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The new trend in our country is to explore careers in art area to enable their students exploit their musical talents and abilities to properly inserted in the competitive music industry. To achieve these objectives there are two programs of study especially dedicated to musicians and managers, whose methodology is to “learn through experience.”

Being a musician or relating to the world of music in all its aspects, requires persons engaged in it certain qualifications, skills and vocation. In recent times, our country has seen strong growth of bands, musicians and managers looking to make a name in the national and international music scene.

For those who have already made the decision to follow the path of music, Dragonworks Studio conducted from April this year two programs of study, whose main objective will be to provide knowledge and tools necessary for those seeking to become professionals in all areas involving musical activity.

The first is “Theory and musical instrument”, which is aimed at musicians and people who want to specialize in the interpretation of musical instruments, through theoretical and practical classes. Read the rest of this entry »

The music is not in crisis. What is in crisis is business as CD sales. Digital music sales increasing at a rate of 40%.

Not the music that is in crisis, but the model of traditional record companies, record companies no longer provide value. There is a real paradigm shift. The value that could provide the record now resolves directly over the Internet. Consider the changes in the value chain:

Selection of music: Rather than select an artist by commercial criteria, as do the record, the social patterns of recommendation and selection expressed through music sites, social networks, blogs and more. select the musician. Production and disk recording: recorders have an acceptable cost and can record with the right quality. The need for the disk as hardware goes.

Sales and distribution: It is done in digital format, through the network. Marketing and Promotion: Artists through social networks maintain a direct relationship with their fans. Word of mouth, recommendation from friends, is the vehicle through which musicians are disclosed.

The premise is to break down barriers and find new patterns of consumption.

A clear example of this new model is the project Liflive through the orchestra L’Incontro Fortunato. This project seeks the public to be an active part in the process of musical, from passive spectator to active user. L’Incontro Fortunato is a classical orchestra whose repertoire is built around historicist criteria and a series of original instruments 200 years ago. The added value is generated by the values ??they seek to enact: breaking the unidirectionality of musical tradition. Read the rest of this entry »

Lady Gaga is a star who has built his career on the Internet and social media.

Lady Gaga has made intelligent use of new digital platforms, while continuing to leverage the influence of his discography. Not only interested in selling records, if not everything revolves around him and his tours, creating a visual theater about the music. Has developed a simple and catchy brand coincidentally with his audience, with a 360 degrees. Getting the music business begins to see social media as an ally for them. Constantly communicates with his supporters through social networks, especially Facebook and Twitter s. Has become a digital phenomenon.

Do not try to make great songs, seeks to create a full multimedia package, which involved the song, costumes, its manifestations, staging to create a complete and unique. Lady Gaga is described as “an oddball, a rebel, a lost soul in search of his companions.” Through his charisma and leadership projection projecting his personal history and involves his fans, with the ability to create an emotional commitment.

A new star is born, a new model for success. Fans of Lady Gaga have their music for free and legally on YouTube, which consolidates its image through music videos. But most digital sales come through iTunes purchases. A new star is born, a new model for success.

Internet and social networking has changed our communication habits. At the same time, some companies have ceased to give us a safe value. Internet can be found in another way, that is, the paradigm has changed. One of the industries in which the change in the value chain is lighter, it is in music. In the record companies, music is changing. Every day we find examples of musicians who perfectly understood the value that provides Internet and social networks. I will make three very different examples that reflect their authors have understood the power of new media and are taking advantage of this paradigm shift associated with it.

Plan B musician Carlos Jean

Jean Carlos Twitter defined as “producer, dj, remixer” trying to change forms for living making music. With great enthusiasm, eager to help. ” Plan B by Carlos Jean is a multimedia project with video, music, artists, social network, where users can contribute their talents in the form of voice, lyrics, instruments, etc., In a base monthly Carlos Jean leaves on the web. People can also participate by voting or sharing the tracks uploaded by users.

Thus getting produce and distribute music with philosophy 2.0.Video clip of the new single from the group Blink-182 Blink-182 is a band-origin pop-punk style. It consists of bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus, guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker.Have recovered from Youtube videos that had hung their fans and the fragments themselves have created the video clip for her new single, after eight years of not taking any. Read the rest of this entry »

Paco de Lucia is very clear: a musical profession is not for income or for fame. Following 50 years traveling the world stage of 24 albums recorded, 9 of them with Camarón de la Isla, the master of flamenco guitar playing is just for that pleasure he feels when he stands previously the public and get summon “duende”.

“Sometimes you have a longer nail or the acoustics of the theater is not as it should be, but when inspiration strikes and we began to enjoy, something magical happens, you feel that fleet, and that feeling, so difficult to define, there is drug that will compare “describes De Lucia, who returns to America after five years to offer a tour that will take you to 17 cities.

“I’m lonely and I hate the asphalt,” says De Lucia from his refuge in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where he has a private beach, books, family, and where he plays the guitar just to write, “not to warm the hand “Although the worm of conscience tells her she should do more.

The stop of De Lucia in Miami is tomorrow at 8 pm at the Fillmore at Jackie Gleason Theater, which will be accompanied by a band of experienced musicians, including the second guitar to his nephew, Antonio Sanchez, harmonica virtuoso Antonio Serrano, bassist and Cuban jazz musicians, Alain Perez, and David Duquende singers and dancer Jacqueline Farruco. Read the rest of this entry »