently started working on a few new projects. During my time "away" from writing, the Internet has gone from being a useful toolto absolutely essential .... and now, pretty much redefining the music industry as we know it.

I've moved around the country quite a lot over the past few years:
5 houses in 5 years. In one of the first moves, I somehow managed
to lose a bunch of lyrics that I'd been saving for future songs !
That was really annoying ...

Now, if I'd been using Virtual Studio System's "Lyricist" software,
then that wouldn't have happened.

I wanted to tell you about my new book, aimed at unsigned musicians just like you. It's called "How To Get Your Music in Film & TV" and is the only book of its kind. Published by Music Sales (the largest publisher of music books in the world) it gives you all the information you need to find Film & TV projects that are looking for music from unsigned artists ... and then tells you how to sell it to them.

Usually a Session person is paid a flat-fee for their time (& talent).

To answer this question, you must first look at why someone would even want to do this.

Income from a song or piece of music can be split in any way AS LONG AS THEIR IS A WRITTEN AGREEMENT in place between the parties. If there is no agreement, then income would be split equally between the parties.

Traditionally, music represents 50% of a song and lyrics 50%: with the increased importance of production over the past 20-25 years - not to mention the fact that vocalists often write the vocal melody but not chords - it is not unusual for melody to be 1/3rd, lyrics to be 1/3rd and chords/arrangement to be 1/3rd. Anything is possible but the default arrangement is 50/50.

Many people put in too much information when writing a biography - or at least, too much of the wrong kind of information !!

This really depends on the specifics of the Manager and Artist relationship. I've known managers who have remembered to buy birthday presents for their Artists' partner, have picked up their dry-cleaning, etc., etc. Likewise I've known managers who would not even be aware of whether their Artist has a partner (or has ever used a dry cleaner !!).