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Summary: Learn how to prepare for recording a music demo tape or CD in a studio to get a recording contract in this free online video clip.
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Jerimae Yoder Jerimae Yoder began his musical journey in Northern Indiana and began writing music at the age of 15. He decided to pursue a career in music after receiving ... read more
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Questions & AnswersHey! I'm Jerimae Yoder and I'm with Expert Village and I am going to talk a little bit about going into a professional studio to do your demo. Some of the things you want to remember when you are going in to the studio is that time is money. They are there to make money just like if you go to your job and you are doing your thing at your job you are there to make money. Be ready, be prepared, have your music down, have the crap rehearsed out of it and you are ready to go. Have all your band mates ready to go and know exactly where they are going and what they are doing and have a game plan of what they are going to do in the studio. How many songs you are going to do, what songs you are going to do, be ready vocally, be warmed up, get in there and knock it out in a couple of hours. Get to know your producer. If you don't know anybody in your area as far as recording, look through the phone book. Find some studios in the area. Get out to local gigs. Build some relationship with other musicians and start asking around about producers and studios in your area. You may find a really cool semi-professional studio that has some really good gear and has a really good engineer and producer that you won't spend that much. But if you get into places like LA and New York where they have these killer studios man, you will be paying a lot of money to get into the studio for just a couple of hours. Get to know musicians in your area, get to know other people that do recordings and ask them and see who their recording with and go check them out. Check out producers you know, do your research, talk with other people that have recorded with them, ask for references. Make sure that their style they have recorded in the past fits your style. You know a guy that does country all the time will probably give you a killer recording but it may not have the edge that you want as a rock band. You want to go to the studio you know, go in, check it out, talk to the producer, hang out with him for a little bit, maybe take him to lunch and just say hey, I want to get to know you if this is the guy you are narrowing it down to. Ask a lot of questions. Make sure you have a list of things you want to ask them about the studio and just be educated on the studio process. Go to your local book store and pick out books on recordings, home recoding and studio recording and just get educated on the subject matter even before you attempt to do that.
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